Hi,
Going to probably get myself in trouble now but I have a hankering for shoes! So, will probably pop to the Mall & indulge myself (H will probably read this & then my had 'em for ages thing will not work! Lol)
Now for a tale that goes on a bit but worth reading & all true (no poetic license)......................

Last night we went to the pub quiz as planned & I spent a while re- checking the papers for likely answers (they always have a couple of questions that you can't remember the answer to even though you had just read about it that morning!), anyway went along armed with certain facts such as 'Khalil scored the winner in the 89th minute for UAE in the Gulf 21 competition & were to face Iraq in the final', 'Rory McIlroy had just signed a deal with Nike'. I was pumped & ready to go!!! I had never been so prepared & was ready to amaze my team with my 'head for facts' this week!!!!(hope you at least are impressed!)

What a debacle! - Were there any questions relevant to the days events?? No! All that preparation WASTED, so good job we go for the drinks & the laugh of it, unlike some teams!!!

Now, you need to know there is a lot of history to this particular quiz, the emphasis is on FUN & most people embrace that fact & don't take themselves too seriously but as the saying goes 'there is always one!'
There is one team who have been winning the quiz every week (more or less) for a couple of years, named after a particular search engine, which everyone knows they use via their phones constantly!!!! (On some occasions noticed by people in the pub that aren't even in the quiz!) Anyway last week we had a plasticine round, in which you are given a chunk of plasticine & a theme & you model something to try & win the bonus points.
Can I say - what some people can do with a chunk of plasticine is truly amazing!!!
Well, as people are making away (theme was transport) there were several comments such as 'judges decision is final', 'its only a bit of fun' & 'no controversy this week', not having been the week before our curiosity was piqued!! ..........
Well we asked one of the quiz masters what had happened the week before & oh we wished we had been there!!!
Apparently the theme was to make 'a free standing animal' & a man had made the most amazing giraffe & with only one colour of plasticine he had even used some ash to colour some patches on the giraffe, it was apparently amazing & would have got full marks but, as it had to have a beer mat to keep it upright, points were deducted. Well the search engine team were apparently 'up in arms' calling for disqualification!!! (Its only a game you numb nuts!!!!) No one else had an issue with the way it was judged except for these people who regularly cheat (sorry - check their phones for messages!) Well it apparently was an issue all evening & one particular team member really did throw all his toys out of the pram!! And even refused to shake the quizmasters hand on the way out!!!

Well all I can say is that D + A who run the quiz are doing a great job of reminding the stroppy ones of their immaturity at every available opportunity & we, as a team are loving it - Carry on the good work lads, its giving us a great laugh!!

Plasticine, in a pub........
I never realised what I have been missing, all the time when my kids were little & we would attempt to eat out with them & they squabbled & aggravated us all the time if I had only had a lump of plasticine!! You need to know that H & the other quiz team boys usually behave like my kids did at 6 & 8 or 10 & 12 etc but we have discovered that by giving G plasticine, he sits quietly playing at the end of the table modelling away - no silly answers, no shouting out etc (lol).
As sport was the theme this week he started making 'a little man in a boat' (yes really Thelma! - ask someone if you don't know what that is, the rest of you) the only amazing thing with that was how quickly he got fed up with that!!! Poor M - haha.
However G did eventually produce a high scoring skier!! Well done!

So that's a good tip for all you mum's of small kids (& those of us with big kids) take a lump of plasticine out with you wherever you go!!

That's enough for now but don't forget its Thursday, so tomorrow I should have a tale or 2 about our night out!
Love Jane