Easter at my sisters, crazy noise levels, and a birthday party for Ollie.
After spending time with his big cousins Ollie knows more about biscuits and chocolate than ever before. He is hooked on the playstation 2, playing "xx tricky," which is what he calls SSX tricky and he thinks a nintendo DS is called a cooking momma that you put nintendogs into and it's got a cool pen.
My Koziol fruit bowl made a brilliant cake plate. Our wheat free cakes were brilliantly decorated by the kids. My cool cake cases were not so cool because the cakes stuck to them.
Ian's mom saved the day providing the cake. She had made a fruit cake for my mom so I pinched it. A bit of icing and some cherries later and we had a really sweet birthday cake.
Unfortunately staying at home to make birthday pizza meant missing a trip to the roller drome in Herne Bay.
The Roller dome is on the end of the pier with a huge window to over look the sea. There was no one else there so everyone got to skate around an empty rink watching it snow at the end of the pier. How cool!
This leads me on to another cool Kent snow story.
Ian used to live in Whitstable when he was a student and there is a pub called The Old Neptune right on the sea front near.
It was very close to christmas and Ian and some friends were in the Neptune having a drink.
Someone was playing the piano and people were singing, (this is not something that happens a lot in England unless it's in a film but it did this time).
One of his friends decided to go home but shortly after leaving they returned
"come outside and look at this," they said. The whole pub went outside it had snowed so heavily that the whole beach was covered in snow and it was snowing. A snowball fight and lots of running around ensued until they all went back inside for more singing.
I love this story, it's so romantic and though it didn't exist at the time I always think that The Decemberists brilliant sea shanty song 'The Mariner's Revenge Song' would have been the perfect song to sing on that night.
