So after a very sad tuna nicoise and Morpheus's special of linguine with pesto sauce with pine nuts we left to what I thought would be home...oh no.  It was suggested by the hubby to POP in to 'Slims' and see our friend J.  J was in a fowl mood, his soda fountain people had fucked up the system so he couldn't use his squishy "spurt the soda in, at an amazing speed" thingy, so he was mad because he had to go out and buy a whole load of soda bottles and then pour it manually without the squishy gun thing.  Get over it, I here you all say, but this is J, and like me he has absolutely NO TIME WHATSOEVER for incompetent dicks who can't get things right, so I understand his madness......

The we left there and rolled over to the Barrow Pub to see Shauna and got zonked, completely and utterly zonked, well I did, at least Morpheus went home at 4, whereas I stayed and chatted with Shauna and this mad guy called Andrew who was a blast actually, but definitely had issues with his late father, shame he can't tell him to his face.

So that was last night and today is today.  Didn't make the 9:32 out to the summer house, or the 10:32, in fact we didn't arrive here until 6.  This is very annoying to me as a whole day of sunning oneself has been missed. However Morpheus didn't go into work, just pretended to work at home, and so we travelled out here together which was great, because he was definitely in a "I love my wife to bits" mood, which is always good.

So as the heading states, my fabulous girlfriend Miss Kensington joined us this evening, although it was later than expected and she did get terribly lost once she got off the ferry, then again she's always been a bit dippy like that.  I must say though, she IS the funniest woman I know, she's the sort of person that makes your life purely with her facial expressions before she even gets to her punch lines.

Also our other friends Carl and Sumiko turned up around the same time, they had ALSO got lost, but it turned out that they were on the same ferry as Miss Kensington (she knows Carl as well), they hadn't seen each other and then C and S had got off at nasty Ocean Bay Park INSTEAD of Seaview.  Good god all these people have got degrees, what is wrong with them!!

So we eventually all settled, had some wine (I started on tea after last night) and 'chewed the cud', whilst he man hubby Morpheus was outside burning the chicken and therefore renaming it "blackened chicken".  Of course it was my fault because he started to make the salad, god knows why as I always make the salads because my salads are THE BEST in the world (see below).  He was trying to do everything at once, because he's a big baby, and then I got "the face" because "I should of known, not waited to be asked to help"...PLEASE!!!

So, I hear off a certain friend of mine than another certain of friend of mine cut her cats whiskers off when she was a little girl, hid them in her big sister's knicker draw, watched the cat bang into everything because it's balance was off and then watch while her sister got told off for cutting the cats whiskers off.  I also happen to know that after all these years this particular friend of mine STILL hasn't told her mother the truth...what a witch!!  Not sure what happened to the cat, its' probably dead by now....

Another story that I remember from the past is my from one of my bestest friends in Manc, who as a child went on a school trip to Jodrell Bank (cockney slang for wank) which is a place that teachers like to take their classes to view one of the largest radio telescopes in Europe.  Anyway she took her camera to record the "very interesting Jodrell Bank telescope"...heellloo, realised that this was boring and then turned her attention to instead photographing a tour of disabled mentally retarded people in wheelchairs....sick yes, funny yes, weird, definitely yes, but still a funny little story.  I am most definitely going to get severely shot for writing about that because I know her boyfriend reads this page, even though she doesn't.  Sorry sweetie!!

So my good friends in London reckon that even though they enjoy reading my pages, that I'm going to push the limit one of these days and get myself into serious trouble.  Well maybe the two little stories above may be the start of my future downfall with friends!!!

MY FAB SALAD: Arugula leaves, basil leaves, goats cheese, tomatoes (the cherry ones), peaches and croutons.  Do not cut up peaches and tomatoes into thin slices, that makes as far as I'm concerned a very boring salad.  Make all the ingredients chunky and thrown together.
DRESSING: Extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar (pay for a decent one), pesto and lime juice.  Add each ingredient slowly, taste constantly until a perfect sensation tickles your tongue.  Toss in with salad and there you go, perfect easy salad.