Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Xmas meal

As I mentioned in my last post, it's was our office's Xmas meal last night. We went to Cafe Rouge in Sheffield and had the 3 course Christmas meal. This is what I had:

Starter:
Soupe D’Hiver
A rich, honey roast parsnip and sweet potato soup

Main:
Dinde Rôtie de Noël
Roast turkey with a caramelised onion, chestnut & sage stuffing served with bacon wrapped sausages, Winter vegetables and roast potatoes

Dessert:
Tartelette aux Cerises
Warm griotte cherry & almond tart served with crème fraîche


It was all very nice, and I would recommend the place. The service was good and the price was excellent value for money.

This year we took part in Secret Santa, we were all told to buy something amusing and silly with the budget of £2.50. Secret Santa bought me a childrens shape ball, which is a large ball with different shapes cut out of it and you have to slot the correct coloured shapes through the correct shape hole. This proved hours of fun when highly toxicated.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

D-Day Part 2

As from the title, and for people who are familiar with my blog, D-Day stands for Driving test day. Yes today I sat my driving test for the 2nd time, and I passed, big cheer for me Yippee!!!! I'm very happy about it and with only 6 days left till Xmas its a great present. I only got 2 minors, which is really good and the instructor said it was a great drive. I think what made it better is that I knew what to expect and wasn't at nervous this time round.

I decided to book the whole day off work, so I can finish off my Xmas shopping, and also get ready for tonight, as it's my works Christmas meal and silly secret Santa exchange. I will tell you all about it later.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Holiday's are coming, holiday's are coming etc etc

Christmas is only just round the corner, Yippeee!! I love christmas, it is really the only time of year that I can be a kid again and resaonably get away with it.

From past experience I do tend to leave the t'old xmas pressie shopping till the last minute, but this year both myself and my partner have started early and have just about got all those all inportant presents, big pat on the back for me. But in every family there is the one person that is a knightmare when it comes to buying for, this person in my family is my Grandad, at least when my Nan was alive I could get ideas from her, but sadly now this is not the case and my mum is in the same boat as me, we both do not know what to buy him. Every year I seem to buy him the same things, Gilette razor blades and shaving stuff, now this is all and well for about 2 years running but when it is both xmas and b'day I can imagine that you get a bit bored with the same stuff. So if you have any ideas what to get a 76 year old male suggestions please.

My partner and I always have a limit on how much we are spending on each other and this year set that limit of £100. I have gone over by £31 and I think my partner has gone over quite a bit. But I find this annoying that now this makes me feel that I should be spending more, so that he has more presents. But then it makes me feel that he should have stuck to the orginal plan. Oh well it just means I get more pressies. Yeah!!! But this didn't take into account the dilema of the Xbox 360. My partner is a techie and loves his gadgets, this is an expensive hobby, but don't really mind too much as my hobbies are quite expensive in their own right. But on his xmas list was an Xbox 360. I debated this for some weeks and decided against it as we really couldn't afford it, but after some deliberation I crummbled under pressure, and off we went to our shopping centre and bought aformentioned xbox. This is all and well, but my partner then had to get it out of the box and set it all up, just to make sure it worked. I wanted to wrap it up for xmas, but there isn't really the point now as it is in pride of place next to the tv. So now the money spent on my partner has ballooned over the said amount of £100. But I don't expect him to spend a further £300 on me as we really can't afford that.