Leisurely family day, reading and shopping as Debbie takes a liking to prawns and Daniel is too ill for school

A long lay in this morning as usual for a Saturday and back to bed after breakfast as well. Today, we went off to St Neots with Diana and Debbie, leaving Daniel ill in bed. There to do a range of shopping for food, furniture and a fine watercolour painting of a heron by Alan Fairbrass for £40. At the St Neots Library, I take out a number of local history books on St Neots Urban District Council, Buckden Palace, The Holme Church Boat and other things. Home, after our normal trip to The Happy Eater for lunch. Arrived just in time to see England beat Ireland 12-9 in a Rugby Union International on the television. I speak to Dad today and arrange for us to go over to see Mum tomorrow afternoon which will be fine. I discuss with Daniel and Di yesterday the rising possibility that I could sell Comart for £3M; but they are interestingly negative.

Earlier on, I was mostly reading the morning paper but also reading Samuel Pepys 1664 for the first time for a while. Eventually after suitable relief, I was nagged out of bed at 10.30am to have a quick wash shave and bath before letting out the ducks. I collect 9 eggs in the hutch and a further five underneath but we find that these are bad and must be thrown away. later on, we had a tea of prawns but there were not many for me because Debbie is so partial to them that I get fewer and fewer each time! An evening reading the local history books before getting down to some office work and reading.  Not much by way of changed news today but England win the first one-day cricket test against New Zealand. The weather still clear and frosty by night.