Pootling

Up very late having read the papers, done the word games and chatted over cups of tea. We had some lovely fruit loaf French toast with fresh fruit for breakfast and then I got stuck into buying book festival tickets. I hadn’t realised that there’s a limit on the numbers you can buy before they go on public sale but I managed to juggle options to end up with some interesting events (I hope!).
K was preparing for people coming round this afternoon and we nipped to Tescos to get some last minute things before returning and getting into the prep of cooking and tidying up.
Once everything was done, we spent some time holiday planning and scouring websites and brochures until O arrived with Ot his fast-growing-up little boy. He was straight into finding all the machines that he was allowed to play with the switches, then running around with his toy vacuum cleaner and getting the toy cars out. Once O’s other friends arrived there was lots of chat amongst everyone but Ot seemed a bit overwhelmed and also his voice seemed a bit hoarse….he became a bit withdrawn and tearful and not his usual self so O took him home. Maybe he’s going down with something or maybe there were just too many people. The others all stayed for supper and there was a lot of jolly chat about babies and weddings (they were that age!), families, housing locations and work, old TV programmes and Jeff Bezos’ mum.
Did some Duolingo and watched some TV then bed….this quick snap that I took to send to A&N was the only photo I took today