Day 2

Had a great time this weekend. I took the day off on Friday and ended up taking my Step-Daughter, Cindy, to the Orthodontist. It's been obvious in the 6 years that I have known her that she would need a brace, and finally now that she is 16, something is being done about it. She was told firstly that she needs to brush her teeth more (no suprises there then), and then she had an X-Ray which showed she still had a number of baby teeth, that hadn't got through and were stuck in her gums. An op is inevitable and eventually then they will look at a brace. So as a treat I took her out for lunch and then a walk around the shops.

Ben, my husband, and I, had invited my brother and his bird round for a meal on Sat night, so I had a look in Tesco for inspiration. A total waste of half an hour but free parking so nothing lost. Cindy was upset that she wasn't invited with her boyfriend Mark on Saturday night. But I'd bought her lunch already, did she really expect me to spend more money on her! I don't think so!

Instead I bought a large tin of Quality Streets, to share between us all on Saturday night, leaving a load left over for Cindy and Mark as and when.

Saturday was brilliant. I'll talk about that later, but after dessert, could I heck as like find my tin of choccies. No, bugger lugs Cindy had nicked into the house when I wasn't looking and took the whole tin. I was not impressed. Especially since the orthodontist said she needed to brush her teeth more. More !?!? She needs to start brushing her teeth full stop, I'm sure that would help.

For dinner on Saturday night we cooked between us a Middle Eastern style meal. Lamb Kofta's in wraps, beef meatballs in a spicy tomato sauce, home made flat bread with sesame seeds, lemon houmous and tomato houmous followed by rice pudding.

The only thing not home made was the wraps. It was really good, I made the flat bread which was tasteless, but I know what to do next time to enhance the flavour. Ben's spicy tomato sauce was out of this world.

Would have been nice if we could have cleansed our palates with Quality Streets though