We Had A Lovely Day Ahead,

Rainham Steve was picking us up,

so glad rags on and we were out to visit Bob & Debbie, for a bar-b-q,

out in the garden it was so nice,

some one was more than happy to see us all!

all set and ready to go,

also here was Gill on the right and of course Debbie on the left, 

Gill and Diana having a chat, 

Bob the master of ceremonies was soon rustling a huge plate of bangers, 

and was really getting into the party spirit!

whilst I had a chat with Gill's husband Dennis, 

I have slipped this one in that Steve took, Bob really looking the part, 

Gill, 

and Dennis, I tried to get into the shot, but failed miserably!

it was all go,

with the sausages, 

Diana and myself, Ah!

Bob gathering himself for the next course,

chatting to Dennis, 

time for bubbly, 

expertly poured, 

then inside for a feast,

 beefburgers, baked salmon, chicken, 

and a huge selection of salads and roast potatoes along with fried onions for the burgers and my favorite beetroot, 

Bob making sure everyone was well lubricated!

Steve and Debbie having a chat,

and admiring a lovely cake, 

it has a special name, but have forgotten it, 

carefully does it,

 it was absolutely delicious!

Diana tucking in to the cake,

then on to the pièce de résistance,

Bob taking so much care, 

and here it is, 

banana fritters which were served with lashings of ice cream and copious amounts of brady, 

Steve tucking into the bananas, as the afternoon turned into evening we all made a move inside, for a great party game, UNO, Debbie kept score it was such great fun and a wonderful way to spend the evening, at the end the scores were added and the result was announced, I am not going to say who won, but everybody else lost, after saying our farewells to Bob, Debbie, Dennis and Gill we were off, many, many thanks indeed to Bob & Debbie who took so much care of all of us, and to Steve for some of the photographs, Steve very kindly dropped us off at home and we said our goodbyes, at home we had a night cap, and as Diana has a 04.00AM start we were off to bed.

After Diana Left For Work,

I played with a few photographs,

that I took when we were in Morocco,

 

the problem being that I did not want anyone in the photographs, so they took a bit of time,

but I made an exception for this lady, which brought me nicely up to, 

my read and sherry, 

after which some smoked mackerel, 

and a huge shepherds pie, 'Cheers!', then my film for the evening, 

Troy: The Odyssey which for some reason I just could not get into, from the blurb:

"In this re-telling of Iliad, set in 1174 B.C. after ten years of fighting in the Trojan War, the Greek warrior Odysseus decides to travel for home, but instead finds a string of mis-adventures over the sea and land as he, along with a captive Trojan warrior named Circe as well as a group of loyal Greek soldiers, venture on the sea and land to get home to the island kingdom of Icarus and fighting sea sirens, and other mystical creatures to get home to his wife Penelope who is being hounded by a group of suitors hoping she will chose to make one of them their bride."

I mentioned it was just not me, and apparently I was not alone as it scored a pathetic 2.6 on the IMDB web site, moving on a 24/7 Police followed by a Cops, which brought me nicely up to,

 Volcano, from the blurb:

"Something unspeakably chilling is ultimately starting to heat up at The City of Los Angeles! Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city!"

as it happens although I had watched the film before it was remarkably good, after which Diana arrived home, so feet up for a coffee and a chat, as it happens we were both a tad tired, so we were both off to bed.

I Dropped Diana Off,

for another early start, 

for myself I played with a photograph of the Hassan II Mosque that we visited when we went to Morocco, unfortunaly it was a dull, almost grey day, the photograph out of the camera, the cameras lens sloping the building towards the middle of the photograph, so I decided to play with it a tad, 

and give it touches of more colour, 

and highlights, 

all making hopefully a subtle difference, it took and age but I eventual ended up with this, 

a bit of an improvement over the original I think, 

and here they are side by side, the main problem being in making the buildings upright I have lost some of the foreground, oh well at least I tried! after I picked up Diana in the afternoon she had a few ZZZZZ's whilst I watched,     

The Bridges at Toko-Ri, a WWII movie from the blurb:

"It is the Korean War and Lt. Harry Brubaker is a fighter-bomber pilot on the aircraft carrier USS Savo Island. A WW2 veteran and Naval Reserve pilot, he was drafted back into service from civilian life. This makes him quite resentful and cynical about the war. Now he has a dangerous mission to perform, and he is not sure he is up to the task".

after which our evening meal, 

but first a read and a sherry, 

for tonight a wagyu steak each with sugar snap peas and curly chips,

 

'Cheers!', then our film for the evening,

The Illusionist, in the late nineteenth century Vienna, renowned illusionist Eisenheim is reunited with the Duchess von Teschen when she is volunteered from the audience to participate in an illusion during one of his performances. Despite having not seen each other in fifteen years when they were teenagers, they almost immediately recognize each other as Eduard Abramovich and Sophie von Teschen, they who had a doomed romance at that time due to their class differences, the film is about how against the wishes of Crown Prince Uhl and the help of the police Eduard tries to win her back, very entertaining indeed, a very enjoyable film which we both enjoyed, it almost a touch of The Prestige about it, after which a American police fly on the wall 24/7 Police, which never fails to entertain, after which Diana was off to bed, for myself a Have I Got A Bit More News For You before I too was off to bed.