Monday, 16 July 2012
Family and a friend for the end of the World!
Wake at four when Louis changes beds and comes in for a cuddle, which is very nice, except Louis wriggles like a worm in bed and can't stand the duvet over him. Consequently I keep waking up with a frozen shoulder as he has uncovered me and sleep in fits until we get up at seven thirty. Sarah's boyfriend Richard is collecting Louis between ten and eleven and driving him over to Harrogate, where they are meeting Sarah. Richard's sister lives in Beijing, where her husband is some sort of executive for an FMCG company and they are back in Harrogate for a few weeks. I make a full English breakfast for everyone and then wash and dress before running Louis a bath and then dressing him for his weekend away. Richard arrives at a quarter to eleven and, once we have seen Louis safely on his way, Alice and I decide what to do with our Saturday. Eventually we settle on seeing a new film with Steve Carroll and Keira Knightly, "Seeking a friend for the end of the world". Show time is at a quarter to two so I arrange to meet Alice at the library cafe at one and then drive back to Tickton. The sun is shining as I hang out my couloureds and I sit in the garden with a pot of tea and peel some vegetables that need to be eaten and then put them in the slow cooker with some beef and onions and put them on a low setting. Tomorrow evening I shall have a beef casserole. I drive to Beverley and park by the Memorial Hall and then walk the short distance to the Library on Champney Road. I return my book and Louis' dinasaur book and then take out three for myself before making my way to the cafe for one. There isn't much choice but they offer to toast a fruit teacake, so I order that with tea and Alice orders the same when she arrives a few moments later. After our snack we drive to Kingswood and are seated in the cinema five minutes before show time. The film is awful, the script dire, and after half an hour I am willing the meteor, that is about to destroy the Earth, God speed. When we get outside it is starting to spit with rain so we drive back to Tickton in the hope of bringing in my washing before the rain arrives. Although my house is less than five miles North of Kingswood, the sun is shining in Tickton and we recover the washing and secure it in the Garden Room. I drop Alice back at North Bar and then drive round the corner to Copandale Road for five O'Clock where I am scheduled to baby sit my son's two girls, Laura and Rebecca, whilst their mum helps out at the school disco. When I get there I find they haven't eaten as their mum assumed they would be having tea at Tickton and I thought they were eating at home.The problem is soon solved, a quick phone call to Alice and we all end up back at the Hayride. Alice and I have steak and chips, Laura, chicken nuggets chips and beans and Rebecca has her usual garlic bread. It is lovely being out with all my granddaughters and Laura loves talking girly stuff with her big cousin, Alice. I drop the girls back at Sam's, then Alice and I head back to North Bar where I take Norman, Alice's dachshund, for his evening toilet walk down Seven Corners Lane. I bought Norman for Alice when she was a baby, they are both fifteen years old. When I get back Alice is talking to her friends about their trip to London. Her friends mum is collecting her before nine so we will have to be up bright and early. I read my new library book, an historical fiction about Saxon England until bedtime and turn in at eleven.
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