Congratulations
Congratulations to my mum and Steve on their wedding yesterday. The day was absolutely fantastic and went perfectly. The happy couple are honeymooning in the peak district for a week, I hope they have a fantastic time.
Well, since I last posted last Sunday, we’ve had one hectic week. It’s been none stop planning for the wedding, our house has been crazy. Mum made her wedding cake (pictures to come), Claire made the flowers for it and it was absolutely fantastic. The reception was a big hit with all who attended, there was no shortage food as mum, myself, Claire, my brother James and Rose (Steve’s Mum) have been busy cooking and ordering a massive selection of food and desserts. My mums strawberry flake cake is so good!! (Me Claire and Kara, my little sister might be making on later in the week, so pictures and maybe a food blog entry to follow). If I have a picture of the spread then I’ll get that up too, it was absolutely fantastic. To top all that there was a hog roast. Yes an entire pig was roasted on site and served straight from the pig, it has to be the best way to eat pork EVER! The crackling was the best I’ve ever had, the meat from any part of the pig was just perfect… *drool*.
Over the weekend my auntie Wendy and my cousins Steph, Chris and his girlfriend Jess have been staying with us and it’s been a great laugh. We all watched twisted horror film Hostel and I must say, despite Wendy telling me the plot and everything that happened in so much detail I felt I’d seen it before, I really enjoyed it. It was certainly an experience. I’m not sure if it beats Hard Candy for making you want to not watch but it was still very good.
In other news, my graphics card has finally given up the ghost. It was a lovely little NVidia GeForce 4200Ti a card that has done me extremely well and has run everything that I’ve thrown at it without any modifications including Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One. I’m currently borrowing Sam’s ATi Radeon 9800 Pro, which in some bizarre twist doesn’t seem to like my system at all and give me four large vertical bars around 3cm thick on the screen. Gutting. This is not good because I’m broke as anything. To solve this I’ve resorted to using remote desktop in windows to log into my machine upstairs from my mum’s computer downstairs. Ho hum, no gaming for me I guess.
Tonight me and Claire are going to our friend Joe’s BBQ for what promises to be a great night as always at Joe’s. Have I mentioned that I do so love a good BBQ? 