We Decided To Pop Back To Friendship Today,

for two reasons,

 firstly we wanted to buy a cream horn as a desert for our bar-b-q this evening,

 and I also had to pick up a few prints from the Kodak shop opposite,

 the aquarium in the Kodak shop as always looked first class, but I never know which is the more pleasing way to photograph it, this picture taken with the flash on,

 or this one with the flash turned off,

 on the way back we also picked up some charcoal plus a few prawns at the market,

 then it was light up the bar-b-q, for some strange reason it made so much smoke,

 it was like a scene from a Second World War film I was watching in the afternoon when the Captain of a destroyer gave the order 'make smoke!',

 it seemed to take forever for the flames to catch,

 but eventually they did,

 it was then Diana's turn to take charge,

 the embers glowing nicely now as we started after some garlic wholemeal bread with prawn kebabs,

 so romantic, a candle lit dinner for two,

 as well as chicken with onions we also tried a couple of rashers of pork belly with salt rubbed into the skin to make crackling, they were delicious, so much so that we will buy a few more for our next bar-b-q, also Diana tried a different sauce on the prawns which made them taste even better than the last time we had them,

but our visit to friendship had been in vain, there were no cream horns, but there were some nice cherry tarts, so we decided on a dessert of them,

in the afternoon Diana decided to clean the house, not that it needed it but it left me free to watch a few black and white movies, for some reason Diana prefers movies in colour, of course it could be that she does not like old movies! so first from 1960 though set in 1941, Sink the Bismarck!, full of stiff upper lip, it was a interesting film from my point of view if for no other reason one of the Swingate kids had a Dad who was on one of the ships in the sinking of it, 


in those days there was a naval base H.M.S. Pemboke in Chatham, where one side of my fathers family originally came from, also I spent more than a few days there when the faculty was open to the public on Navy Days, this is a 1954 example of a typical 'Navy Day' for the public, I seem to remember my first day to watch the spectacle I must have been about 8 or so four years after the article, but back to the battle to sink the Bismark, for a more factual account of the battle have a look here,

another black and white movie Them, ants that had been affected by radiation from the atomic bomb tests in the New Mexico desert go on the rampage and have to be stopped, a great 1954 scifi/horror movie, after our meal we watched some of the series on satellite television that we like, then for us we were off to bed.