Party time

Pouring with rain this morning, when they buyer's surveyor came around to check out the house. He stood peering at the house from the back garden and the front in his waterproofs. When he came in I made him a cup of coffee, and then he went around banging on the walls and peering the kind of places that nobody wants to be looked at. An ominous business.

Jade down to see Sam and come to the party this afternoon.

Once Lorraine got home, she and I jumped in a cab and began setting up.  I forgot a special adaptor for the music, which Sam was able to bring, Nick arrived and he worked out how to plug amplifiers into the desk there. There were strange decorations letters that you blow into with a straw to inflate, but poking the straw in was the devil's own work. Finally able to plug my iPhone in for music, but then hadn't downloaded the playlist and then couldn't get onto the wifi etc. etc. However it all worked out, the food and venue was great and once I had correctly communicated that we needed to buy drinks in the bar upstairs, all was well.

Nick, Richard and Silvana provided Jazztastique grooves as a background, and guests arrived aplenty. Sam and Jade, Beth and James were there, plus old pals like Kate and Ian, all the way from the forest of Dean, Anton, Steve Cartwright, Guy and Tim, Wayne, Catherine and Tanya, Rosie and Innis, Jess and Andrew, Penny and Steve, Robin and Nick glassmates like Rick, Frances, Yvonne and Brian, Sally and Marek,  A posse of Lorraine's headteacher pals plus friends from her school including the two Sarahs from school Sarah H with Dan and their daughters Faith and Daisy. I was also delighted to see Max and Michel and Pat who'd come down for the evening too. A highly enjoyable evening all round. Lots of talking going on, and I like seeing groups of friends cross pollinating. Most importantly Lorraine had a brilliant time -- and the disappointment of having covid on her birthday was washed away. 

We climbed happily into a cab after midnight with Sam and Jade, and we were home in a trice.