We let Sophie have a lovely lie-in this morning and when she woke up, she opened her cards and presents for her 25th birthday. I think she did very well, receiving a bottle of spiced rum and an ASOS voucher from Keith and me, Champagne from my parents, Honey Bourbon and Prosecco from Mike, and some beautiful glasses from her new manager at work. Is there a theme going on here?!
To our amazement this morning, it started to snow! Very light flurries, but unmistakably snow! It has snowed before on Sophie's birthday, but thinking back to last year when it was so warm and sunny, it was amazing to see!
After a lazy morning, Sophie and I drove over to Milton Keynes to take two boxes of recycling. From there we visited M&S in the main shopping mall to get something for dinner this evening. We had originally planned on going to the coast for fish and chips, but with the weather being so cold, and very windy by the seaside, we'd changed our plans.
M&S was quiet and we were surprised to see that you could shop for clothes, as well as visit the food hall. We trawled up and down the aisles, very conscious of the time we had in the car park, trying to get some inspiration for dinner this evening! M&S were doing an Easter meal for four, but Sophie wasn't impressed, so in the end, we decided to leave it and shop nearer to home later in the day.
From Milton Keynes, we drove to Woburn where we hoped we'd be able to get a coffee and some treats from the only teashop that was doing takeaways. However, when we arrived, to our dismay, we found the car park all shut up... why? What difference could it possibly make? A lot of people were still visiting the lovely little town and walking about in the sunshine (the snow had long gone) so there was obviously a demand for the car park to be open!
We carried on and decided to go and see the deer in the grounds surrounding Woburn Abbey. However, today, there was not one to be seen for miles... it was beginning to be that sort of day! Giving up on Woburn we drove to Olney where we knew there was a Costa open, if nothing else! We managed to park right outside the small Tesco Express and, at last, found something for dinner this evening - two Tesco Finest meals of chicken Kiev, and chicken in a mushroom sauce. We padded the meals out with more vegetables, and headed to the self-service till where everything we put through caused the machine to call for assistance! As there were hardly any staff about, this was a pain and in the end, we had to go through another checkout. By now, we were almost gibbering with rage and definitely needed some sustenance! A large Vodka would have been nice!
We did manage to get a coffee and a toastie in Costa and enjoyed them sitting in the car. Outside, the weather was still beautiful and sunny, and a lot of people were strolling about and enjoying the gorgeous conditions. It was such a shame that hardly anything was open!
I suggested to Sophie that we call into the shopping yard at Castle Ashby on the way home, and I'd treat her to a birthday ice cream, but when we arrived the deli was closed! Sophie ran to the loos but emerged seconds later to say there was no toilet paper! We were now starting to get thoroughly fed up and it wasn't really the sort of day we'd had planned for her birthday!
We did, however, buy an ice cream at Beckworth, and amazingly we arrived there literally ten minutes before they closed for the day. At least we got that right!
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