Debz 30th birthday Meal

On Thursday 29th July My (not so little anymore) sister Deborah turned 30 years old. To celebrate we went for a family meal out at The King's Highway

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They do Carvery there so I couldn't resist that with all the trimmings that come with it.

But before that we all decided to have starters. I went for the Philly Mushroomswhich were delicious!

Bret had Garlic Mushrooms and Bill decided she wouldn't have room for dessert if she had starter.

Bill had Gammon steak and Bret had a Rump steak for main. Of course my eyes were much too big for my belly and I was struggling to eat all the gorgeous food on my plate

Of course I did manage to fit in a dessert, Gorgeous Strawberry and White Chocolate Mousse. It was heavenly and very light.

Bret had the Chocolate Indulgence

and Debz had the Chocolate teaser

It was getting on for 10pm by the time we were all finished so we all said our Goodbyes as some of us had to be at work Friday morning.

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Carvery

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Nom Nom

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Keeping cool

My cool new room fan has finally arrived, typical now that all that hot weather has gone!

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Disappointing day out

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Every year our local park is the venue for the local community fun day. I have spent some great times there with the kids playing on the 'Prize every time' games, buying up the little home made cakes, watching band and dancing demonstrations, browsing bric-a-brac stalls and picking up info about local projects.

A couple of years Bret has played in the school band at the fun day and people would gather round with their ice creams and burgers to listen.

The last couple of years tho the event has gone down. There is only a handful of stalls, no cake stall, just 1 tombola stall, a bouncy castle and one of those inflatable bouncy slides.

The worst thing that makes me leave within 5 minutes is the music playing out of the tannoy. It's a family event so they should have pop music playing, you know happy family friendly tunes not pumping drum n bass that makes my heart thud through my chest TOTAL NO-NO!!!

I am really disappointed that within a couple of years this event will have disappeared altogether :(

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A trip down memory lane

Or in my case lack of memory lane.

When I was 18 I left home for the first time and moved into a flat in Ilkeston with my now long-term friend Brian. We were both working at the American Adventure at the time and we had quite a blast in those 6 months in that little flat.

Today I had to go on a little trip to Cotmanhay with my daughter Bill so once we'd been where we had to go I said I would like to go and find my old flat.

I had remembered the street but wasn't quite sure of the number so we walked along until I found it. Just to make sure, I texted Brian to see if he remembered the address and I was right.

Our Landlady lived in the big house at the top of the street and we had to go up there every month to take her the rent.

There was a Chip shop next door to us but I can't for the life of me remember it being there.

I can't even remember how the street looked. In my head it looks totally different than it actually does. This isn't because it is 20 years later as everything is exactly the same, there are no newer buildings and nothing has been knocked down I just can't remember it.

After we had taken some pics of the old place I had to find my way back into town which I totally failed at. We just kept walking until luckily we made it to Bath street. Ridiculously I don't remember what a steep hill Bath Street is - I should have stayed in Ilkeston, no wonder I was so thin when I lived there!

The last photo I took before we got on the bus was of the Ilkeston Scala. I can't believe its still there and they still queue outside for it to open for the evening show...

 

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