Sleepover!
Last night I went to a grown up girly sleepover. (I am assured by several male friends that the image they inevitably associate with the word "sleepover" is girls in white underwear having pillow fights, hence the icon).
The attendees were the girls with whom I occasionally hit the Duke of Cambridge for "Cocktail Fridays", something which I've missed for the last few weeks but intend to get back into asap.
One of the girls from the central development office lives in a nearby village with her parents, and they'd gone away for the week - leaving a house free for a Development Assistant invasion (we all happen to be girls). Met at the bus stop and frivolity started from there - I'm sure that most of the people on the bus could have done without hearing our random gossip, nicknames and mickey taking, but then again they'd all have been bored stiff for 20 minutes without us. The chap sitting in front of us was even laughing along at one point, although stopped when I realised I'd clocked him!
At Zuhura's we all pitched in to make dinner. We had a chicken and mushroom risotto with green salad, which was lovely, and dessert (later on)was summer berries and vanilla yoghurt, simple but delicious. We ate in the garden, in the evening sunshine, takign in the birdsong, when we weren't giggling too much to hear it!
Z had a bottle of cava in the fridge and wanted to try opening it with a knife (sabering) which we thought she'd done before but clearly hadn't... I think it was more amusing if you were there, watching her scrape ineffectually at the bottle neck with a cake knife, and her face when Mel (who didn't know what she was doing either) took it from her and opened it on her second attempt and very impressively at that!
We then moved on to examining Z's wardrobe (she has so many weird and wonderful skirts and dresses) a bit of playing dress up, and more wine, before settling down in front of a dvd with dessert and tea.
I think we eventually got to sleep at about 1.30 having "gone to bed" at midnight.
I haven't been to a sleepover since I was about 14, maybe younger - I think grown up ones are much more fun because you don't get adults around supervising! Though to be fair between all of us we're fairly responsible and left the house very neat and tidy when we came to work this morning.
I'm also really liking the fact that I find exclusively female company so easy to enjoy these days. Even a year or two ago I might have been intimidated by it, but I think working in mainly female offices has helped. That, and the fact that I'm not forever comparing myself unfavourably with them (just every now and then :p)
Very tired, not looking forward to my little sister's "Last Night of the Proms" themed concert this evening (concert = good, flag-waving = bad... sorry Samara!) but all in all a happy bunny.