CONGRATULATIONS! to brand new Mum & Dad Jo & Steve on the birth of the first baby Indie Rose.

Indie was delivered by Jo herself in the birthing pool.  She arrived at 8:16pm on Saturday 18th October 2008, weighing in at 6lb 7ozs (2.92kg).

Everything went swimmingly (no pun itended!) and Mum, Dad & Indie are already home.

Mum & Indie

Mum Jo & Dad Steve.

Nannie & Grandaughter

Grandad & Grandaughter

The newts turns thirty something (again) :0)
so we celebrated at the Bracky

And just 20 days later, Trace hits the BIG 30!!

So we went to the Agrah to test Bov’s new found curry eating skills. Not usually the most adventurous when it comes to food, Bov is starting to branch out about and now when we go to an Indian he actually orders an Indian instead of the usual Steak & Chips.

Gaz had a particularly hot dish which had some fiery whole chillis in it, which got us on the subject of asking the head waiter what were the hottest chillis they had. Not only did they have the worlds hottest chilli, he offered to get us some to try! Game on!

So apparently this worlds hottest chilli is UK grown and goes by the name of Naga. I was expecting a whole chilli to arrive, but instead a little silver plate with about an eighth of an average size chilli cut into little pieces literally about 3 or 4mm square. We were instructed to just place it on our tongue and take it from there.

And yes, these fellows are DAMN HOT. within seconds of placing this tiny amount on your tongue it was on fire. God knows what would have happened if he did bring a whole one out and someone took a proper bite!

Those of us who didn’t spit the little guy out instantly and lasted more than a minute or so felt safe to chew the Naga and swallow it. The hot feeling stayed with you for a good 15 minutes afterwards.

However, the feeling stayed with Kirsty a bit longer who touched her face with the same finger she picked the chilli piece up with and ended up with a big red mark on her cheek for the rest of the night. Slightly less fortunate was Bov who went for a piss and set his balls on fire. And even less fortunate was Suzi, who simply had to go home ill.

So we may have had a few casualties, but at least we can all say we’ve had the worlds hottest chilli…

The Dorset Naga!

MORE on the Dorset Naga and the worlds hottest chilli from Sky News.

It’s my little Prince’s 1st birthday tomorrow and I can’t be there. I’m away working on a new Tesco store in Little Lever near Bolton all week and right now I’m so down thinking that I can’t even be there just to wish him happy 1st birthday it’s killing me. I love him sooo much and I just want him to know that I’m so sorry Dad can’t be with him on his special birthday but I’ll be thinking of him all day. I can’t do anything to change the fact that I won’t be there but to try and make up for it a little bit I’m going to buy my special littlest boy a special little present to open when he’s a bit older, and understands why Dad wasn’t there on his first birthday. We’ll also make it up with some special Dad & Rio time at the weekend.