wednesday 07th Oct

It was yet another rainy morning when i came down so the dogs lost out on another walk and had to content themselves with running around the garden and barking at every little thing they could. I went online and did some bits and ant finally surfaced. Ant gave Ian a call to wish him good luck with his interview, and i chatted to him for a while. Ant had read yesterdays blog so decreed that tonight we would have a games night, something to look forward to. We then both had baths and got ourselves ready properly.
We decided to get the cake iced and decorated, it didn't end up looking as good as i had imagined but it was ok, i bought some cute sugar animals to give it a quasi farmville look but now it looks more like a cake for a baby than for a thirty six year old man. At midday the postwonam arrived with a package and a birthday card, Feral Future by Tim Low was in the package, which i look forward to reading, and a card from Harry and Debbie.
After lunch we decided to head in to town to check the bank and get some little bits to make up the buffet on Friday night, we stopped in to say hello to Marion and had a mooch round Lidl and Aldi, where i found an automatic tin opener that i knew David and Mark were looking for so i got that and we headed up to their house to present them with it, we stayed for some time and chatted over coffee.
When we got home we realized the chicken we were going to make curry with still hadn't defrosted so that went in the fridge for another day and we had a quandary about what we would do for dinner, i was not really hungry so could not be bothered deciding so we left it. We had about an hour reading before the Simpsons, in the middle of which the phone rang, we left it to go to answering machine, it was Maggie. Once the Simpsons were over i listened to the message, Maggie was saying the bowling alley we had hoped to go to on Thursday night was closed for refurbishment so we would not be able to go unless she found another one. I phoned her back to the joyous news she had located another one in Abbeville and everything was organized and we would be picked up just after six thirty.
Finally we made a start on games night, i dug several of our large stash of board games out of the cupboard and set them up on the table, ant decided he wanted to start with Monopoly, so that is what we did, we had a couple of bottles of wine and had a great night, Pizzas, originally destined for the buffet, were cooked. I won at Monopoly, after a bit of a financial crisis early in the game which gave ant an air of superiority until i bankrupted him. We then played Masterquiz, similar to Trivial Pursuits but very hard questions, ant won the first game and then went on to win the second, just goes to show who has the brains in this house, even if they are hidden under a bushel!! After several hours of game play and three bottles of wine between us we decided to call it a night, we brought the dogs up with us went to sleep en famile.