It's My First Ever Posting!

So be gentle with me.

Well here I am the day after the night before where 10 of us (6 adults + 4 kids) watched £100+ worth of fireworks go up far too quickly at my in-Laws house. Their garden is elevated and backs onto a railway line with a station across the road. It was so funny watching people disembark from the trains only to be swamped and enveloped by an eerie looking fog that blew from the garden. It would have been a great effect for Halloween if not for the loud bangs. Bro-in-Law, aka Naughty Wasp, kept shouting, "Pound a look! You look, you pay!" at the onlookers who had gathered on the downramp from the station.

There was severe competition coming from a garden on the other side of the track. Quite a professional show from a semi. So we oohed and aahed in a childish manner at the roman candles while Granny handed out the remains of Halloween chocolate and hoped that grandpa wouldn't snag his cardi sleeve on the rough wood of the rocket stick and end up careering heavenwards. For then we would have to decide which among us would become his landing pad (we are mostly built for comfort, not speed).

A slap-up supper ensued, as is the norm with the in-Laws, with jacket taties, beans, chili, hotdogs, nachos, dips, salady stuff, ginger parkin and copius amounts of booze including Naughty Wasp's notorious home brew, Dreg-end Falls, a cheeky little number that could double as nail polish remover or drain unblocker, if pushed.

On to crafty matters now. It's the International Craft and Hobby Fair at the NEC tomorrow and we're going and taking my Mum. And it's just tough if the boys aren't impressed, I do enough trouser stuff, now for some fluff. We were actually down there last Friday for the Snow + Ski show and it was great. I haven't ventured yet but youngest has just started skiing lessons, eldest has progressed to the big slope and hubby has taken up snowboarding, no mean feat for someone with loads of metal in his legs. We go to Xscape in Castleford http://www.xscape.co.uk/snow/castleford/ and I'm going to have to get my skates (skis) on sooner rather than later, judging by the amount of brochures we brought home. Looks like a hol is on the cards for 2011. Saw the gorgeous Graham Bell, former British ski champ. Eldest was too embarrassed to speak, as was I, but youngest got his autograph and I got his photo. Had a go on a vibrating plate for approx. 2mins. Hubby was bent double with laughter and loudly declared there was an earthquake going off in Lichfield. I felt like someone had been juggling my kidneys and had to take 2 paracetamol.