Girls ' shopping day.

Christine and I met up at 10.30 once Henry's nanny had arrived. I was able to show her some of my favourite haunts/shops and she contributed very well to the financial welfare of the town!  It felt so good to be able to show her around and feel a part of the place.  She's gone back home now but we had lots of lovely laughs (and a few eye-welling moments) together.  It never ceases to amaze me how we just pick up where we left off a couple of years ago with hardly a break in the conversation.

Christine is reading the blog and as she passed through Paddington station she picked up two Paddington Bear exercise books and four Paddington Bear pencils for our next scavenge hunt.  Spot my "deliberate" mistake, but this was the result.  They were so excited.

Kitty, at just over 5 years old, read me what it said and worked out the answer with a little bit of help from me. She actually worked out two or three of the words before she had finished them.  So 5 minutes later and ...

Result!!

She's now started writing a story about Euro Disney - half a page already!

Tomorrow Gabriel is coming to supper with her two boys ... so I'll be double busy setting one up for them as well I expect.

There's nothing much to report.  Things just plod on.  I've definitely over eaten with Christine so I won't get on the scales for a couple of days.  Rachel will not be pleased ... still I'm on school run for the children tomorrow so hopefully all that walking will average things out in the end!!!