A little treat!

I was determined to do something nice today as the past few Wednesdays seem to have been taken up with work, housework or medical appointments!

I suggested breakfast at Beckworth  and Keith agreed so we set off and arrived just before 10am. The restaurant was quiet and we ordered coffee and their "light" breakfast which consisted of the usual suspects - egg bacon, sausage, baked beans, mushrooms, a tomato and a hash brown, served with toast. It was delicious!

Afterwards we mooched about but it was too cold to go outside and look at the plants. We had a word with the butcher as I would like to buy their rolled turkey to have for Easter Sunday. I'm hoping that Dad will be much better and that they can come for lunch, to make up for not having them over on Christmas Day.

From Beckworth we popped to Brixworth and I bought an old-fashioned clothes line prop in the amazing little hardware shop. It is stuffed to the gunnels with everything you can possibly think of for the home and of course, I knew they would have one. Our old one, that Keith made, is broken and I do like to have the line as high as possible to catch the breeze!

Back home we had a couple of hours to kill before it was time to collect Mum and take her to have her nails done. She had thought about cancelling but I said to go as she needed some time for herself. We dropped her off and went to the Weston Favell Centre where we bought dinner for tonight - chicken thighs for a spicy Cajun dish with vegetables and rice.

Once we'd picked Mum up we dropped her off at the hospital and she said she would get a taxi home as by now it was gone 4pm and I really didn't fancy venturing out again in the rush hour traffic this evening.

Tomorrow we have an early start as Sophie is going to a prison in Rochester and we're dropping her off in Thrapston at 6am... and, oh... it's supposed to snow!