I had a phone call from my Dad early on, though, saying that he and Mum had changed their minds about going to the new care home and wanted to stay where they were. As you can imagine, I wasn't happy as I'd arranged a van to collect their sofa on Monday 1 November and bring it home to store. I told them to make a decision by this evening, as I needed to let everyone know what was happening.
I had a horrible headache this morning, which didn't help matters, but I took some tablets and we stopped on the way to Milton Keynes to have a coffee and pastry from Costa. Maybe, on reflection, today wasn't the best day to visit Ikea as it was half-term and the place was heaving. We abandoned any idea of visiting the restaurant and just plunged into the showrooms straightaway.
We managed to find a suitable shelving unit for the shoes, as well as lots of bits and bobs for the house, including candles, a new vase, a doormat, curtains for the spare room, wine glasses and storage jars. We weren't that impressed with the Christmas decorations and didn't like the gonks that were for sale. Hopefully, we'll find a new one in Mallorca!
We queued for ages to go through the checkouts, and when we got there, an assistant told us we hadn't got both boxes for the shelving unit, so we had to go all the way back! Just our luck!
By now we were all a bit peckish, so we took the A5 to Weedon and went to Darlington's for a very late lunch. It was 3pm so Sophie and I shared a Club sandwich, while Keith munched on a well-stuffed turkey one. Which reminded me... were the turkeys at Beckworth?
We decided to go and find out, so we took a very long, winding route to Mears Ashby, driving through some gorgeous scenery with leaves flying about madly in the wind. It was all very Halloweenie!
At Beckworth, there were no turkeys, so it looks like they may be a bit late this year. There is talk of our traditional Christmas bird being imported from France or Poland this year because of the shortage of poultry workers!
Back home we hung the new curtains in the spare room and put one of our floor lamps in there. It looks very cosy now and will keep on looking better once we decorate and buy new bedding.
Sophie prepared dinner of beef tacos and we hung out in the kitchen all evening. We were looking forward to the new series this evening, Universe, presented by Professor Brian Cox, which was showing at 9pm on BBC2. It was great and extremely interesting, but I think I only understood about half of it!
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