Grandma's Birthday

It has been a busy week so far, yesterday there was an open evening at school so by the time I set off for home I had been at work for fourteen hours! James however has even longer days when he flies up and down to London and Warwick. I worry about how tired he gets. James asked me to pick up him, Forrest and Grandma from Mitchell's restaurant, where they had been celebrating Grandma's 82nd birthday. When I arrived they were all in a happy mood after a good meal. Grandma was very cheery, I think she has enjoyed her birthday with her two boys, and she has also had lovely cards and presents. I joined them for a short while until they had finished their coffee. Home and had a good sleep and felt brand new in the morning. The weather has been beautiful over the last two days, a nice break from the rainy weather. Our television is working again so we watched another episode of Spiral which was very good. However the Internet is still down, and James was furious because the engineer had promised to come back and fix it today but had not turned up. An angry phone call from James to Virgin Media ensued, I left him to it and sloped off to phone Jamie and have a pleasant bath. Jamie is backtracking from his optimistic opinion that his intercalated degree will be much easier than a year of medical studies, and is now saying that his BMSc is the hardest out of all of them with the lowest pass rate. Worrying.

A girl whose accident I witnessed on a roundabout last week phoned me to ask if she can put my name and address as a witness on her insurance claim form, of course I said Yes. Considering where I work it's not surprising that the accident took place on a roundabout! How ironic that I have since had an accident of my own. I'm still waiting to find out when my car will be repaired, meanwhile my hired car is fine and getting me from A to B despite my initial annoyance with the hire company for their slow response. Now I am in bed with Jack on his rug beside me and I am about to continue reading The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal. I am quite enjoying it so far, it's very whimsical and maybe just a wee tiny bit pretentious? It's not fair to decide so soon because I am only on page sixty.