Today has been very busy with a lot of driving about! At least I was able to have a more relaxed start, though, as Sophie didn't have to be at uni until 11.30am this morning as she was having a meeting with her dissertation tutor.
Before we dropped her off, we went to vote in the General Election and then took Mike to his old sixth form building so he could meet up with some of his mates. For a change, we went to Lidl at the Weston Favell centre to buy tonight's dinner as we simply didn't have the time to do a full shop and Keith said he would go tomorrow instead.
Going to Lidl was a mistake. We chose some pork steaks in a Chinese sauce for dinner, as well as some strips of belly pork and I picked two sachets of fried rice to go with them. We didn't have a lot of shopping but we were stuck at the checkout for almost twenty minutes as the till had locked up and the manager started to panic as nothing he did would work. The queue built up behind us and as there were only two checkouts operational, I could feel an angry atmosphere start to develop as people were forced to wait. We very nearly abandoned our shopping on the conveyor belt!
Eventually we went through and decided to pop to Tesco to buy some Chinese accompaniments to go with our meal. I also chose a bottle of wine for tonight as I had a feeling that after today Sophie and I would need a glass or two!
We went back to pick our daughter up and took her to work where she would remain until 6pm. It was then time for Keith and I to dash home, have some lunch and get ready for his pre-op assessment at 4pm.
Just as we were about to leave, Mike called and asked if we could pick him up from college on the way. We were a bit short on time but managed to collect him and get to The Three Shires hospital in time for the appointment. It turned out that Keith would need to stay for an hour so Mike and I went to McDonald's on Riverside as my silly son hadn't eaten anything since breakfast!
Back at the hospital we had to wait a little while for Keith to be finished but he'd been given a thorough overhaul in advance of his operation on Monday. He was a bit concerned about his wallet because he couldn't find it and didn't know whether he'd left it at home or not. This meant we had to speed home in the rush hour traffic where we found it sitting on the table in the living room!
After another journey to go and get Sophie it was lovely to finally get home and relax. Unfortunately our dinner wasn't the best we'd ever had...I think we'll stick to the van in the village if we want a Chinese meal from now on!
Sophie and I saw the news at 10pm and saw that the exit poll forecast that the Conservatives wouldn't get the majority they needed and that it might even be a hung parliament tomorrow...a bit of a shock there, then!
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