Pancakes?

Is that the face of true love, or just really wanting that peice of pancake? 

It's been a quiet weekend, which we've needed to recharge from a few busy weeks. Work has been very busy for us all and we're still trying to figure out a routine that let's us enjoy weekends without burning out.

Friday we finished up the birthday run seeing some local friends who have just moved house and both hubby and I were delighted with a voucher for Stack and Still as a gift. It was good having a quiet catch up and we ended up staying longer than we had intended.

Saturday was a rare quiet day in. It was by BILs birthday weekend and he and hubby decided on a boys day together, leaving me and Missy to have a girls day in. It was nice having time to just bumble about and potter about the garden and get on with some sewing. My latest project is an upcycle - I was given a bag of old jeans that I've turned into a bean bag. I will confess that I'm ridiculously pleased with how it came out as, sometimes, upcycles don't turn out all that pretty. 

Today has been a cleaning day. Scrubbed the house top to bottom before our neighbours pop round to go over budgie care as we have a holiday coming up. With that voucher burning a hole in our pockets, we decided that we deserved to go out and have a treat for lunch. 

The staff were great with Missy, although it was obvious that, despite being dog friendly, they don't get a lot of doggy visitors. The main clue being the fact that when we went to get seated, the lady serving us had to really think about where we were to be sat. 

Missy, as always, put on an exemplary display of good behaviour. She sat/lay under the table and didn't make a sound as we ordered food. I spotted that they had gluten and lactose free pancakes and, in a moment of "why the hell not", we decided to order Missy her own pancake.

The girl serving us, after a moment of confusion about a plain pancake for special diets, accepted the explanation with a laugh. 

Then one of the kitchen staff popped over to double check something hadn't gone wrong with the order. And then laughed about it.

And after that I'm pretty certain every staff member on the floor popped by to check on us and watch Missy get fed little peices of pancake. 

The kids at the table behind us were absolutely delighted about this, and it never ceases to amaze me how much children are more observant than their parents. Every time Missy was mentioned, it was a kid pointing her out to a parent who had failed to see her. 

Nonetheless, Missy very much enjoyed the pancake and the attention. Although all of us are gonna have to go on a long walk this afternoon to burn off the calories!