Shopping and Lunching

The rest of the weekend continued to be very pleasant. The weather on Sunday was intermittently rainy so, having had our sunny walk the day before, we spent Sunday in town shopping and lunching. I would like to be able to say that we had planned it this way according to the forecast, but in fact we had made our arrangements weeks ago, so we were just lucky!

James and I are not big shoppers but this turned out to be a useful and pleasant trip. The secret of a good shopping trip for us lies in planning, decisiveness, and speed. We both had items to exchange in different shops, then we met up and chose a pretty blouse and matching scarf in John Lewis for Grandma's birthday.

By the time we had achieved this mission it was time to go for lunch with Heather and Ewan; a very nice way to end our shopping trip. We all met up in Prezzo and had a good chat and a delicious lunch. I chose the chicken, bacon and avocado salad and it was gorgeous - but more calorific than I expected! 630 calories to be precise! I cannot regret it because I enjoyed it mightily.

As a result I awarded myself only a very small portion of the Chinese meal that we ordered in later to celebrate Grandma's 84th birthday. Grandma seemed to enjoy herself and we of course had birthday cake and sang Happy Birthday. It was a nice occasion. After tea we all looked at some of Ally's holiday photos. He and Cat have organised them into sections which is useful because they have more than 4000 in total. We looked at the first two sections; Dubai and Bangkok. Two very different cities but both looked fascinating.