The Pre-Birthday Feed

With Friday morning spent hovering between preparing for a couple of new commissions and attempting to sort of payments of previous forays into the world of the freelance writer, it was something of a relief to have the entire afternoon off.

I went down to the kitchen to prepare the evening meal. No ordinary nosh either - it was Tom's pre-birthday meal. Because of a variety of work/family schedules, the bulk of the clan will not be able to be around on the day of his actual birthday which is Sunday - hence the pre-birthday celebration.

I asked Tom if he'd like to go out to one the many restaurants which Whitley Bay has to offer. His response was interesting: he'd rather stay home where it's more comfortable and the food is better. Given the choice of food he wanted home-made pizza.

So, I spent Friday afternoon preparing veggie, fishy, meaty pizza to cover all tastes and eventualities, plus salad, homemade ciabatta and a tasty olive oil/balsamic vinegar dip. It took this lot of locusts about twenty minutes to demolish the lot!