Wine and then Whine !

So I get a text from JJ yesterday, saying that she has a serious amount of fresh pasta that needs cooking, and that diner was needed at number 9 ( that is my apartment ). She would like to bring it over and cook up a storm with all the ingredients that are well past their " sell by dates ", a fabulous trick we had when we shared " digs " together, was to throw it all into the hotpot and make a stew ! Always turned out fantastically well and we would revel in the fact that we had saved a buck by using the hotpot ! - God , I think we both miss those days !!! But, as life throws its inexplicable hurdles at you, you just get on with it, and as my good friend Jo says " deal with it "

She arrives very flustered as on leaving home, realises that Mike has taken the car to rugby practice, and she now has to take public transport ! Yes PUBLIC transport as in one stop on the tube - HELLO
- not even during peak time !!! Ma'daaaam is NOT used to this. But has no option !! En route I get a text to say that she has invited the Yank, and that Mike will join us later - after practice.

We catch up on all the ag...... Prior to anybody arriving, BUT, how does one do that ?............ First, you pour yourself a large glass of PG ( Pinot Gricio ), then all the ag flows !!! How do you cook ?........ Secondly you pour yourself a second large glass of PG, to get the culinary skills going ! All the while Jeeves hovering in the background waiting in anticipation for dishes to wash !

By the time diner is cooked, many a PG, consumed and life is once again beautiful !!!!,  we have sorted out the Syria shit, the monetary state of the world etc etc etc - oh how great to re-create old times in my pad as apposed to being in 97 ! My friend, flat mate, and possibly the one person that knows me best is her ol' self and happy to be utilising what is available to cook with - no le crouset pans here !!! Basic copper bottomed pots will just have to do.

Jeeves, still hovering, and is most concerned about the fact that guests need to be served a dessert, in true Romanian fashion, has whispered to me on two occasions that there are not enough bowls to serve the ice-cream !!! He is most indignant when I say to him, well we will just have to put the ice-cream in the centre of the room, and all eat out the tub ! Funny how things pan out in life - I cannot, and will not, sweat the small stuff - if they are friends, they would eat out the tub ! Agreed ?

As life takes it........ Nobody wanted dessert, coz, nobody was offered it - that double clotted cream, ice-cream is ear marked for Tom, anyway !! So, let's have another PG.........

By 11:30, I tell all to please go home...... My 4 x4 has becomes an 8 x 8, speech is a little slurry, and the hoist seems to be a bit like the bungee jump off the Vic Falls bridge ! I ask Jeeves to put me to bed. As servants do he obliges, positions me correctly, gives me all the gadgets to boot, switches off the light and says " see you at 6 " I slide gently into lala land.

6am Comes far to quickly !!!!! The Jeeve's have been given STRICT instructions that there is absolutely no deviation from the morning regime ! Under NO circumstances are we to alter the morning schedule that I have put into place.

I ' buy' myself 1 hour - Jeeves long faced and unimpressed says he will allow me until 7 to gather any kind of normal senblance and that is IT ! At 7, there is NO abating - Jeeves is there to start the day, readying me for so called work !

I feel like shit ! Excersizes begin, legs won't bend, spasms uncontrollable, and absolutely no sympathy from Jeeves ! We have a schedule now and I was lucky enough to buy an extra hour of sleep. That's it !! Fare play to him, with lots of whinging and whining, morning excersises, completed and the regime continues ! Me like a bear with a sore head - looking for any excuse to bellow at him ! By now the double up has arrived, and everything runs smoothly, much to my horror !! Ready by 8am !!!

Note to self - PG in moderate amounts, and when JJ says she is coming for din's, make sure she is gone by 9 !!

As always,  be greatfull for what we have, be it family, friends, health or wealth. Nothing can go with us.. And remember that nothing is everything !

Love ya

G.