Firstly a very Happy Birthday to Dolly. Hope you have a great day and that you and FP have a fab time at the Rotherwick Crop (even if you won't send me any aubergine bake and courgette fritters). Also while I remember, the same to Pauline who is celebrating her 60th birthday today and a very Happy Birthday to Jen for tomorrow.
Well the weather WAS pretty awful yesterday - mum was right about the warnings. It took two attempts to get round the corner into Whitehall at lunchtime because of the gusting wind, and although there was little damage (in our area at least) the traffic was absymal going home and ended up taking 3 hours! At least I had been fortified by a few large glasses of red wine and a lovely Trifolata pizza from Pizza Express. The pizza is one of their new menu items and is well worth checking out, especially if you're a mushroom nut like me. It is a mixture of 5 types of mushrooms - porcini, portobello, shitake, oyster and closed cup - and also features smoked mozzarella and rosemary all finished with a drizzle of white truffle oil ... completely divine!
A relatively quiet evening followed with a drink at the pub with Andrew. Whilst there I heard that Michael's father had died that evening, quite unexpectedly. He was in obviously in shock, but the weather was too bad for him to travel to see his stepmother - mind you probably wouldn't have been a good idea anyway in his condition.
This morning the weather had improved significantly, and although there was still a bit of wind, it was nowhere near as bad as yesterday. Now there appears to be no breeze at all, although I think the next thing is a drop in temperature in readiness for snow.
Tonight is a trip to the Prince of Wales theatre to see 'Mamma Mia' with Lynne, Andrea, Tina, Odette, Chris and Maureen (Kay was supposed to come but she dropped out this morning). We booked the trip towards the end of last year - one of those theatre/hotel special deals. The whole organisation thing has been a bit fraught and to be honest I no longer really want to go, but having paid the money I can't afford to just write it off. I am sure that once I am at the theatre everything will be great, but not feeling particularly sociable today (slight understatement) and am a bit prickly and ultra stressed so going to have to try pretty hard not to lose my temper with anyone (perhaps I better just not talk to anyone!). The hotel is the Thistle City Barbican so we have a bit of a trek after the show, but hopefully we'll be getting a taxi rather than trying to deal with the problems on the Tube (and in normal fashion all the lines that we need are either closed or severely delayed). I really hope that tomorrow I'll be reporting what a fantastic night we all had. I suppose at least one positive point is that I'm not working at the pub tomorrow!
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