Dave Turvey's new Deodorant

The December Tweenie was attended by Stevie & Collie, Nigel & Jo, Dave & Elaine, Dave & Jan, Derek & Barbara and Ian & Val – and what a lovely time we had as well, despite the low numbers.

I guess some members have heard how untidy our house is! Well Q started cleaning, dusting, polishing and hoovering that morning and I must say it did look clean.

Nigel concentrating hard so as not to spill any Trifle

Talking of clean, Dave Turvey had a new underarm spray on and Dave Large was very impressed and will order some for his next set of holidays!

As usual at our get-togethers, there is always plenty to eat, with each guest bringing along a dish of savoury or sweet. Personally, I would be quite happy with just puddings as Joanna always makes me eat veg but you do not get veg in puddings! And no – carrot cake is not real carrots!

Please note the picture of Nigel getting his own pudding!! Where was Jo to assist him? I bet she had her hands full with her pudding – I think she had Melon Surprise (or maybe Nigel did later?!).

Joanna's Melon Surprise

Anyway, Chocolate Profiteroles were also brought out, and the chocolate sauce went well with Scotch eggs and sausage rolls too – well, we can’t waste it, can we?

Derek not happy losing to the girls

Nigel had very kindly sorted out a music quiz and this always proves to be great entertainment, watching people singing the tune out loud trying to remember who was singing it. You end up singing it on fast forward in your head so you can beat the others to it.

Mind you some people are sore losers and the girls won in the end (but the questions were in the 50′s and 60′s music era, so they did have an advantage!!).

A very friendly bunch of happy members

All in all we had a great night and I had actually managed to work out how to get pictures from past Wing events onto the TV, so we had a good laugh at all the pictures you normally store on your computer and never look through.

Don’t be shy about having a Tweenie at your house – everybody is trustworthy and we had no missing towels or ornaments. Mind you, I’m not sure if Jan took some cutlery home – she seemed very impressed with it, as it was better than her Little Chef stuff she normally uses.

OK – bring on the comments!

The usual suspects

Another Tweenie has been held at the Tudor Rose on 27th February. This followed the very successful one held at the beginning of February.

This Tweenie was unable to attract as many attendees as the last one, but in its defence there were competing events for members to attend this time, and with some being on holiday we were happy to see 5 couples in attendance.

We still managed to have a great evening with plenty of chatting taking place.

As the Tudor Rose was not as busy as last time, we had great food and excellent service.

It also goes to show that an old leopard can change its spot – Nigel did not have fish and chips for the second time running!!!! What’s more,  Joanna did not have to put any pressure on him for this to occur!

All in all, a great evening in good company with good food to boot.

Dave T

One group at the Tweenie

The February Tweenie was held at the Tudor Rose Pub, Two Mills on the Wirral on Saturday 6th February.

This was a new location for us and it was lucky that I had phoned up in advance as the Manager decided to reserve an area for us. It was a wise decision as the pub was quite busy throughout the evening.

We had a largish attendance of 19 people; Dave and Elaine, Ian and Val, Nigel and Jo, Paul and Jane, Carl and Maureen, Steve and Colly, Ed and Anne, Steve C-P, Derek and Babs and finally Jan and I.

..another group...

It was also nice to have visitors from Cheshire and Merseyside Wings to whom we had extended an invite.

Ian and Val even arrived on their GoldWing despite thick fog and very cold temperatures. They were the only brave ones, though I’m sure Ed would have turned up on his bike if Anne would have let him.

I did notice something very strange during the evening, Nigel changed his habit of a life-time by NOT ordering fish and chips (Yes. honest!) and opting instead for liver and bacon in a Yorkshire Pudding base.

It was a very pleasant evening with plenty of chatting and socialising.

The Tudor Rose did us proud and I think we may go back there again for another social in the future.

DAve T

...And finally. the best behaved group!

Nigel not sitting down to his fish and chips!