Mild

It was a mild night compared with the last week or so. I woke early to greet Ellie when she was dropped off. She was in a very chirpy mood and bounced into the house, said hello, then charged upstairs to see Nana. Grandpa was left to prepare her smoothie and her breakfast! When "the girls" came downstairs, I headed up for my shower and when I emerged I was informed that Ellie had forgotten her skin cream, and her books. Grandpa had to go fetch them! Meanwhile, Ellie completed her ablutions and got dressed. Then Grandpa was enlisted to listen while she read from her current books. I dropped her at school and then headed out for my usual walk. As I moved from circuit one to circuit two, Diane drove past on her way to Cardiac Rehab.

Back home I had breakfast and then captured the shopping list on the phone for later. When Diane got back, we headed off to Sainsbury's. It was just as well - we were out of milk, out of snacks for Ellie, and out of fruit. It seemed very busy today, but we had an opportunity to meet the new store manager, Jason, and the RSD, Natalie. It was a big shop today, big enough that we each took a trolley. This worked well, and we may employ the same approach again.

Once home, with everything put away, and lunch over, we settled for an hour in the Orangery with our Kindles. It started to rain just as we prepared to collect Ellie from school, but actually dried up by the time we left the house.

Zoe picked Ellie up at 16:30. She is off to a sleep-over with her "friend" Natalie this evening. This gives Zoe a quiet evening by herself... which is probably well overdue.