Bunk beds up in Alice and Stan's room this afternoon. Suddenly there is space for a wardrobe - the whole plan is going to work. Stan looks tiny in his first big proper bed though!!
Alice rang from Grandma's while we were in the middle of setting it up - she had them up at half past five this morning!!
She's been nervous and excited about staying over for the first time, and they seemed a bit anxious about it themselves when we dropped her up there yesterday. It's the first time they have ever tried this kind of hands on grandparenting and was always going to be a Big Deal. Seems ot be getting on fine tho.
And they have agreed to bring Biscuit down with them when they come tomorrow afternoon for what will be her first visit here on her own. She's excited about that too and really pleased she can stay till Friday, although I will have to work myself a couple of days in between times. I was rather hoping to get in this evening too, at least to clean up a bit if nothing else, but that isn't going to happen now. We only got in from pizza Hut an hour ago after a meal that took 2 and a half hours! The service was really crap and it took 40 minutes from being seated until someone came to take our order. Luckily, Kate and Fin turned up just after us so we had someone to catch up with in the meantime.
Too slow tho - just not enough staff.
Not like Kuti's on Frdiay night. Too many stuff - creepy waiters hanging round the table all evening throughout what was actuallya very disappointing meal. haven't been in there for two years, and now I remember why. Massively over-rated I think and the food is never particularly exciting. I did go with the wrong attitude tho. It was a night out with as many of the 'men from church' as wanted to come and there ended up being 13 of us. I don't do male company very well as a rule in numbers other than one or two, and it was difficult.
My problem I guess is that I don't really do engines or sport as I know diddly squit about either! Not desperately hot on computer games, or world affairs. Much more at home in a group of women talking about more 'trivial' interpersonal things.
Does bring Steve Biddulph's philosophy into focus tho' and makes me realise how much I need to work on this...

I need to read something. Since I kind of decided not to do the Book Group, I have wandered a bit. Still have two or three biogs to read but can't start them either. Finished the Book of Acts a couple of days ago, but that doesn't seem to count. It's Graham Swift's Last Orders for the first Wednesday in March and then, apparently, its my choice. I'll maybe go and pick it up from town tomorrow.
Unless I can find it online?

Found a good set of half a dozen pics of John at Camber Sands last April: