Kim, Cliff and I squeezed into the car and hotfooted it down to Southampton last night for Nicky’s 40th celebration (well, one of them, anyway). We quickly realised that Andy had omitted to tell us it was a hat party, but that was probably a good thing!
Clive and Nat, on the other hand, arrived in their excellent hats to a dark & empty house, A&N having moved from it some five or six years ago! That may not have been such an issue had they not walked there from the hotel at the bottom of the road that the party was in… Nat was in an evil mood, as you can clearly see.
Kim & Nat sat under the patio heater all night as the party goers ebbed and flowed to them, while the boys took up residence in the kitchen doing much the same, albeit much nearer to the pavlova, strawberry cheesecake and chocolate tart.
An excellent evening had by all, rounded off by a post-midnight drive back along the coast… with Cliff trumping that by driving onwards from our place at about 2am!
Thanks Andy & Nicky!