Last weekend we went to our first Secret Supper Club, held by Green Onions. For those of you who don’t know what a secret supper club is you can visit http://england-travel.suite101.com/article.cfm/different_dining_at_a_london_secret_supper_club to find out more. Basically it’s a guerrilla restaurant scene – chefs set up a one-night-only restaurant in someone’s home, you get a restaurant standard three course meal for a set price. It’s such a brilliant idea, it’s something that we’ve want to go to for a while but they’re really popular and you’re lucky to get a place. I had Thursday and Friday of last week off work and I happened to spot that Green Onions had a good menu for Sunday and a couple of cancellations, I rushed off an email requesting the spaces and they were ours. I planned it as a surprise for Raine and she thought it was brilliant – she had no idea what was going on, but kept thinking it was weirder and weirder when I made her take the train to suburbia on the other side and London and insisted that we stop off for a bottle of wine along the way. She was very happy when she found out what we were doing. It was such a chilled atmosphere, we were just in someone’s flat, temporary tables had been put up in the living room, we shared the table with three other diners and we all sang happy birthday to one of the guests, while a surprise cake was presented, at the end of the meal. The food was excellent and we had lots of fun, it’s definitely something we’ll do again and would recommend to others.
I’ve been playing a lot of music lately. I’m planning to home record a mini album of six songs before the summer. I have a title for it and we’re going to be taking shots for the front while we’re in Blackpool this weekend.
We’re heading back to Blackpool over the Easter weekend, we’re visiting family and friends and we will be out at our usual haunts on Saturday night so give us a shout if you’re around and want in!
Most exciting news of this blog - we’ve booked to go on holiday next month. We’re off to Fuerteventura for a week - we’re going All Inclusive which is quite exciting for me. I’ve never been on a package holiday before and I am like a small child thinking of all this unlimited food and alcohol on offer:-D I’m going to put all my weight back on in a week! We are going to be doing quite a lot of surfing while we’re there, so hopefully that’ll help keep some of the lbs at bay. This is only our second holiday abroad in the whole time we’ve been together, so we’re really excited – we decided that we just wanted to go somewhere sunny and relax for a week. We’re also planning to go to Australia for three weeks in December, fundage permitting!
We want to do a festival this summer and we’re open to suggestions, preferably one that doesn’t get cancelled on the day it’s meant to start…still not quite over last year’s festival disaster! We’re not sure we want to do a big rock festival. We could be convinced to do a day of Leeds/Reading: Friday (Reading) or Sunday (Leeds), but not the whole weekend; we can’t keep up with the kids any more – camping in a war zone doesn’t hold the attraction it once did… sad, but true. I’m attracted by Latitude, but I’m holding out on buying tickets until the Cambridge Folk Festival line-up is announced.
We went to see Waiting for Godot a couple of weeks ago. That was pretty amazing. We got to see Ian McKellan (and Roger Rees) in action and he was brilliant – he really blew everyone else off the stage. Matthew Kelly was also in it, in a bid to be recognised as a serious actor rather than that bloke from Stars in your Eyes. He did an ok job, to be fair – but he didn’t match up to McKellen and Rees.
We’re going on a mystery theatre trip when we come back from Fuerteventura, courtesy of Paul, we’re intrigued and excited!
Final news – our flat took Saturday’s Earth Hour deadly seriously… the power went out (in the whole of our building) at 8pm and didn’t come on for around 15 hours… There was some problem with the power lines and the electricity company had to come and dig up the road on Sunday morning. It meant that we spent Saturday evening in darkness and realised that we need to buy some candles for the new place… Earth Hour was known as Earth 15 Hours in our flat.
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