Group hug!

Sophie and I went to the hospital with Mum and Dad this morning as he had an appointment with the physiotherapy department. We dropped them off at the entrance and managed to enlist some help with getting a wheelchair for him to use, although he seemed quite happy to use a crutch to walk!

We sped home and planned the menu for the week, deciding to cook homemade beef burgers and make our own baps on Sunday. We're a bit fed up with chicken dishes! Just as we finished Mum called again and we went to pick them up and take them home. Dad seemed OK but looked a little tired from his extertions. He must keep on doing his exercises!

Keith had been for a walk but he wanted to come to the Weston Favell Centre with us so we drove over there and I bought some toys for the children in Wilco's. We decided to treat ourselves and we had a McDonald's for lunch...I can't remember the last time we did that, so it was lovely to enjoy a cheeseburger and fries.

As Sophie and I had the drive-thru, Keith drove and took us to uni as Sophie wanted to take a bottle of wine in for a member of staff who had helped her with her dissertation so Keith parked the car and we walked over to where she studied. By now, the previously grey and horrible weather had given way to sunshine and blue skies and it was lovely to see where Sophie had spent the last three years and she was obviously proud of the building and the library. It was a beautiful airy and light part of the campus and was immaculately clean. The uni is moving to a new campus in September, right on the riverside in Northampton but I couldn't see anything wrong with the present one!

We met one of Sophie's lecturers and had a great chat which became a bit emotional after he sang her praises. She has worked extremely hard and put an enormous amount of effort into her studies so she deserves to do really well. Grant, her lecturer, became a bit emotional as well so we had a group hug. It was lovely and I felt really proud of her.

I gave out the toys at after-school club and I think they lasted about half an hour. I'd bought two bubble bottles, a discus and a velcro bat and ball set which kept the children entertained for a while but the discus ended up on the school roof!