Crazy again

With Ellie staying overnight, there was no need to get up too early. In fact, I had to wake her to have breakfast and get ready for school. Zoe, who had a late finish at work yesterday, came around just in time to do Ellie's hair and walk with us to school. She then went home to get ready for another late shift, and I set off on my customary walk.

Once home, I grabbed some breakfast, and Diane settled down for a long phone call with Pauline. I retired to the study to look into an alternative to the Plex media server I currently use. I'm not totally happy with it, nor the level of control it gives me over remote clients. With the help of ChatGPT, I eliminated Kodi as an alternative but concluded that JellyFin looked like a very good solution. I thought about my current configuration and decided to leave it alone. I would order a new Raspberry Pi and install that as my new media server. A new Pi was selected, and the order was placed. I have to wait until next week before I can do anything further.

Zoe had called me during the morning. She had set up a new account for Ellie's funds. I suggested that she should exploit it and set up a regular transfer into some form of savings that would earn interest. I spent some time looking for the best options, but most were only available for children from 11 years old upwards. I phoned Trevor and asked for his thoughts. As it happened, he was planning to do some financial planning this afternoon and said that he would investigate and get back to me.

After lunch, it was too hot to sit in the Orangery and read, so we settled in the lounge, which had remained nice and cool. The Kindles kept us quiet until it was time to collect Ellie. Ellie came home with us and, after a drink and a snack, headed out to play with her friends. She was back just in time for dinner.

After dinner, we all headed down to the seafront. We started with another game of crazy golf. With Nana playing along with us, it was great fun, particularly when she got a hole-in-one. After the golf, we strolled out onto the pier to look down on the families enjoying the evening sun. The tide was way out, and there was barely a ripple on the surface.

We then strolled along the promenade and stopped for a doughnut (for Ellie) and, after fending off the seagulls, moved on to the play park.

I dropped Nana and Ellie at Zoe's so that Ellie could get ready for bed and Nana would wait for Zoe, due home in about 30 minutes.