We visited Mark and Nita of Workhouse Marketing on Saturday and they kindly took us to dinner at local restaurant Angels. It's quite odd - we live in a busy seaside town but have a very limited choice of decent places to eat out whilst Mark and Nita live in the middle of nowhere and are within a couple of minutes drive of no end of fine dining establishments.This one, Angels of Ribchester is an amazing find. Perched on a hillside within what was once an old pub, the owners have spared no expense in converting it into a top class restaurant. The decor is totally over the top with the Angels' theme running throughout and a plethora of halos, wings,twinkling light effects and heavenly thrones in the reception area give it the air of a gay night club. But once inside the main dining area, the tables are tastefully set with starched white tablecloths and top quality cutlery and the decor is far more low key and refined. The menu was delicious and the portions sensibly sized so Marion and I were not faced with driving a coach and horses through our diet. The prices reflected the standard of the food and we had an extremely enjoyable evening.Highly recommended.
It was an interesting weekend on the football front. I went to see both Everton and Liverpool play Blackburn and Arsenal respectively. Both games were notable for howling errors by two normally reliable goalkeepers. Howard of Everton managed to spill a harmless ball right into the Blackburn striker's path whilst Liverpool's Pepe Reina marred a near perfect display of goalkeeping by fumbling the ball into his own goal in the very last minute of normal time. Of the four teams that I saw, none impressed greatly. Blackburn were far too dependent on high balls into the box, Everton put too many passes astray in midfield and lost the ball on the halfway line countless times, Arsenal impressed with their possession but created little whilst, for Liverpool, Ngog really needs to learn to control the ball and understand the offside rule as every attack in the first half seemed to break down when the ball was directed towards him. He redeemed himself with a great goal in the second half but by then Liverpool were down to ten men and it was backs to the wall for the rest of the match.The atmosphere at Anfield was better than it was last season and the crowd were behind the team. It will be interesting to see how Liverpool perform with a full eleven at Man City next week.
Marion said that there was a new detective series on BBC2 last night so we thought that we would give it a try. "Vexed" was completely off the wall and within a few minutes I was laughing. "Are you sure that this is not meant to be a comedy" I asked. Marion was not sure but it soon became obvious that it was and, in the spirit of the very first series of "Moonlighting" when the young Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd flirted and charmed their way to future stardom, Toby Stephens and Lucy Punch played it for laughs and raised plenty. I enjoyed so many little scenes within the show such as when Kate (Lucy Punch) is waiting for Jack (Toby Stephens) to turn up to a crime scene and busies herself reading the murder victim's copy of Hello whilst the poor woman lies in a bloody pool beside her and when a misunderstanding leads to her smashing a kettle into an innocent suitor's face and another has her breaking her husband's knee-caps with a rolling pin. It may not sound funny here but I can assure you it was.
I was hoping to implement a new computer system here at Instanta before we retire in November but things are dragging on that front and I have had to start a crash course for our staff on the current system. Today I have been showing Operations Director David Wilson the accounts system. He doesn't need to know it in detail but a background in it will help him and then he can tell everyone else all about it when we have gone.
Looks like Kate from Vexed had another misunderstanding when she went to McDonald's drive thru and they told he they had no Chicken McNuggets left.
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