MEAL OUT: Curzon Arms (Woodhouse Eaves)

Our fifth visit to The Curzon Arms with Lee and Su, on arrival the place was rammed and we squeezed into the cramped bar area. Fortunately when we were shown to our table we were seated at a spacious booth in the bar with a huge table.
The food was pretty good, although one end of my steak was a bit raw, Rose had Duck with nettle mash which was very, very green but very nice apparently. Unfortunately they had run out of white chocolate sorbet to go with the dark chocolate mint marquise, so Rose didn't order a pudding, but my strawberry fudge sundae was so rich I could only manage half of it so Rose had some of that.
Much talk about Lee and Su's possible new house in the country and the sale of their current home. A good night all round, as usual.

THEATRE: Neville's Island (Market Harborough)

This was quite a good play about four middle managers on a team building weekend who end up stranded on an island in the middle of a river after one of them misinterprets some simple instructions as a cryptic clue. The play skirts around many themes, religion, mental illness, and working relationships, but sprinkles it with enough laughs to keep it from getting too heavy. Sadly, the last thirty minutes were rather ruined as the theatre was insanely hot, despite the apparent air conditioning units on the walls... 

Downstairs there was a suggestion box, the most obvious suggestion being: TURN THE FUCKING AIR CONDITION ON!

CHRISTENING: Alicia and Lydia (Market Harborough)

We'd never been in Great Bowden church before, and it was quite a nice setting for a christening. The atmosphere was a little more happy-clappy than expected, with the musical director in particular giving it the full Steve Wonder, with his particularly badly programmed keyboard accompaniments.

It seemed there hadn't been time for a rehearsal, as none of the God parents seemed to know what they were supposed to be doing, cue the vicar telling them what page of the leaflet they should be looking at during the ceremony. After an age taking photos by the font, it was off to the Royalist.

I hadn't been in The Royalist for probably twenty years, I'm not sure that it's changed too much.  As the weather was quite good the children in attendance were able to enjoy the beer garden and the bouncy castle that had been erected for them. Unfortunately, the moment Lydia jumped on board, she was hit in the face by Zak's head, resulting in a front tooth hanging out of her mouth. This led to much tears and upset, but thankfully by the end she was okay again and back on the bouncy castle.