GAL newsflash - not very exciting/interesting to anyone but me, but I feel as if I've cleared a hurdle in the get-out-and-do-it-alone stakes:

Last night I went to S13's school's quiz night fundraiser for a basketball trip to China.

There were 22 tables of 10 parents and it lasted for 4 hrs - so you can get some idea of the intensity/competition involved.

And my table WON!! Yay!
And not only did we win, we creamed the opposition.

I came home with bottles of wine, chocs, etc as my share of the prize.

But most of all, I came home knowing that I could attend such a function - where I had to bowl up to a table of parents I didn't know, and sit with them for 4 hrs, then walk back to my car in the dark at midnight and drive myself home - and not worry about it.

Before all this started, I would NEVER have thought of doing something like this on my own.

I SO wanted to text H to say "Guess what? I just won the school quiz night" because quizzes were always his thing, and we always went to every school quiz night for both of our kids' schools.
It would have been happy gloating on my part, not point-scoring - much......