Tuesday 23rd Feb

We woke about seven in the morning, grans curtains are a bit on the thin side and it was broad daylight in the room. I went down and gran was already up, i made a coffee and we sat and chatted for a little bit, ant came down a little later. Gran opened her presents and was very taken with the pearls, though we couldn't do the clasp very easily, she then opened her cards. Ant phoned in to scheduling to see what was happening but found out he had not been given a trip until monday. When grans friend Alwyn arrived i asked if we could borrow her internet so we went to her house and booked a ticket on ryan air for ant to come home with me the next day. When we got back we had to wait until gran got ready, Mandy's flowers arrived and then we set off in to town, we said hello to Wendy then went to several shops, gran was very pleased she had managed it, she said last week she could hardly walk to the front door, so it is a great improvement. We got new catches put on the pearls and had a mooch round a card shop, a chemists, a book shop and gran went in to the bank, during which time i saw Diane walking past so we had a chat to her.
All the shopping done we headed out to a pub for lunch, we drove over scouts scar into the lythe valley, the first pub we came to was shut so we carried on to Crosthwaite and went to the punchbowl there, the food was very good if a little pricey, ant had Devon Crab rarebit with twice cooked chips, gran had a twice baked cheese souffle and tempura prawns and i had the twice baked souffle and smoked venison. Gran was pleased with her meal and her and ant wittered on about for a bit. After lunch we headed to Morrisons the supermarket and did a bit of shopping before heading back to grans in time for aunty Ruth to arrive.
When Ruth arrived we set to preparing the food for the evenings party, we did a nice spread, then ant and i went up to get changed, then we all sat and waited. Mandy phoned to say she was not coming which was a bit of a shame. The first to arrive were Barry and Shiela, then Brian and Ruth and then the rest, Kendall arrived a little later as he was pricing up a job. The evening went very smoothly and we all enjoyed ourselves. Everyone had gone by ten in the evening so we sat and chatted for a little while and the got off to bed.