Saturday 22 May – Nat Plaster Change, The Zoo House, Sitting in the Sun, BarBQ Nat, The Mill on the Soar

Deb and Nat had to be up early this AM to go to the Royal Infirmary; Nat had an 8:30 appointment to have his temporary dressing replaced with a proper plaster (re broken arm) . Happily they were done and dusted by 9:30 and returned home with Nat proudly displaying his new red plaster. 
22/05/2010 by mysickbones on Zooomr
Nat had arranged for some of his mates to call around lunchtime to sign his plaster and do a little(?) gaming. In the end only Jacob and Sam turned up but when you add Han and Monty into the equation the place still seemed like a zoo filled with very distressed animals. Oh God, the noise that they are capable of making defies belief!
Anyway, I happily let them get on with it; I plugged in my MP3 player (phone), picked up a book, poured myself a beer, plonked down some cushions on to a garden chair and sat outside under the parasol to enjoy the warmest day of the year to date. Deb had gone to do a little shopping and was planning on buying a throwaway BarBQ  to cook out hot dogs on this evening. In the end she decided not too and so, tea still consisted of hot dogs only instead of burning them on a BarBQ we instead burnt them under a grill, what a hoot!  Anyway, after she came home she got ready to take Han to ballet; about five minutes after they left the three lads came downstairs went out into the garden and started smashing the crap out of each other on the trampoline. I suspected that they had waited for Han to leave because when she’s there and Nat’s friends are present she’s an unremitting attention seeker. Eventually Sam departed but Jacob remained behind. Nat wanted him to stay for a sleep over but we said no because Donna had called earlier and invited us out for the evening to the Mill on the Soar. It turned out that Jacob’s family were having a BarBQ that evening and that it was OK for Nat to sleep over at his house. Nat and Jacob left about five after I’d discovered that Nat's mobile had been broken during his bike accident, it’s a miracle it worked long enough for him to phone Deb because we wouldn’t have known where he was if we’d had to go looking because he’d taken a route home  we weren’t aware of. So I checked that my N95 was charged, put £10 credit on it and gave him it. We weren’t to see or hear form him again until the next day…why did I bother giving him that phone?
Deb, Han and I left home at round 6:30 and met Donna, Jonathan, Sian and Josh at 7:00 at the Mill. I bought our one and only round (1 pint cider 2 cokes = approx £7.00!!!!) of the evening which we nursed until we left about 9:15. The Mill was it’s usual pleasant self, we were sat outside near the kids play area and lake, and we passed an enjoyable couple of hours chatting in the sunshine whilst Josh and han ran round like blue arsed flies. Sian commandeered my mobile in order to remain up-to-date on Facebook; Donna did a very self conscious Audio Boo recording where she couldn’t think of anything to say…I know the feeling! Here are a few photos of the area surrounding the Mill.
 The Mill on the Soar Photos

We stopped off at sainsbury’s on the way home to get a few beers and various other sundry items. On arrival back Han went straight to bed and was shortly followed there by Deb. I stayed up until the early hours and when i eventually went to bed I’ didn’t get up until midday.