There was a change of plan. Ellie had been at Pete's and had been excited to be in her "new house" (Pete has just moved into a new rental property). On Friday night, she was so excited that she video-called me to give me a tour of the house, and on Saturday morning, she called Diane to give her the same tour. Mid-evening, yesterday, however, she was in floods of tears and wanted to come home. After some discussion, Pete brought Ellie back to Zoe's, and she then wanted to come and have a cuddle with us. Finally, she went and slept at home.
At 06:30 this morning, I was downstairs ready to greet Ellie and give her a cuddle as she was dropped off on Zoe's way to work. She sat with me and, after a while, announced that she would like some scrambled eggs for breakfast. I was a little surprised, but I immediately snapped to attention and scrambled some eggs for her.
For the rest of the morning, she amused herself, requiring little input from us. I, on the other hand, could have done with some intervention. One of my Raspberry Pis was only accessible through the WiFi network, not the wired Ethernet. I spent several hours trying to get to the bottom of this, fruitlessly. This is one to sleep on.
After lunch, I managed to get out for a walk. The dull anti-cyclonic grey was trying to break up, and we saw a few minutes of sunshine here and there. When I arrived home, Ellie was playing with some friends out the front, and Diane was doing some tidying in the garden.
Zoe collected Ellie late afternoon. We waved them off, and I started on tonight's dinner. It was meant to be Lamb Shanks, but I had (mistakenly) only bought a packet for one, so I had to defrost some chicken to cook alongside it..
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