Done

Well all the cooking is done, we arrived on Friday afternoon, didn't need to make anything til Saturday morning, so we made some cake to test out the oven. Just as well we did coz the oven we used was a bit dodgy. In ten minutes the top was completely black and the rest was still cake mix. It had to be thrown out. We then had a bit of a panic that we were a pudding down, but worked out that we had enough ingredients to make a back up plan. After that we used the other oven that was not dodgy a fair bit, and used the not so good one on gas mark one for things like slow cooked roast pork. I have to say that before the weekend I thought there was no way we could actually cook for fifty people for three days. The husband would assure me that we could do it, that we had planned well enough and it was possible. I wasn't sure if my health would hold out well enough, but it did, just. We had planned rests in, and had a lovely lady called Sophie who helped us out. She was invaluable. We had planned all the food prep stuff, but had forgotten about things like washing up and laying tables. Without Sophie we wouldn't have managed it all. We got back Monday. Tuesday I collapsed a bit, kept falling asleep, didn't really manage to much at all. Today hasn't been too bad, so I'm hoping that by the weekend I am back to my norm ready for the next big adventure that starts on Monday. But more of that later.