Countdown To Grape Lunch

[shirlthegirl43]

Wellie, could I beg the recipe for the honey and thyme chicken (it was scrummy) and whatever you did to those sossies was incredible - please could you let me in on the secret? I had to restrain myself hugely or I would have scoffed the lot!!

Thanks again for your hospitality and we would love to visit again - maybe when the weather is better and I don't have to worry about feeding my darned horseys!

[wellie]

No probs Shirley, I'll post the recipes up in Season To Taste section of the forum.
Trousers must 'take a bow' for the idea with the cocktail sausages tho', because after we'd baked the glaze on the Ham, took the ham out of the roasting tray and poured off the glaze to save (for roasting potatoes or the like in next week maybe?), and Wellie couldn't be arsed to make cheesy scone pastry to wrap said sausages in to form Nigella's Pigs in Blankets, he suggested tipping it over them and serving 'on sticks'.
Which seemed a cracking good idea to Wellie....

[JanieB]

Home again!!

Thankyou "et al" for a really, really super day. Thankyou Shelley and Paul for being superb hosts and I love, love, love your beautiful home.

I will meet you all again. I intend (have always intended) to have a party when my house is in order. Grapes invited, although you may have to mix with the hoi polloi of the rest of my life .

Janie

[wellie]

Thank you Janie, and we're thrilled that you enjoyed it so much.
You see? It wasn't too nerve-wracking meeting us now, was it?!

[TonyF]

So where's the pics folks?

[Headfry]

Hi Shelly and Paul,
How did it go?
I did think of you all.

[lainey lou]

Glad to hear you all had such a great time, now come on we wanna see what you all look like!!

[moggssue]

Photos please peeps ....... sounds like a great time was had ..... but then I always imagine wellie as the hostess with the mostest (WHO did say that>?!). Is this going to be an annual event? Taking it in turns?
Oh, and a belated but still well meant very happy birthday to Trousers!!!!

[piskieinboots]

annual? I'd like to see grapes meeting up more often

[HeyWayne]

Oh, so this was real, and not a virtual meeting?

[shirlthegirl43]

Oh, so this was real, and not a virtual meeting?

Most definately real - and really good fun too Wayne. Well worth the drive!

[scarey55]

Oh, and a belated but still well meant very happy birthday to Trousers!!!!

Belated? I thought his birthday is tomorrow. Unless he's like royalty and has two birthdays - an official one and an actual one. Perhaps the Grapes meet was ACTUALLY Trousers' official birthday party

[moggssue]

Belated? I thought his birthday is tomorrow. Unless he's like royalty and has two birthdays - an official one and an actual one. Perhaps the Grapes meet was ACTUALLY Trousers' official birthday party

Oh - duhhhh!! Bound to be me getting muxed up again!! I know his birthday celebrations were mentioned as part of the initial reason for the gettogether, so kind of assumed it was at the weeekend. Oh well, I'll shut up and come back tomorrow then

[wellie]

Oh God! is it his birthday?? No, just kidding.... it IS tomorrow, so no belated about it sweetiepie! (and he's now demanding STEAK for his birthday supper? see Wellie raid BC's piggy bank!)

Heywayne - keep up luv! Want to come to our 'House Cooling' party before we move?

Claire, sorry I missed you on SNC last night honey!

On the PHOTO front, we've given our OK to Haze for piccies to be posted from the Lunch, and others took photos (we were too busy?) and we don't mind theirs' being posted either, so who out of the rest of you Holly Lunch Lot haven't yet? JanieB? Shirl?
Chop Chop - Grapes are Revolting here!
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[yoanbob]

Photos photos photos??? where are they?