Now The Party's Over

Can't believe my little girl is one!! Can't believe we fitted so many people in to the house. In fact, in one room, as various babies were sleeping in other rooms. It felt a little like that scene from The Birds, having to tread very carefully indeed. The fear of stepping on someone else's offspring was omnipresent throughout the day. A sucessful party was had though. Not bad for someone who only got into this kid lark a year ago. Roll on party number 2. This is contrary to how I felt last Sunday however. The words "never again" left my lips more than once.

The next big occasion for the family Dunbarski is a big wedding bash Daaan Saaarff innit. We are leaving early doors for Londonshire with our friends Debbie and Jude in complementary first class, then onto Kent to the wedding of my oldest mate Hilary and her very lovely husband to be Tim. I am Maid of Honour, and sadly will be feeling like an old maid next to her two very young and very pretty nieces, Emmy and Yasmin. However, I forsee an amazing weekend and am looking forward to it with bells on. Originally I was to make chutney wedding favours for them, to have in wheelbarrows at the door, but the logistics of transporting 100 jars on the train was pretty inconceivable, so we gave up on that idea. In a moment of wine related intoxication, I suggested to make them my famous cake pops as favours. Thankfully they declined. It would certainly have given the guests a laugh, and would have filled in any awkward silences between strangers, as they 'guessed what the hell that thing on a stick is'.

The next big Mmm...nice event is going to be Out of the Blue, at the Dalmeny Drill hall, on 2nd July, and usually proves to be a success. Later in the month there is a Friends of the Earth sale in Morningside. the last one was a disaster for all concerned(except yours truly) in terms of organisation and advertising. I recently got a mail saying the organiser concerned has left and someone new taken her place, so it remains to be seen how that goes. I ahve also just been offered a place at the Sick Kids Christmas fair. It's fundamentaly wrong to be thinking about the C word at this time of year, but there is no escaping that it is the season for consumerism.
In that case, HO HO HO. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!