Boxing Day trip to Norwich to watch Norwich lose out to Tottenham with Jim in an exciting match at Carrow Road.
Home to Paxton to find Debbie’s new mountain bike stolen having been left outside.
After the late Christmas Eve and early Christmas Day, it was a priority to get a long night's sleep and a pleasure to get a lay in for a while this morning.
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In the end, it was me that woke and got up first, bringing Diana a coffee to be friendly. First in the bathroom afterwards and then breakfast before taking Sam for a walk.
Another mild day and a pleasure to be out on it. I gave him a fair walk and run through some cover to try and find some pheasants but, though he ran well, he found none.
The last of a number of times checking my Norfolk answering machine for messages and then, after getting Diana to make me some sandwiches and snacks for my journey, I set off for Norwich.
I was hoping for a call from Wiggly on the way and it came around 1.15pm, with still plenty of time to chat to her before I met up with Jim.
She had been enjoying her return home with all the family and, apart from having had a car breakdown on the way up to Blackburn, she had no problems and still intended returning on Friday as arranged.
She asked me to pop by her house and to check it was all right and I did this on the way home. I called for Jim in good time and we went on immediately to Carrow Road at my suggestion as the combination of a full house and away fans travelling from Tottenham would make the roads busy.
It was an exciting match in which the visitors scored an early goal and, try as they did, City could not equalise and ended up losing by a further goal when pressing forward in the last minute. The journey home without incident, eating the rest of my sandwiches on the way, and then trouble galore on arrival.
First of all, Diana and the girls were insisting on watching their own programs on the TVs when I wanted to watch the football and then we found that Debbie's new mountain bike had been stolen from outside our front door!
Not only had Debbie left it there all day after taking it out for half an hour this morning, but Diana had spotted the danger of it being left there later and had intended to bring it in but had done nothing about it! It is my continual frustration having a family of idiots.
To bed in a very bad mood at the antics of my family.