Yesterday we had a party. Not a Christmas party, just a 'get to know the neighbours' sort of get-together. We had the added incentive of MrPM's home-baking* to encourage people to come.
At 2.15 MrPM was worried. "What if no-one comes? We'll never eat all this ourselves," he said. ("I'm sure I could have a good try" I thought...)
By 3pm we had 10 adults and 6 kids plus mrPM and me, all tucking in to baking and conversation.
"What a good idea" people said, especially those who'd just moved in to the new houses across the road.
"What a good idea" people said as we found out who lived 2 doors away.
And the doors between our sitting room and kitchen got alot of comment too.
"What a good idea" said the people in our row, whose houses are either identical to ours or the mirror-image of ours. They'd all liked this feature in the show-home, but the builders had decided to take it out when they built our row of houses. It seems mrPM and I were the only ones who had asked if it were possible to get such a door put in when they were building the house. It cost us a bit extra, but we wanted the circulating space.
"What a good idea," mrPM thought after everyone had gone, and all the toys had been tidied up (apart from one piece of Jenga which remains missing...), "we've got the neighbours talking to each other."
"What a good idea," I thought, looking at all the baking still to be eaten... ;-)
* lemon dribble cake, cider honey cake, orange biscuits, brownies, lemon slices and chocolate almond macaroons
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13 hours ago
Well if I had KNOWN the Legendary Lemon Drizzle cake was on offer, I'd have got the train up there pronto!
ReplyDeleteMaking an effort to get to know the neighbours is always worth it. well done you x
ps is the jenga down the back of the sofa?
what a good idea indeed.
ReplyDeleteI love doing open house type thingies!
Angela - mrPM is somwhat stunned that his lemon dribble cake is Legendary! (and this may be heretical, but I think the macaroons are even better than the dribble cake....)
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