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Pen & Jon's Wedding - The UK Leg

Awwwwwww it was just like the wedding all over again! Not as many piccies this time tho - I was dancing too much!!! I think there may be some very embarrassing ones of Claire and I doing batman impressions with our dresses!!!!! They should just be grateful I didn't do the 'Peter Kay' thing that little kids do at weddings - which is running to get up some speed and then sliding along on my knees! Anyway....I wasn't the only one doing some groovy dancing....see the next post for the 'Dad Dance' video.

Gemma & Andy's wedding

We were totally chuffed to be invited to G&A's evening do! It was at Oakwell Hall in Gomersal - the wedding was in the house and then the party was in a fab barn in the grounds. Dan's sis Marina was a bridesmaid - loads of drunken dancing pics here ----> G&A's wedding pictures
They're having their honeymoon in the states at the moment - hope they're having a fabby time.

More Indian food

We've been going a bit mad recently, using the Indian Food Made Easy book which Janie bought for us. Even to the extent that we've made chapattis, chutney, and of course LOADS of the curries. We have a couple which are emerging as firm favorites; one from the book, and one which was given to us by a colleague of Dan's wife. The chapattis must be the easiest thing to make (I had no idea!) and we've made them 4 times now...yes in the one week! You can see them puffing up in the pan in the picture.....fab! The 1st time we made them, we also did a chicken curry (it was supposed to be lamb in the book but we did a L&D variation!) and a green minty chutney which was really superb. Hopefully you can see from the piccies how authentic it all looks!
Since then we've done a couple of variations with chicken thighs and also with squash & cauliflower which make fab curries! IMO!

25th Wedding Anniversary

25 years ago tomorrow (18th) Janie and I were beautiful bridesmaids at the wedding of our good friends Manda & Richard. It was the 1st time we'd been bridesmaids and it was SOOOOO exciting. We were in very pretty little white dresses with pink flowers on. Pink flowers in our hair and in our bouquets (all silk, beautiful) Proper bridesmaidey stuff. A couple of weeks ago when we were with M&D for the 40th Wedding celebrations, we were talking about the wedding - and we dug out the dresses. Amazingly Janey could still get into hers (from she was 10 years old!!!) My left boob wouldn't have fitted into mine, but Mary B pinned it onto the front of my frock so it *looked* like I was wearing it. We were all hysterical! They got flowers from the vase and we held them like a bouquet, and took piccies. Anyway, as all the laughing and joking ensued, we thought wouldn't it be a nice thing to do to send Manda and Richard a card with a piccie of their beautiful bridesmaids on, m25 years later. So, that was my task on Saturday morning. I went to WH Smith and bought card and 'stuff' for card making. Very nice indeed....here is the finished result.....!
I took the pics on my phone so they're not mega clear but you get the gist! The original pic is here. Scary stuff!

Not many blogs last week - Sorry Ruth!

Apologies for not writing much over the last week or so - we had such a lot on the week before (hence all the posts) and this week it's been quite chaotic at work for both of us so neither of us has felt like logging on again once we've got home! But we have done a few bits over the weekend - blog entries to follow for them!

With Pavarotti gone, how about this guy?

Nice BBQ

We had a lovely tea last night - a BBQ and Pimms! I bought some of the very nice burgers from Sainblobs which are extremely good. We also made 'camping potatoes' which are spuds cooked in a pan of water first and then fried off to make them nice and golden. We finished them off on the BBQ too which always makes me feel like they're proper 'outdoor food'!

Air Guitar

Watched a mad film last night called air guitar nation !

Some mad people out there, but i reckon that years ago if leif had entered he would have won it hands down!

See the trailer for the film below

Indian Cooking

Found a great website for spices and things called spicesofindia that we are going to use for curries etc.

Have a look around and see what you think., Quick service and loads of stuff.