Busy day!

Today was a day off for me as we were meeting friends for lunch at one of our favourite pubs. The children went off to school in the morning, Keith went off to Tesco and I was alone in the house, for the first time in ages! I made myself a delicious cup of coffee and savoured the peace and quiet by researching my family tree until Keith arrived home.

We had a very pleasant morning and then drove over to Sutton Bassett to the Queen's Head to meet Bruce and Hermione. I used to work with Bruce at Duncan's shop and we had a lovely lunch in the pub which was very quiet despite the gorgeous weather. Bruce and Hermione are really lovely people and we had a great chat about lots of things, including the time Bruce and I worked together in the wine shop.  As we said goodbye we arranged for them to come to our house for dinner with my parents, which will be great. The food was delicious and the portions huge so we virtually waddled out of the pub and drove home for a wee nap on the sofa!

In the evening I'd booked for Keith and I to go to see Milton Jones at Northampton's Derngate theatre which we'd been looking forward to for ages. Milton Jones is a comedian specialising in one liners who regularly appears on Mock The Week. We arrived in good time at the theatre, had a drink before the show and found our seats which were very good and, for me, brilliant as there was nobody sitting in front of me at all so I had a great view of the stage!

The show was enjoyable, but Keith and I didn't find it as funny as we'd anticipated. It was split into three parts, one of Milton Jones appearing as his grandfather, then he was followed by a young comedian called James Alcaster and then the second half was just the man himself. Unfortunately we sat next to a very strange couple who were determined that he was going to notice them one way or another, whether they made complete fools of themselves or not, and he did notice them! Well, he couldn't really fail to as they made a comment after nearly everything he said! I suppose MIlton Jones was used to coming up against people in the audience like that but I would have been mortified if my partner had behaved in that way!

After the show we headed home to relieve my mum of her baby-sitting duties. Normally the children would have been fine on their own, but I was more relaxed knowing that my mum was with them should anything go wrong. Sitting in a theatre full of people and a good thirty minutes from home made me a little anxious!