Christmas Dinner Down The Pan

After the late night last night it's a bit of struggle to get out of bed fairly early, load the car and head off to Wales. But, after a shower and some food I'm fit to go, and it doesn't take much persuasion to get Phil in the car either even though he's tired after his big night out.

The trip to Wales was good, no traffic problems, and we make it to my parents in plenty of time to help erect my parents new bed (they've got a new bedstead and one of these fancy space age matress, which from first impressions seems pretty comfy) and to also decorate their Christmas tree. It's quite sentimental getting out all the old decorations, which includes a string of bells that I made when I was 2, which despite being made of egg box cups, tin foil and wool have stood the test of time pretty well - I can see however that my artistic ability hasn't progressed much from those early experimentation's with glue and scissors :)

We then get ready to go out and head over to the restaurant that my Mum has booked for her office do. The food was alright, but I'm reserving judgement on the company (excluding my immediate family and Phil) - I mean I can be as course as the next person, but at least I can do it with some witty intellect rather than the tact of a neanderthal with limited diction.

Anyway, with the meal over and done with we head home and its not long before we're in bed and fast asleep.

And it takes about 2 hours after that when I realise that something I've eaten wasn't all it cracked up to be, and 2 hours after that I realise that it isn't just a passing moment of intestinal tract failure, I really have eaten something dodgy, and consequently I'm up and down all night visiting the bog. I am so desperate in fact to try and resolve the issue I subject myself to taking tablets which are 4 years out of date in the vague hope they might have a smidgen of active ingredient left. They didn't.

Posted by Abi on the December 17, 2005 11:25 PM

sjon at December 21, 2005 7:04 AM