An impromptu decision to take the girls to the bus stop by car and then take Diana on to the Queensgate Shopping Centre in Peterborough which was a bit dull it just having chain stores.
Coffee there but lunch at a Happy Eater on the way home where we returned to find Sam somewhat agitated, which was easily solved with a long run and his food.
Some time researching Roe deer stalking, helping Debbie with her homework, and then hearing the poor news from Nigel about Lynn’s hospital procedure.
I arranged for Diana to have my morning cup of tea available much earlier than usual and so went out to feed and walk Sam before breakfast for a change. It was very cold after a night during which there had been a covering of snow and the pup pranced about in this and tasted it, finding the whole thing a new experience. Inside for breakfast and then the impromptu decision to take the girls to the bus stop by car and then take Diana on to the Queensgate Shopping Centre in Peterborough. This seemed to be a good decision to make best use of the chilly day.
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We enjoyed the experience but found the shopping centre a little dull. There are just the national chain stores in these places with nothing out of the ordinary to see. I feel that one day we will have all the shopping centres the same if nothing stops the endless march of the chain stores over the more local and traditional retailers. Coffee there but lunch at a Happy Eater on the way home. We returned to find Sam somewhat agitated, but some food and a long walk were enough to cheer him up again. The rest of the afternoon reading a book on Roe Deer stalking that I had bought in advance of our stalking trip to Caithness in May.
After tea, I kept both girls amused as they had come in tired from school and I then helped Debbie with her Chemistry, teaching her all about Ions and Ionic Bonds. She was having to understand all this, poor thing, without having even being taught the structure of the atom with its protons and electrons. A call to Nigel this evening established that Lynn had gone into Bedford Hospital and had undergone her hysterectomy and would be some time in recovering.