Yawn yawn, wakey wakey autumn 2017

Good morning everyone ,are we all full of Boucability and that eternal positive enthusiasm this morning,all together now"of course we are" have a lovely weekend and keep smiling my friends

 

Aloha everyone,

I'm only a volunteer helper and cook for the 80th party today but have already changed the way they're going to get things organised . I've got a few more changes that they will need to do in order to make things run smoothly. I've really been a busy body and reorganised the layout for the tables, the lighting, some of the arrangements for the cooking (I'll let them know this morning how to get the serving of the food made easier and more efficient - need some more saucepans and serving dishes in order to save people getting in each other's way) and got the Hall's Christmas decorations put up early.

That's really good news.

Sign on waiting room door:-
"Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!”

@wiseowl I have bouncability in my mind but not quite so much in the body It's good to hear you've got bouncability.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Morning @shiney my good friend the Bouncability is always there,it can be a tad annoying at times but I wouldn't be without it

 

Good morning @toppington and all my other friends hope you are all OK,have a lovely Sunday

 

Aloha everyone,

I was certainly the busybody last night . Got the stage lighting sorted for the band and then I got all my friend's grandchildren (all adults) organised, kicked his wife out of the kitchen and told her to mix with the guests, told his two 'children' (in their late 50's) to leave things to me and the 'kids' (they were getting under my feet) and started issuing orders .

Two of the kids were delegated to run the bar (I haven't the faintest idea how to do it ), had one of them to put all desserts on tables in another room and cut them or portion them ready for later, another one told to set up a separate table in the hall (just outside the kitchen) for the salads, condiments and cutlery. The family, who were originally going to run the food side of the evening had expected to set up everything in the kitchen

I set up one end of the kitchen counter, by the hatch,(it's 16ft long), for the hot foods and one end for the cold meats, bread, butter etc. Delegated one of the kids to handle the serving of the cold food and left me to deal with the hot. On a back counter I got one of the kids to prepare all the cups and saucers and pots etc. ready for tea/coffee and I set up the big urn.

The gas cooker is a very old professional one and is excellent. The oven is 5ft wide and easily took the 60 jacket potatoes . There were two giant pans of chilli (one meat and one veggie) and the 'family' had originally intended to just stick the pans on the hobs and heat them up. When I heard about that, early in the afternoon when we were setting up the hall, it was the time that I decided that I would take over running the kitchen! When you have pans each full of 15lb of chilli you're going to end up burning the food at the bottom before any of the heat gets to the top! So I had brought along smaller pans to decant the chilli into and to heat it up in batches. The last job allocated was for one of the kids to separate the plates (they'd brought disposable plastic plates which are quite difficult to separate), unwrap a potato onto each one and cut the potato (a full time job when serving 60+ people). I did the batch heating of the chilli, transferring to the counter (brought heat proof mats) and serving it.

It all went very smoothly (they did an excellent job) and then I told the kids what their next jobs would be - clearing the salad table and putting the desserts out for people to help themselves (never try serving a dozen different desserts and asking the people what they want), cutting the cheeses and laying out the biscuits and making teas/coffees. Then they would have to wash up!

I helped myself to food, had a quick dessert and then went home and left them to it! I'd told my friend not to expect me to stay long as I have very sensitive hearing and the band were too loud, although they were very good.

I'm going to take it easy this morning and then this afternoon I'm captaining the county bridge team in the inter-county league.

I may slow down a bit next week

I wish all of you that are 'under the weather' a much better week next week.

Don't overdo the Christmas shopping. We've just been invited to friends for Christmas Eve, which fits OK with us as we have decided to no longer help out serving meals on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve to the 'down and outs' in town. It has got too much for Mrs Shiney and we're leaving it to the younger people.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!