No, not the attributes of our cuddly moggy Oscar, but five of the words to one of the tunes on our Action Songs CD that we picked up in one of the geocaches at the weekend. We did three in total, but the children’s collection of happy melodies was undoubtedly the best find.
It gave us the most laughs anyway. On the way to the pub for Sunday lunch, we slipped it into the car’s CD player and awaited the assault on our ears. Yes, what we heard was very child like, although with words like ‘Flip it up, flip it out, and make it stand up straight’, you’d think we were listening to some sort of happy-clappy porn, and not a song about Peter Rabbit (and his ear).
The rest of the weekend was just as much fun. We were at Steven and Anthony’s, seeing their new house in St Neots, not too far down the road from Cambridge. It didn’t get off to a good start, though; the sat-nav made us drive the long route around (even if I should have known better), and we arrived 30 minutes late, after pootling around the town for 20.
But, what followed was very enjoyable.
We ate bruschetta, tomatoes, and cream cheese, followed by green bean and asparagus penne, finishing off with chocolate soufflé and strawberries. All very tasty, and some of it very ambitious; Steven had never cooked a soufflé before. He needn’t have worried, though, as it tasted as good as it sounds. We washed it all down with margheritas and white and red wine.
We then lounged in the lounge, and surprisingly, talked until 3am. Needless to say we breakfast wasn’t early, but we set off searching for treasure soon after, aiming the Qashqai for Great Paxton. The first cache done, we headed back for two more that were extremely well hidden in town. Then it was back into Great Paxton for lunch, trying to stifle our leftover giggles from what we’d just heard on the CD in the car.
Fantastic hosts, good food, interesting conversation and lots of laughter, with the occasional pointy ears and curly whiskers. Sounds like all the ingredients for a fun weekend to me.
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