Friends Reunion

Dick and Sally Sutton invited Dave and Margaret Thompson and Chris and myself to their new bungalow in Costock, Nottinghamshire for the weekend.

This was a mini-version of a reunion of some of the people who holidayed together 42 years ago. We have regular reunions, in fact there have been as many as TWO since 1967

One notable non-attendee was John Bricher (and Helen) who made some lame excuse for not joining us. Can't remember exactly what the excuse was but Chris and I made an effort and travelled all the way from Leicester which is 20 miles away and Dave and Marg were heroes for driving 200 miles. (For those not privy to the details, John and Helen live in Adelaide, Australia).

We had lunch in the excellent local pub, the 'Generous Briton' . The lunch was notable for the violent dispensation of diet coke.... I'm saying no more......

An excellent grand buffet in the evening was accompanied by much conversation.

Dick's Laptop wouldn't connect wirelessly

Ater many hours and no sleep Mike managed to fix it

Saturday

Someone threw a jam butty at Mike ... I'm not saying whom

It was showery and windy but we braved the elements and looked around the Trent Lock River Trent / Canals junction.

We then went to Trent Lock Golf Club, had a few drinks and then hit 100 balls with various degrees of success.

Mike missed a crucial turn torwards Costock and was somewhat late in arriving at Sally & Dick's.

(Whilst all the above was occurring, Leicester Tigers were winning the Cup, by beating London Irish by 10-9)

On Saturday evening, we went to an Indian Restaurant in Keyworth. There was a vast amount of food, sometimes not the same as expected. For example the Begam Behar was like a Tandoori Chicken Masala and Sally's chicken Pasanda was a very tomoto based dish, unlike any Pasanda we have ever seen or tasted.

After post-prandial drinks back at Sally & Dick's we retired to (bunk) beds.

Chris and I had to leave early because Mike had arranged to take Keith Kenyon to Mallory Park to see motorcycle racing.

Before we arrived home, Maggie 'phoned to say that Keith had been and was unwell and wouldn't be able to go to Mallory.

All-in-all an excellent weekend, the only missing bits were John and Helen.

John did email and offer to buy his round!