Tinsel Time......

 
Another festive dinner, this time with my Wednesday gang although we had to do it on Tuesday. We were at The Orwell Hotel in Felixstowe on friendM's highest recommendation but I thought both the service and the food were not as good as we'd had elsewhere. 

The hotel has recently been taken over by a new company and the renovations inside look lovely. They are a Dubai based investment company and for some reason they have installed a mechanical elephant in front of the building. 

Apparently rubbing his trunk brings good luck, so friendM did, it also made him pee hahaha. 

On a not good subject Son didn't pop over to see us last weekend as he is full of head cold, this got worse and turned into a chest infected and he is now on antibiotics and steroids. Fiancé is unfortunately suffering the same developing a few days behind. The most disappointing thing is for a whole year they have planned and booked a four week tour of Australia and New Zealand and they should have flown out yesterday, Friday 19th! Disappointments, logistics and huge costs involved and their travel agent has moved their first flight to Monday 22nd missing out Sydney and flying direct to Brisbane. Daughter has managed to rearrange Monday so she can still take them to Heathrow. Now I'm keeping everything crossed they are both well enough for Monday and survive long haul which is exhausting anyway. 

Then, as Daughter wasn't driving to Heathrow on Friday Hubby offered to wash her car so she came over with R and it gave us our only opportunity to discuss our Christmas day menu. Daughter has a Tesco delivery slot booked for Monday so we added stuff to that after what we already had between us. 

So this time next week I can tell you all about our Christmas day and boxing day and all that's left for me to say is