More shopping...

We had another lazy start to the day and at lunchtime. Sophie and I drove over to Market Harborough. The skies were still grey and cloudy, but the temperatures had risen so I was able to open the windows at home and get some much-needed fresh air into the house.

A lot of shops were still closed in Market Harborough, including Sophie's favourite, The Attic. We parked the car and headed for Miller's coffee house, but there were no seats at all. That's the problem with this lovely little cafe, there are only three tables inside and we certainly didn't fancy sitting outside!

We made the decision to have lunch at Pizza Express and we almost didn't get a table there, either, as we were asked if we'd booked, and of course, we hadn't! After some deliberation, we were shown to a table and given menus. The place certainly wasn't packed but maybe they were short-staffed?

We didn't have a long wait, as we'd feared, and we were soon sipping a glass of Chardonnay and eating some delicious dough balls. Both of us were hungry but we shared a pizza, which was delicious and just what we fancied after Christmas.

After we'd eaten we had a look around the shops and Sophie bought a lovely jumper in one of the charity shops. She also bought Zain a charity voucher in Oxfam and some scratch cards and numbers for the lottery. He's so difficult to buy for!

Before going home we called into Farndon Fields, and Sophie bought him some more foodie gifts. I also did a bit of shopping and treated Keith to a sausage roll for his lunch. As we drove home, we actually saw a rare glimpse of the sun! 

Back home I amused myself by doing some chores and bagging up all of our Tassimo pods to take them to a collection point. I'd ordered some Pod back bags before Christmas, and I had enough pods to fill two bags. Sophie went and started packing for her New Year's trip with Zain but we still managed to play a game of Scrabble and tonight I truly thrashed my daughter by over 100 points. It was about time and it did help that I had some high scoring tiles to use!

Sophie cooked our dinner of stir-fried pork in a peanut sauce, and then it was time to relax with Only Connect and University Challenge. We scored 50 points which wasn't bad for just the two of us, and also seeing it was the second round!