Group shopping...

After an exceedingly quiet day at work Sophie and I went home at 2pm. I sat in the garden for a while to soak up some sun and watched the birds visit our feeders. I put out some cheese and was amused to see a little blackbird keep going back to stuff as much into its beak as it could manage! The bird was obviously a fan of mature cheddar!

As soon as Mike arrived home from school he had a shower and then we set off for Milton Keynes as both children needed some clothes and I wanted to have a look as well. The traffic, even at 4pm, was really heavy and getting to the multi-storey car park was a bit fraught! I'm not a fan of roundabouts (Milton Keynes has loads of them!) and some drivers just don't have any patience at all these days!

Mike and Sophie made a beeline for River Island and Keith and I left them to it, sitting outside the shop and watching the world go by. It was much more pleasant! When it came time to pay I went inside to see what he'd bought and he'd picked out some shorts and tee-shirts in readiness for the warmer weather. If it gets colder over the next few days, we'll know who to blame!

We meandered around a few more shops but both Sophie and I agreed that it was difficult to shop with the men about, who were obviously a bit bored with what we were looking at. Keith tried on a pair of shorts and a tee-shirt in M&S but the shorts were far too tight and the top too big so we abandoned that idea and went to Debenhams, leaving Sophie to shop by herself in New Look.

Keith found an exact replica of the clothes he liked in M&S in Debenhams, in the Maine section of the store and tried them on, finding them a perfect fit. We joined our offspring and Sophie had bought some summer clothes in New Look so she was pleased. The only person empty handed was me!

As a treat we all went to Pizza Hut for dinner. The children had garlic bread to start while Keith and I contented ourselves with the free salad. I shared a pizza with Sophie while Mike ordered a large one all to himself! He did take some home in a box, though! Keith had lasagne as he's not really a fan of pizza and a glass of Diet Pepsi! Amazing!