Exciting Birthday Presents

Today was my (Mike's) birthday. We spent the morning recovering from a great curry and what felt like about 20 bottles of wine with some friends Mark and Marion,. We managed to pull ourselves around at about 3pm and set off to our storage unit in Glasgow. We had a van full of equipment, bought yesterday for about £3500, but that's a bargain really since it's second hand but hasn't been used much. New, it would have been about £7000. Really exciting to be buying this stuff, as it kind of mentally reinforces that we're actually definitely going to open the café.  


Especially pleased about the espresso machine and a bit gutted to be putting it in storage but it needs a special type of electricity supply and also needs plumbing in, so I can't use it at home.  Tough work lugging around things like fridges, a jumbo electric griddle, and a panini grill that weighed like it was made from gold. Jan is a strong little lass! 

When we eventually got home the sun was shining so we gave the new hammock it's maiden outing (my birthday pressie from Jan... been wanting one for ages).  Aside from the midges it was a dream! A big handmade brazilian one ... the mercedes of hammocks!  A far cry from the pathetic one I tried in Indonesia that suddenly bust when I was just getting comfy, spitting me head over heels backwards... much to Jan's delight!