We let Ellie wake up in her own time. This meant that we had a quiet start, and she emerged well rested. Zoe came to accompany us on the school run. After dropping Ellie at the classroom door, I set off for my morning walk.
After breakfast, Diane and I went into Chichester. I am still struggling to get one of my bank cards into Apple Wallet, so I decided that I would present the problem to the local branch. The assistant was immensely helpful and went through all of the same procedures I had followed. He got exactly the same results. He then checked the online status of the card and confirmed that there were no flags nor inhibitors that would prevent the card being added to Apple Pay. He concluded there had been a problem provisioning the card and marked it as damaged— thus triggering a replacement card being sent out. He is hopeful this will sort the problem; if not, he has given me the branch phone number and that of HQ to phone and discuss.
While I was sorting this out, Di was mooching around M&S, which was where I met her. We then stopped at a couple of stores looking for some gifts and cards for upcoming celebrations. We stopped at Crispin's for lunch (knowing we would be out later). Leaving Crispin's, we stopped at a jeweller's where we managed to find the stud earrings Di had been looking for.
We had a quiet afternoon, though Di joined Zoe to collect Ellie from football practice.
We had an evening out scheduled. We drove across to Worthing and parked in the new Civic Centre car park, which was right next to the Assembly Halls. We were early enough to sit and have a quiet drink in the bar before the show.
We had an evening with Major Tim Peake. This was a superb evening where Tim took us through the history and expected future of space flight.
We loved it. It was the best evening's entertainment I have seen in a long time. I found it very nostalgic; going to a school taught by Americans right in the middle of the "Space Race", it all seemed very real to us at the time and we followed every nuance of the successes and failures.
I cannot recommend this highly enough.
Just to bring the event to a perfect conclusion, we were home in 30 minutes. Perfect!
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