The weekend got off to a good start with my boss giving me a pay rise on Friday - woohoo. Kinda funny coz Toni was telling me that she got a pay rise and I realised that I hadn't had one in a while. She told me to ask for one but I was too chicken. Turned out I didn't need to anyway!
I decided that Q and I should go out for dinner to celebrate and because we never eat out just the two of us. I felt like something casual so we went to the Londoner. Food wasn't too bad but it was nice spending some "quality" time together.
Saturday we were up early to get the groceries and to tidy up a little before our guests (Chris and Ellie) arrived. They arrived mid-morning and we hung around for a bit then decided to head off to The Base. We wandered around there for a few hours, managed to spend a bit of money, had some lunch then went home.
Q and I had planned a fancy meal, so when we got home I proceeded to make dessert. Well what a fiasco. I had picked up a recipe sheet from the supermarket for Chocolate and Scorched Almond Decadence, and mistake #1 was I didn't read the instructions properly and put all the chocolate in the base when I should have saved some of it for the topping, and I neglected to see the bit about adding butter. Anyway Ellie managed to save it and we moved on to the next step. We followed the directions and made this egg and sugar concoction. We then realised that nowhere in the instructions did it say what to do with the egg and sugar mix. So we improvised and mixed it in with the base mixture. The recipe then gave us instructions to make the topping and stated to use the remaining butter, yet nowhere did it say how much of the butter we should have used in the first step so we used the whole lot. So we added a bit of butter and hoped for the best. As it turned out the dish was so incredibly delicious!! But the company that produced the recipe will be getting a very unpleasant letter from me and perhaps a demand for some sort of compensation!
It appears that this was the only photo I took of it. Think by the time we got round to eating it I was too drunk to care. And yeah, it's pretty much all chocolate.
Now moving on to Q's main - beef fillet with creamed spinach and truffle french fries (minus the truffle oil). The meal was sooooo damned good! I am so proud of my little Quentin. Turns out he has bit of a passion for cooking. Who would've thought!
On Sunday we headed off to the Hamilton Gardens. I haven't been there in many years. The highlight of the trip was seeing this group of people dressed up in helmets with homemade shields and weapons. We saw them hanging out in the carpark so we hung around waiting to see what they were doing. They walked, sorry marched, over to a field where some people who were dressed differently went to the top of the hill while the rest of them remained at the bottom. Then the guys at the bottom "attacked" the guys at the top and had bit of a battle. We were sitting there watching this just pissing ourselves laughing! What friggin weirdos!!!!! I'll get some photos from Ellie to put on here. It was VERY entertaining! From there we went into town, had bit of a look round then went home.
Today hasn't been very productive. I finally managed to get the firewood out of the rain and into a little shed thing. And thats about it.
