Happy Birthday Nick!

straight on with today's post as we have just arrived home,

 we spent the day with Nick and Maureen and stayed the night, so on with the party, presents first,

 and of course we had to say hello to Ta-Taa,

 Diana joined Maureen in the kitchen, Maureen had made a chicken curry for our main course,

 but first prawn cocktails,

 and a quick 'Cheers!' from me,

 for some reason Diana thought I would look better with a hair clip on my head, but it failed to improve my good looks,

 delicious,

 then cheers from all of us,

 taking a break from eating we went for a walk outside, Nick mentioned there is always a grasshopper in one of the bushes by the wall, sure enough there he was,

 not very well camouflaged against his background,

 interesting looking though,

 one of the local cats came by to see what was occurring,

 so I said a quick hello to it,

 Diana then took the camera to take a few pictures of Nick and Maureen's latest banana crop,

 a few hands of bananas growing nicely,

 this is the part that Diana likes, the flower pod,

 on her way back Diana took a picture of me,

 then on to our desserts, Nick in case you did not know is an excellent chef, he made these fruit tarts, complete with raspberries, red and black currents and blueberries,

 they were delicious with icing sugar over them and cream,

 we then settled down for this evenings game,

 of Monopoly,

 Diana got into party mode as well with a strawberry Bacardi breezer,

 it must have done some good, she won!

 then time for second dessert,

 a Swensen's mocha almond fudge ice cream cake,

we settled on just the one candle, all too soon it was 02.30 in the morning, so thanking Nick and Maureen for such a lovely day we wished them a goodnight and we were off to bed.