Bank Holiday Birthday Party for Debbie as I write up my Exit Report for Comart and an evening cruising on the river with Daniel in a dinghy
A slow start to the day and cornflakes for breakfast as a welcome change to toast and fruit juice. Then washed and changed to take Daniel to school with Debbie coming along for the ride. It is Debbie’s birthday and we had already seen her opening all of her presents. Amongst them were a wigwam, tape recorder, jigsaw, colouring pens, cartoon slides, dolls, books, decorations, tee shirt, and a dozen smaller gifts from the birthday guests who were to join her for a breakfast tea. A morning’s paperwork including a letter to the planning department about Paxton Broad until out with Diana and Debbie to Bar Hill to collect Sue to help with the party. We had stopped on the way for lunch at The Little Chef. To see how the roads and restaurant were full on this Bank Holiday with everybody on the move and visiting relatives etc. I went off to the office afterwards to prepare my own exit report and note to file on leaving Comart.
I prepared headings for my reasons for going, the reasons for going now, the subsidiary benefits as a result and lastly why my choice for a replacement was the most suitable. Then to collect Daniel from school as the buses were not running on a Bank Holiday and to the riverside park for an ice cream together before going home. To see these thirteen little girls play at party games was fascinating. Sitting in a tiny circle and intent on musical bumps, statues, sleeping lions, pass-the-parcel and all else. And at 3.00pm all thirteen mums came to collect them like clockwork and Diana’s parents arrive to help us finish off the leftovers and take Sue home. A quiet evening trogging around in the dinghy with Daniel, scaling a ladder to see the Blue Tit’s nest complete, and writing up my journal and exit report notes.