Bank Holiday Weekend

Bank holidays normally provide the Knowles family with some odd entertainment which normally involves one of us hurting ourselves, getting in trouble, a row or something genially exciting happening. I’m glad to say this weekend hasn’t disappointed ..

P and G (P being my sister who lives in London and G her boyfriend) were due to come down on Friday after work and join us all in Devon for a weekend of family fun times!!.. At 7:00pm on Friday when my brother phoned them to see where they were we weren’t expecting the tone to be less than amused and they were stuck in traffic less than a mile from there house!!! J (my brother) and his girlfriend J and me were due out anyway on Friday night to celebrate our friend S's birthday.. Once meeting in our local pub for a bit of food and some general bantering entertainment which included me thinking i could participate in a drinking game that involved throwing a cigarette packet on its side.. if it didn’t then you had to drink how ever many fingers you have just broken the chain of... this would have been fine if i was any other drink than Wine.. (after a rather horribly drunken under aged drinking night at my sisters 21st which involved me downing 1 to many glasses, i have never been the same again when it comes to downing wine.. ) I liked to think i kept my composer tho!! The best part was when S produced her birthday cake which was AMAZING.. and yes we are such bad friends she made her birthday cake herself!!! however she does love to cook and bake before any one starts frowning.. (actually our birthday present to her was a cake tin, some cupcake cases and cookie cutters.. There was also a baking book but sadly i didnt read the front cover very well and it wasn’t till i got home i saw it said on the front "For Gluten Free, Sugar Free, Fat Free baking..." i for one would not enjoy eating these cakes and nor would she enjoy baking!!! Total shocker. Anyway.... Once we paid the bill and sorted our lives out we ventured up in to Topsham town to see what else we could get up to. We rocked up to another pub called Drakes where there was a live band on and managed to squeeze ourselves into a table.. Lots of drinking then insured including some of the girls getting brought some shots but a nice elderly gentleman who didn’t quite understand the phrases.. Jagabomb .. so they got Sambucca instead. It was here where me R (S's room mate) discussed our future wedding plans as my parents have already pretty much sold me off to him!! nice.. i didn’t think the Knowles were in for arranged marriages but i think i might be in one.. Sorry R.. Don’t take less than a million!! or at least 4 Camels.

Once i got home around 12 P and G had finally arrived... once i regaled them with not particularly funny stories of the night that i found highly amusing we all ventured to bed.. not before however in trying to tell G how to turn off the lights in the sitting room i seemed to turn in to some drunken, snorting donkey which i found hilarious and he found perfectly odd... i just could understand how he didn’t know that "turn it off by the wire " meant.. However 10 minutes later and 2 lights successfully turned off i made it to my bed.

Saturday morning :- Slight hangover and my cold was getting worse i was feeling horribly self pity for myself and after breakfast and pretending of getting up to start the day i went back to bed to watch films whilst others went about there business... It wasn’t till around 6 all the fun started..

The neighbours turned up for a drink which was lovely they are hopefully to buy a house soon and came to ask what the area was like.. all fine till M noticed that in our kitchen a nice flame seemed to have appeared.. Somehow our breadbasket that was sat on top of the cooker had caught alight... Brilliant start to the evening.. once we had opened all the doors, stopped the fire alarms, caught and put out the fire and settled down all of us with a strong glass of something it all seemed rather entertaining.. bit of an excitement!!

Tonight was also THE FOOTBALL.... how ever exciting this is to most males on the planet i sadly was not excited at the least. Mum had this fantastic idea that me, mum, P and J could spend the evening cooking Home made Chinese in the effort not to have to deal with the football.. what she hadn’t planned on tho is quite how complicated this might have been. Also not helped by the fact the 3 girls.. me, P and J would cut 2 spring onions each and then decided we might like a quick one in the pub and then leave mum with the rest of the prepping.. However it was Delish what ever mother Knowles says.. We also had to start Crispy Duck Pancakes (marks and Spencer’s.. have u ever tried to make crispy duck.. it never works... also with my brothers delightful wisdom turned to mum after and said... "lovely meal mum but by far the best bit was the crispy duck...." poor mum that was the bit she didn’t cook)

Once we had finished on the mammoths amount of food and cheesecake that J and J made it was definitely time for bed till the boy located the film Face Off on TV... this is where i got horribly confused between Face Off and Con Air.. apparently thinking they were the same film... G did not appreciate the ... "so when is there the plane crash and Johnny T turns evil" questions.. not the ... "so if he has his face what happens to the other ones face.. and do they ever revert... haven’t they changed yet.... did he mean to kill his son" type questions... by about 10 minutes into the film i still had no idea and poor G was trying very hard to not shout at me i feel..

This takes us to today when i have mainly napped in preservation for drinking this evening.. it is a Sunday after all!!!!

Hopefully this evening will produce some more banter i can fill you in on..