Gin Rummy

JR and I picked up H and headed for Fareham.  It's a dull, cool and overcast day.  We park up and head for coffee.  We're in a low key shopping mall but it's nice enough and at least it's mostly warm and definitely dry.  JR and H both indulge in purchases and I enjoy acting as personal shopper to them both... not that they need me. 

After spending an eon deciding what to have for lunch and practically adopting an old lady in the queue and walking her through the menu choices and prices of everything, (it's taken her an hour to get here on the bus, she's lost without her car, thank God they took away her licence when they did, and the mall wasn't even built the last time she was here,)  we all have jacket potatoes for lunch with various fillings, then it's back to H's for coffee and a biscuit.  JR and I head home before we all fall asleep in the conservatory.  We relax for a while then JR makes dinner, she's already started it, it's a Slimming World recipe for "Buttery Chicken."  I have to say that it in no way tastes "buttery," but it is totally delicious and I've already requested it for the next time I'm down. 

We watch "Chain Reaction," the old Keanu film,  I've seen it a few times before but not for a while and JR ahs never seen it.  It's gone 11pm when we head to our rooms, I've had a sleeping tablet so I go to sleep quickly but I'm awake again by 5am.

So it's Saturday morning finally, (I kept thinking that yesterday was Saturday.)  S&H, our friends from Hampstead Heath, are moving shortly and we're all congregating at the new house in Farnham while we catch up and they measure up.  The new place is gorgeous.  It's big, but not so big that it doesn't feel like a home and it has beautiful high ceilings, my favourite.  The light is just beautiful in every room. 

We have a catch up and JR and H and I aim to keep baby, (2.5 year old A,) occupied while Mummy and Daddy measure up.  After the grand tour and a little play time, we all headed to a pub 5 minutes away.  I chose ham and cheese on granary.  It was a little too much bread for me, more than I'm used to anyway, but it was very nice and it was good to all, sit down and eat together, it must have been three years since we last did that.

After a lovely few hours, after A sang "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and a bit of  "You Are My Sunshine," (my favourite,) we said our goodbyes.  JR and I dropped H off at home and we headed back.

Just after 7pm and H&M arrived.  We dined together, watched the highlights of Trooping of the Colour then played cards together.  It must be 25 years+ since I last played Gin Rummy but it was fun, then we finished off with "sevens."

H&M left around 11.30pm and I crashed into bed again, going out like a light.  Sunday tomorrow and I need to be up early.