Well, Lois and I are celebrating our 51st wedding anniversary today, but Lois's jaw is still hurting from having one of her molars extracted two days ago, so our usual celebratory lunch at the Buckland Manor Hotel, Broadway, is off the cards, that's for sure.
We decide that today we'll just confine ourselves to the rest of our usual anniversary routine - the afternoon shower followed by the nap in bed bit, and leave it at that for now, hoping to have the lunch bit next week, probably followed by another shower and nap in bed bit. Well you don't have a 51st anniversary every day do you haha!
flashback to 51 years ago: our honeymoon
in the sunny Norwegian mountains
So it's a simple plan for today - all that anniversary celebration above will take up the afternoon, so that's all sorted. And the weather's going to be awful this afternoon and evening anyway here in Malvern, so an afternoon shower and a nap seems like the best solution, and doing that we can shut the weather out, which is a nice thought!
the weather this afternoon and evening - yuck !!!!
And as for the morning, we're going to attempt another major project - to try and fit the Barbie House we bought for our twin granddaughters Lily and Jessica's 10th birthday into the back of our tiny Honda Jazz, so we can take it over to them tomorrow, as a surprise.
We've arranged to spend the day tomorrow with our daughter Sarah and the twins, while Sarah's husband Francis is away for the day, taking part in a golf tournament down in Devon. So we figure it'll be a nice surprise for the twins if we turn up with the Barbie House tomorrow at the family's rental home in Alcester.
the family's rental home in Alcester: Sarah can just be seen,
standing in the open doorway
Last month, when Lois and I bought the Barbie House second-hand from two local builders, the two beefy men took forever to get the little house into our car, mostly because they were arguing about the best way to go about it. You know what builders are like - honestly!!!!
Guess what, though - Lois and I manage to get it in in about 2 minutes flat today. We never argue about the best ways to manoeuvre things till we get them in, you see, and that's the first rule of Barbie House transportation, no doubt about that!!!!
Lois and I manage to load the Barbie House into
the back of our little Honda Jazz in 2 minutes flat
- how's that for a triumph, eh?!!!!!
flashback to last month: the two builders who sell us the Barbie House
waste time arguing with each other about the best way to get it into our car
- what a madness THAT was !!!!!!
20:00 We settle down on the couch to watch the second programme in Alexander Armstrong's new series tracing the history of Buckingham Palace.
Tonight we advance to the time of Queen Victoria and we hear a bit about the preparations for her marriage to Prince Albert in 1840. And food historian Annie Gray tells us a bit about the culinary side of the occasion.
It puts mine and Lois's Golden Wedding cake into perspective doesn't it haha!
Even if nothing seems to be much happening on their stake-out, at least tonight Officer Hendy seems to be getting somewhere with his pursuit of the lovely April, one of the two women in Police HQ who answers their very occasional calls.
Luckily April is bored too, and she tells her supervisor Carol that she hasn't had a call in 3 hours.
And at last Officer Hendy comes up with a joke that seems to tickle April's fancy - humour is the best way into a woman's heart, he thinks.
Can't you see, at last April's laughing, Hendy? Quit while you're ahead, won't you!!!
Button it right there, Hendy, you idiot! But he doesn't of course - and he goes on to talk about some of the fluids he's encountered in his job, a lot of them not very nice. What an idiot !!!!
Poor April !!!! And poor Hendy haha !!!!!
Better luck next time, Hendy haha !!!!!
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!
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