Saturday 19th April 08

Oh my gosh do I ache, I have muscles where I never knew I had muscles. My back aches, my bum hurts. Oh it hurts to sit down, and it hurts to get up. Everyone is waking up one-by-one and compares war wounds, I think mum is the worst off not only was her horse struggling up the hill, and he was nervous around the other horses especially wennies, he decided to get spooked going through the last gate and bashed mum’s knee against the gate bolt. There was blood and today it’s swollen and bruised.

What we need is a spa in the form of the wild pheasant in Llangollen. Boy was it good, we sweated in the sauna we melted in the steam room and we floated on bubbles in the four hydra pools, oh it was heaven, oh yes, aches did go. However it did make me sleepy when having my haircut. We had a quick drink in the pub before going back to change for the meal.

I have to say I was a little disappointed by the meal (at the white waters Hotel) it just seemed a little over priced for what was served up (and it wasn’t busy when we served so no excuses for keeping food warm) everyone else seemed quite happy, I don’t know how I managed to order it but I had the poached salmon on a potato cake served next to a poached egg on a fennel bulb smothered in a sauce that well, looked and tasted like melted margarine (not even butter) my taste buds couldn’t quite grasp the whole concept. Luckily for me Jo swapped her duck du’orange which was a lot nicer, but extremely chunky.

We had lots of wine, my mad family had organised the staff to bring out a Hedgehog cake and all sang Happy Birthday. Muchio blush did I.

We all went home to drink some celebration drink which was too sweet for almost everyone except me so I drank most of it, luckily I did cos it got me through the worse film ever (sorry Will) I can’t even remember what it was called. Black tower/death tower/black death.

Greg

Will

Wenny