Burswood

Chris P

So I've been feeling totally crap last week, snotty and coughing with an eye infection that lives me so much it just doesn't wanna go! It felt like a wasted week, it was Friday before I felt like I had any energy. On Saturday morning though I was back to feeling listless and tired. We had booked in to see the illusionists at Burswood and booked a room for the night, to celebrate our recent 18 th wedding anniversary, as I was getting ready though I had a minor meltdown, looking in the mirror, trying to put mascara on my last 4 eyelashes ( yes optimistic I know) I hated what I saw, I looked like Lord bloody Voldermort from Harry Potter, so cue a rather pathetic and sorry blubbering session, with a bit of bad temper thrown in, where I really contemplated chucking my make up on the floor and jumping up and down on it in a fit of childish pique. As it turns out I didn't have to cos I knocked it all over the bloody floor anyway, cue lots of swearing! Anyway we got up to Burswood, I was still feeling a bit down, as we booked in, they I formed us that we had been given a free complimentary room upgrade, thanks to my friend Anne, who had called them and sweet talked them! Well that cheered me up and made me realise that my life is pretty damn good and I have the most fantastic friends who really care, not forgetting my hubby who puts up with so much when I'm on a downer! The room wasn't ready yet though , so we dropped off our bags,had a look around, then went to the show. The show itself was really good, and there was a lot of audience participation and laughter. After the how we went up yo our room, free bottle of bubbly and chocolates waiting for us, along with a big spa bath. We went go the atrium buffet for dinner, it was very nice, apart from me trying to pick up a bit of bread only for it to flying into a bowl of olive oil, the bloke next to me burst out laughing and I said, let's just pretend this never happened! On going up for seconds I tried the Chinese buffet, spring rolls, and crispy duck, don't mind if I do! Unfortunately on getting back to the table as I tried wrapping the duck in the pancakes, along with some plum sauce, I realised that what I'd thought was 3 pancakes was actually 1 pancake and 2 bits of grease proof paper, the really sad part is that I didn't realise until I'd tried to take a bite! I just dirt of shuffled it onto the spare plate, looking around to see if anyone had noticed, I did have to explain to hubby though when he asked what I was doing. In my defence I had partaken of a couple of cocktails, I guess you can take the girl out of Scotland, but you can't take Scotland out of the girl!