" I can't hear the fan" he says as he peers into the oven to check to see if dinner is cooked yet.

"What do you mean you can't hear it?" Says I

"Its not working the fan isn't working, I can't hear it" he says

"Is the light on?"

"No"

"Thats why then, when it gets a certain temperature, the light and the fan go out and will only come on when the temperature drops"

"Ok" he says, closes oven door, sets the timer again and sits to play on the laptop.

DIng ding ding goes the bell on the timer.

He goes out then calls from the kitchen

"F***ing thing isn't working"

"What isn't"

"The F***ing oven, nothing is cooked" he screams at me.

so I wander out into the kitchen.

Oven is turned on, fan dial is on - then look at the timer and it has been switched to come on automatically, but it is flashing because he hasn't told it when to come on automatically! so i turn the automatic function off and lol and behold the oven springs to life!

At some point tonight, we may, just may, get something to eat!

Have a great day hun!

Hugs xx

Walking through town today we thought we would price up for FLorida next year. So there we are talking to a lovely woman in Thompson who writes down all the prices for our enquiry and checks the virgin website for us to find that it is £300 cheaper with them.

Off she runs to speak to her manager, who then gives us a lovely discount if we book today with virgin through them.

With all the discounts and buying attraction tickets through them as well ( Walt Disney tickets and universal tickets) we are paying £400 less than when we went to Florida in 2005!

The outcome?

We run off to the building society to draw some money from our savings and booked there and then.

We are off to Florida in August next year and we are sooooo excited!!!

We will be staying here:

Ah dinner out was absolutely gorgeous yesterday evening.

Finally got to the restaurant in time, despite traffic on the road. Got seated and stared at by various other people eating in there because we dared to bring children in (well one child the other one looks adultish) but even if I do say so myself both were impeccably behaved, no arguments (for once) no silliness just sat quietly throughout and not disturbing the other customers who had given us funny looks.

Waitress bought us a basket full of sliced french bread and some butter in pots for each of us to chew on while we decided what we wanted to eat.

Richard had garlic bread and then just plain steak with fries
Nigel had chicken dish to start then steak with a spicy sauce
Simon had chicken dish to start then steak with tarragon nicole sauce
and I had garlic bread to start then steak with the spicy sauce.

I have honestly never tasted steak so lovely. Melt in the mouth and so very tender as well.

We decided against desserts as we were so full from the main meal, all of which served with flat fries and onion rings on a huge (and I mean huge) leaf of lettuce!

All very rich, all lovely and delicious and well worth every penny we spent on it.

Boringly only I was drinking as Nigel decided to drive for once so couldn't drink but have decided next time we will go by ourselves and get a taxi so we can both drink!

Both chefs (husband and wife team) came out and spoke to the customers when they had finished cooking which was a nice touch, though he spent a long time at our table discussing lights with Nig to find out when Nig could come and mend a couple for him! We complimented him on the food then he spoke to me for ages, rattled on, while I sat with a stupid grin on my face and nodding occasionally. I have no idea what he said, his accent is very thick and he speaks very fast, think I could have had more of a chance if he spoke French - or maybe he was lol!

It was a good night though and one that will definately be repeated.