Premium Bonds

 I was up and about soon after six. I was delighted to find that Jasper had left me a foul-smelling package in his litter tray. This required immediate attention if I planned to breathe through my nose over the next hour. Having sorted out this early morning gift and sprayed the downstairs with copious amounts of air freshener, I finally settled down with a coffee.

We walked to Zoe's and collected Ellie for the stroll to school. Leaving her as she charged into the classroom, we both went home. There was no early morning walk as it was pouring with rain, but it was scheduled to stop mid-morning. I decided to wait. After some breakfast, I attacked the pile of shirts that required ironing and then, with the weather dry and breezy, set out on my walk. My second coffee of the morning called an early end to the walk, but I had been out for an hour.

Diane has been having trouble logging on to the site where she buys Premium Bonds for Ellie. We tried to resolve this a while back, but we were unsuccessful. I decided this was not going to be a problem any longer. I set up a separate user account for her on my MacBook, and using that account, we logged on to NS&I correctly (the issue, it appeared, was the expectation of her user name being in capital letters, not mixed case). Anyway, the problem is now resolved, and a backlog of payments has been paid into Ellie's savings account.

We had some Kindle time after lunch, before collecting Ellie from school. Having taken her home, we returned home for a quiet hour before I had to take Ellie to football training with the boys of Sussex Rangers. Again, she did well, but didn't get stuck in quite as much as she did on Saturday. It will come as her confidence increases and she realises that she is just as quick as the boys. I must say that by 19:00, when the training finished, I was beginning to feel quite chilly, and even Ellie was complaining of the cold.