A night out!

Last weekend Matt and I had a night out!!!!  Whoo hooo!  Can't remember when that last happened.  Matt got a Lancashire Hot Pots CD for his birthday this year - they are a comedy Northern folk band - a bit naughty with their lyrics, but easy listening and good fun to sing along to in the car (although Tom has started picking up some of their lyrics which can be a bit disturbing - from time to time he comes out with 'did you did you spill my pint' or 'oy you car park now!' which is quite funny as long as he doesn't do it at school.

Anyway they were playing in Manchester and our friends there had told us to get in touch anytime we want a night out as they were happy to baby sit Tom.  A couple of phone calls and Tom was booked in with them and we had tickets to a night out.

We did our usual for our trip down - stopping at Wing Yip to buy Asian ingredients for the store cupboard, followed by lunch at The Glamorous restaurant - which is always fun - in that you are never that sure what you are going to get when you order something.  This was followed by a trip to Go Outdoors a MASSIVE outdoor shop with lots of tents pitched which you can explore.  Tom always goes hyper here and today wasn't any different.  Matt and I also weakened and bought some Mammut clothes - it's not that often that we buy clothes, let alone both of us at the same time.

We then landed at the Komorovski's house.  Unfortunately Karen wasn't there, now we had been led to believe that Adam isn't all that capable so were expecting the worse, but we were pleasantly surprised just how in control Adam was - the two girls were looking more than happy at being left with their Daddy, Rosa especially - although she was a little clingy with Adam, not letting him out of her sight.

We walked down to the park for a play and then had a pizza and garlic bread dinner before leaving Tom behind (he hardly said goodbye he was having such a good time) and getting the bus to the other side of town.  

We joined a rather rowdy queue to what we thought was the venue.  We were both quite shocked as we were a lot older than everyone else, and also the people joining the line were pretty much all tanked up and spoiling for a fight.  Both of us were a little concerned, and very happy to be told that the entrance to our gig was round the corner.  We entered and found people of all ages in flat caps and waistcoats - this was our place.  It was in a student union, so I reverted back to pints - thankfully the pizza tea did me good and I was able to drink without getting rosy cheeked!

At our Hairdressing Salon!

The first band came on - they were dressed as badgers and were very loud!  Then the Hot Pots came on, they were everything we expected them to be and we had a good night singing along and enjoying the atmosphere.

We didn't get back to Adam's until after 11pm - very late for us.

After a bad night's sleep we got up.  I was on entertainment duties with the kids while Adam and Matt went out to get a Christmas tree.  After Rosa got over the fact Daddy had gone, we had a good time - mainly playing hairdressers - a game that of course comes naturally to me! Karen got back around 12.00, we had about an hour's catch up and then we were on our way home.  A good weekend, but early to bed for all of us.