Had a lovely weekend, was Dave and Justin’s birthday on Friday (how weird is it that they were born the same year, same day?).
On Friday I went straight from work to The Garrat, which I’d not been to before but was actually pleasantly surprised by. This via meeting Kate who’d spent the day with her friend Helen who’s going to be moving up to Manchester, as a result Kate didn’t have time to leave the car at home and had to park near the train station somewhere (a notoriously dodgy area but the car was fine the next morning!). We managed to meet up with Helen who was just up for a quick visit briefly later on in the night).
At the Garrat where Dave was drinking with work colleagues, Rob turned up with his brother Joanathon which was somewhat unexpected. Un expected possibly as we’d not seen him ages so it was all a little awkward.
So off we went for the meal at Cafe Rouge, which was a slight disaster. Kate and I don’t seem to have the best luck in restaurants, they’d got mine wrong so I sent it back and had to wait an age for it to come back out while Kate’s Caesar Salad arrived after everybody else had finished (but still slightly before mine). So we had a bit of an argument with the waitress who in her French way apologised and tried to explain it wasn’t her fault but everyone else agreed with us, who else’s fault could it be?!
But all was well once we presented Dave with his birthday cake which Kate had made – it was a pimped Fondant Fancy which we know Dave is partial too and there was enough to go round for 11 of us and some spare for him to take home.
We then went on to the Northern Quarter and the expensive drinks that entails at Trof, meeting up with Helen in the superiour, cheaper & better music at Odd.
On Saturday Kate and I had a nice day in after venturing out early to fetch the car, grab food for the day and nursed hangovers watching TV & Films on the Sofa.
Sunday we had decided on Friday we’d go for what’s fast becoming a traditional roast. We’ve yet to set a traditional venue but this week it was The Didsbury so we picked up Justin from his place in Withington and sat outside all afternoon having met up with Dave, his girlfriend Claire, Zoe and her cousin Becky plus her boyfriend Rob.
We went back to Justin’s flat afterwards which we hadn’t been to before and was very nice and talked til very late with him and his house mates Fry, Kane & Lydia.
So all in all a good weekend. Lots of talking, laughing & lots of drinking
Friday night was a good night
It’s a shame you felt it awkward through not seen me in a while, I can’t say the feeling was mutual.