Celebrating

With the room finished, the dining table ready and the cooker and hob available we were ready by Wednesday night for a little celebration. This was to be Sparks's last night on the full-time project, off boating at lunchtime tomorrow as well as being Mum and Dad's first night of cooking supper indoors. Mum had been banished to Silverwoods for the week of the plastering so was unable to cook her brother's special Birthday meal on the correct day (the Wednesday mid-plastering). She owed him one so, as a Thank You for all his hard work and as a belated Birthday treat she would cook him the menu of his choice which was steak with mushrooms, baked potatoes and sour cream and whole sweetcorn, to which Mum added roasted whole garlic. Dessert was to be cheese-board including one of the few good Irish cheeses, Cashel Blue (a bit like milder creamier Danish Blue). This was arranged for about 8:30 pm to give the troops plenty of time to complete the day's work getting doors hung, varnishing done, the shower sorted and so on. Naturally there was a bottle or two of red and, with perfect timing, Uncle MAC had delivered a bottle of Moet to replace a previous one consumed at first move-in. You'll forgive me if I don't dress for Dinner? Deefs