Celebration day

Well the Gorse Fox seems to have survived another year. He's making the most of this by opening cards and responding to countless online wishes. He's clearly a very lucky chap.

We popped in to Chichester this morning. As discussed yesterday, the Gorse Fox needs some new comfy walking shoes and the Silver Vixen said that she would buy them for his Birthday. We headed for Clarks (despite yesterday's phone calls). Over the year the Gorse Fox has learned that Clarks are consistently the most comfortable shoes for his feet, so he rarely looks anywhere else. He handed the assistant the list of shoes he had created yesterday and she scuttled off to get them. As it happens none of the suited, but another pair he saw in the shop looked ideal and once tried the Gorse Fox decided on them.

We then headed to M&S as he had received some money as a gift. Just as Clarks is his "go to" place for shoes, M&S is is "go to" place for virtually everything else in the menswear category. (Thinking about it, between Clarks, M&S, and Amazon he is just about set for all his shopping needs). Anyway, to cut a short story even shorter, we left clutching a nice crew neck sweater.

We stopped for a lunchtime snack at Crispin's then grabbed the bus home. The Gorse Fox has had a nice chat with Cousteau-Cub this afternoon and she says the temperature in Phi Phi at present is 39C and expected to get hotter in the next 10 days. Sounds lovely!

We're meeting up with Jane and Trevor for dinner tonight, so that should be fun as we always have a good chinwag.