More needle work with the mysterious Dr Z on Friday. I think she must sit and wonder "how can I keep him guessing this week?". I have needles inserted into several new places at my latest Acupuncture session on Friday. I now also know that on my forehead she pushes them down rather than just in. I guess the skin on my forehead isnt thick enough to give them a good hold  . They don't hurt much but when she hits the right spot - PING. it feels the same as when someone gently squeezes a pressure point, it doesn't really hurt but you know it really could!
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Anyway Bonfire Night and 2nd Canniversary party was held last night (10th). It was suppose to be a pot luck but Julie always panics and starts to worry about everyone only bringing 4 chicken wings or 6 cookies. POW off she went and produced 1 x Full blown traditional chicken curry (our new crockpots hold 6 litres and it was full), 1 x Beef in Red Wine Casserole (another 6 litre crockpot worth), about 2 litres of Mushy peas, Brandy Snaps and Bonfire Toffee. Then I topped it off with 6 litres of Mulled Wine! (Yes we really do have 3 monster crockpot's). 50 Beers, 6 bottles of wine and 4 2 litre bottles of pop. Not to mention the six crusty loaves for dipping in curry and stew and then Kathryn decided to make naan bread.......... Yes you heard right there was ONLY 40 people coming around and they were bringing some food too!
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Well 46 people turned up and as you can imagine some brought alot and some a little. We had an additional 6 litre crock pot of Beef Curry, another one with some Mexican veggie dipping stew (looked good), 400,000 chicken wings, Salad, Sweet and Sour Bean Cassorole, roast pork tenderloin, 2 cheese boards, Pork Cassorole (only a measly 2 litres , what were they thinking) and a partridge in a pear tree. So the tables groaned under the weight and everyone marvelled at the shear quantity of the feast, then I announced it was time to save the tables from the food so lets lighten the load. I managed to grab a quick bowl of Beef Curry before being despatched to ignite things that go bang.
.Some more photos of the fireworks and Bonfire.
 Photos by Gemma
The Bonfire scared everyone again (including me) as the embers flew into the sky and the wind whipped them into the trees. I was patrolling the wooded areas to make sure there were no burning embers. God knows what I would have done if one lodged 20 feet up in an old fir tree.... watched and marvelled probably.
The whole party was a great success, I remember in the UK when Julie used to say, "we cannot invite anymore we have 22 people coming around" . We have been here two years and doubled the number of people invited to our annual Bonfire Party we definitely have more local friends here than in the UK. We only really spoke to our neighbours immediately next to us and across the road, while here we speak to everyone in a 300 yard radius (still only 6 houses ). The boost in numbers comes from the Newcomers club and their families and some work colleagues.
David the Igniter see me on the right hand side? | 
