A very Red letter day

A red letter day today, although I am sitting here in my pjs, unable to move now.

I think my stomach has expanded to the maximum safety limit, anymore stretch and I think it's possible that people living in Cressing could covered in Jerk chicken, smoked eel or rock oysters when my tummy blows... Mmmmm!
Julie, Derek and I have just come home from a most magnificent feast at Baumanns Brasserie in Coggeshall, which him with rugged looks and flicky dark hair owns.
We now all have round little belly's from eating so much rich, but gorgeous food.

I usually play it safe and eat some sort of meat and veg, but not tonight, I wanted to try and be adventurous for once. Tapas including smoked eel, followed by sauteed rock oysters, jerk chicken with dirty rice and peas and then the most fab dessert... mini toffee apple and iced apple parfait. Bugger me, I've died and gone to heaven! Didn't stop there as we had homemade fudge and chocolate liqueur truffles with our coffee and as Julie doesn't like dark chocolate, I had hers... I know... I'm a piggie!

I wore my new posh dress that Reni recommended me to buy on our last shopping trip and it felt so good looking like a grown up woman for a change. The fact that two Saturdays ago, I looked half dead and tonight I felt all sparkling was such a boost, as I forgot I was ill while we were there.
Although we did get on to the subject of funerals after Julie heard 'Cherish' being played through the restaurant sound system. I decided on the song from the 'Sound of Music' as my swan song, 'So long, farewell' and have everyone singing as they crowd surf my coffin around the church... always fancied being crowd surfed at a concert and as the old song goes, 'It's my party and I'll cry/crowd surf if I want to!'

Also this morning I had a visit from my little Sam and Jean. It is always a treat to see them, but seeing Sam was a bonus as she had driven solo to mine from Chelmsford. A12, country lanes and all in the rain as she pointed out! The fact she was hyper and swearing like a trooper when she got to my bungalow was quite hilarious!
'Now I know you you swear so much' she said in earnest!
It was so nice to see her and within minutes we were bouncing off of each other just like we had done for the past 11 years. By the time Jean got to mine, she had calmed down a bit as that first 20mins, she looked like she had drank three espressos straight off!


Thank you to everyone involved in my day today for making me feel normal again. What would I do without you all.

Lots of love Debbie x