NT Social - Sherwood Energy Village

The Xmas Social last night was a success. The projector worked and Gordon had done a first rate job with his programme. There were some school-pupil howlers which purported to be genuine. Some were poetic , most were imaginative, all were good fun. Then he had done a Belvoir Castle slide show which went down well.

Y mastermind the raffle in her inimitable way and Gary organised a 'beetle' drive. Great laughs all round. A bit difficult for those with mobility problems but everyone was sympathetic and it did get people talking to people they don't usually. A good idea.

This morning I dropped Y at the tram because she has two granny-duty days this week and tonight is having a sleep-over at Burton Joyce. She does do extremely well for someone who has just celebrated their 70th, bt she loves doing it and that is all that matters. I then nipped round to Brian's to collect two prints I am entering in an EPS competition tomorrow evening. It was necessary for him to print them because the maximum size my Epson printer will cope with is A4 and I wanted A3. He's done a super job. I shall know tomorrow night how they fare.

Then over to Boughton so that Bungus and I could go for lunch at the new 'Bistro' in the Sherwood Energy Village HQ. The architecture is very interesting. Picture 1 is the main entrance to the HQ - the Bistro is on the left of the picture. The Bungus figure is there to give some idea of scale. You can probably see at the edges some terracotta colour, which I didn't like. When viewed from the other side, the building has, in my opinion, the look of a 1950s Odeon. Not a good day light-wise but record-shots were all I sought anyway.

They wouldn't let us go in to look at the reception area. So we had a coffee in the Bistro and decided to try The Snooty Fox down in the village. Picture 2 therefore, is through a double-glazed glass panel at the HQ. The reflections were unavoidable I'm afraid. It was necessary to focus manually because the auto-focus system naturally thought I wanted a picture of the glass 4 inches away. At least with the Nikon, manual-focus is straightforward.

The Snooty Fox had a table for two and I had Xmas turkey from the carvery. It outstripped the Duchess of Rutland's offering at Belvoir by a factor of at least 10. Bob had the beef which he pronounced to be v.good.

After lunch we went to Bob's to have a go at the 'create a Blog' problem. It took us some time to get onto the internet via Bob's Wi-Fi but eventually we succeeded. Then we created a new blog entitled Bungus. Unfortunately, it appeared in my own google account and as a second blog on my dashboard. I had to leave before 'sorting' it because of my uneasiness about driving in the dark. Just before I left poor Sandra was brought home from the Workshop having fallen off a chair and hurting herself pretty badly. I hope she hasn't damaged the base of her spine or anything. Like me she is a long-term back sufferer anyway.

I reached home in the gathering-gloom and after a pot of tea and a sandwich I tackled the double-blog syndrome and successfully deleted it. Bob e-mailed to say that he has succeeded in creating a new blog but couldn't access it. Ho Hum - as Ray would say.

Byeeeee..................