Alice arrives home, with her grandparents and Biscuit, both excited and tired at 3.30. I had got in from work about 10 minutes earlier, and Trx had only come in half an hour before that from Tesco. My doing the Big Shopping hasn't worked out yet - I just cannot seem to find the time.
She's been swimming and to the cinema during her stay, and has been really silly and annoying since she got home.
No doubt made worse by seeing the new bunk beds and her transformed (and tidy) bedroom. Mum and Dad seemed tired but have obviously enjoyed the experience. They seemed impressed by our bedtime routines and the organised, efficient way things just get done. We can't really be anyhting else when there are so many of us!

All is quiet now. I can get down to reading some stuff I picked up from the Church warden yesterday on redundant churches.

Listened to Enchanted inthe office today, selected at random on iTunes. Its never been one of my favourte of Marc's albums and is 'shallower' than some, but there are as usual, some really clever and beautiful songs on there. Like Death's Diary, and the beatuiful Toreador in The Rain. ALways liked Widows Weeds too, which I imagine to be a very difficult song to sing. The lines seem too long and go right across the bars and stuff, apparently all over the place - but the effect is amzing and proves his talent again. A Lover Spurned is an epic single.