We also did a top-up shop at Morrisons - nothing terribly exciting!
In the afternoon we were invited to Windsor for tea - we had not know what sort of meal to epect so our shopping had included a stir-fry for the evening. Andrew had also been invited and arrived shortly after ourselves having driven back up from Devizes.
We were met with an apology that the planned pie hot meal was not available as they had been rather distracted. Geoffrey, their new ginger cat, had had a close encounter with a car, just as they were coming back into the house after having been shopping. They all watched as Geoffrey seemed to be hit head-on by the vehicle as he dashed across the road to greet their return. However, when the car had passed there was not cat - he had run off into one of the nearby gardens.
It took Adrian some time to crawl through various prickly undergrowth to track him done. Nothing seemed broken or missing but just in case Adrian took him off to the local vet who pronounced him bruised and very lucky!
Mike was introduced to Scratch a simplified programming environment for simple interactive animations (http://scratch.mit.edu/) which seems is popular with scholls and Alice was already well into. She showed her grandad how to use it and then left him to 'play' on his own! (yes, we know - photos from a laptop screen are nothing like a proper screen shot!)
Geoffrey's adventures meant that we had a cold meal - but there was plenty all round and some especially tasty bread. Just a tiny morsel of Ellie's brownie cake was left - by the time we had finished there was none at all left.
Alice is having her bedroom re-equipped as befits someone now at Middle School and in need of a proper desk - a good laptop arrived on Christmas day, another essential for homework these days.
As a result - so that Adrian and Joanna can go to IKEA we will have Alice and Jess for another couple of nights from tomorrow with the possibility of a cinema trip on Monday.
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