9th February, 2007

Friday 9th February………rings a bell. Oh sugar…it’s Sophie’s birthday. Help! Actually it’s not as bad as it seems. I had remembered and bought what I think is a really lovely present. Boys, let me know if you need any ideas. Unfortunately what I had forgotten was to buy a something for each of the children to give their mother. Hen, I have no doubt, will have fabricated some rubbish in woodwork classes. Jimmy had bought something herself. She’s the second child and very conscientious. Bob is giving Mum a Mulberry key ring in the shape of a Daschund dog that I had bought as a little extra. But Lottie, our 6 year old, had failed to come up with anything, hopeless case that she is. No worries. Talk about using your initiative. Under a pile of Decanter magazines and dressage instruction booklets, I found a virtually untouched Dick Francis novel, the inside front cover of which is now scribbled on in Lottie’s fair hand and which may just fool the old dear.