We have a visitor coming -we are having our youngest granddaughter to stay tonight, so this morning my wife spends time cleaning, tidying and “child proofing” our cottage – I do help out (a little) by vacuuming downstairs and constructing the fireguard (not that we have any intention of lighting the fire, but it will prevent our granddaughter from falling onto the slate hearth and doing herself a mischief).
We drive over to Hevingham just after lunchtime to collect her (and all of the accompanying paraphernalia), and then return to Southrepps (via North Walsham for shopping purposes).
I’m feeling fatigued and out of sorts, as if I’m coming down with something – I woke up with such a splitting headache that I took some paracetamol before I’d even had a cup of tea, so I must be feeling rough! It’s just as well that our youngest granddaughter is a very laid-back and contented child – I don’t think I could cope with one that screams and cries just at the moment.