Skirmish

 A leisurely start to the day revealed a dry morning with clouds decorating the firmament and the promise of sunshine once it could drag itself up over the horizon. I had one quick coffee and then went out for my usual walk. As there was no particular hurry, I added an extra kilometre to the route.

Over breakfast, Di revealed that she had decided not to have a Christmas tree this year. I duly took the tree back down and packed it away for another year. The other decorations would be applied tastefully over the next few days! 

I returned to the conundrum regarding the ability to insert photos into the blog. I found an app which looked promising. I downloaded the free trial and set about testing it. It didn't work. In fact, it no longer seems to support "blogger", despite having been updated in the last week, and being called BlogTouch for Blogger! That was a waste of an hour or so. The real shame is that it seemed so promising!

Zoe dropped by at lunchtime to leave Ellie with us. She was as good as gold (after last night) and played all afternoon. Pete came along soon after 16:00 to collect her. She will be with Pete until Christmas Day now.

We had a quick dinner and then went on our first shopping skirmish. We hit Sainsbury's just after 18:00 and were gobsmacked to find the car park almost empty and the store a pleasure to walk around. We managed to get everything we wanted on this first raid, but another raid is planned for tomorrow morning.