bigfoodiemama

Well,what a week ! It started on Monday (as most weeks do !)when I attended my first Ladies Lunch. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this phenomenon, basically, it consists of about 150 very well dressed women of age 35 to 80, gathering in a posh location at 12.00 midday. Here they are plied with bubbly and wine, until they totter to their table for lunch, followed by some musical entertainment....last year Johnnie Logan , this year an Elvis impersonator...well there is a recession on !I was very appropriately dressed in a little green number ( British Racing Green, VROOM, VROOM) and an extremely high pair of heels, I had knicked from the Mad One. These very expensive shoes had bright red soles, but were not Laboutins....of course, everyone would have thought they were...fine by me ! I can't really say it was my scene, but at least now I have been so can talk about it. And talk about it I did the following night, when I had dinner with 3 friends who will be familiar to my re...

As I sit her at 7.30 Sunday evening I am wondering what made this such a good weekend. Then I realised it was because we did not have anything in particular to do, no obligation to anyone, so we got to relax (as much as you can with two small boys) Friday after work we had visited the Teach Jack gang for cups of tea, gossip and playing in their Beverley Hills style playhouse. Eldest son pushed the pram while his "wife" tended to the baby whilst youngest son polished off his first jammy dodger with a sticky smile.I had the lie in Saturday morning...a great start to any weekend and really all we achieved that day was to invite around two of the boys favourite cousins and listen to the laughter and squeals of delight that brought.BMM joined us for tea and then it was the heaven of two hours of X Factor. GASP enjoyed the Sunday lie in and after mass we headed off to MIL's house for a cuppa, a chat, a crawl and Wii session.After a hurried lunch I declared we were off to the pl...