Saturday working

Sophie gave me a lift to work today and went to the gym to use the treadmill. I arrived in the office to find Shirley already at her desk and the wallboard on, which was a bonus!

I was hoping for a quiet shift so I could concentrate on emails, but we took over 100 calls in our five-hour session. Most of the calls were asking about making a booking for our soft play centre, and enquiries about swimming. Outside, the weather was horrible - grey, cold and drizzly. Typical February weather! If the half-term holiday is the same, we'll be busy then as well!

Sophie picked me up at 2pm and we went home to have a delicious lunch that my daughter had prepared. Soft granary bread stuffed with chicken, sundried tomatoes and mozzarella, served with Mediterranean couscous. We even had a small glass of wine with lunch as we had no plans to go anywhere else today! Bliss!

I sat and read the paper and had a nap at about 4pm as I haven't been sleeping well lately. I put my new Loop earplugs in and I was a little disappointed with them as the noise reduction was hardly noticeable.

At about 6pm, Sophie and I played cards while Keith sat at the kitchen island with us and watched Newcastle play Birmingham in the FA Cup. It was a bad-tempered game with some atrocious tackles from Birmingham, but Newcastle won 2-3, so they're through to the next round.

Sophie was still full from lunch so she didn't have any dinner. She was supposed to have been going out with a couple of work colleagues this evening, but had declined because of her headache, so Keith and I shared a Tesco Finest meal which was perfect. We opened a bottle of Rully, and after it had aired a little, it was delicious. We just wish we'd had another bottle to open! We will have to go back! A Rully red wine used to be notoriously difficult to find in the UK and we enjoyed it years ago at a restaurant in Brixworth called The Post House, which is long gone. The owner would never tell us where he bought it from! I can now see it available in Waitrose for £31.00 or Majestic for £24.99. Thankfully, we paid less than that in the village!

After dinner, we enjoyed a couple of hours of music on BBC2 - Heartbreakers and then Love Songs! A perfect end to an enjoyable day!