We had a late night last night, not getting home from babysitting duties until almost midnight, and by the time we had had baths and got into bed it was after 1am. I didn’t feel much like getting up when my wife’s alarm went off at 8am, but we are all (my wife and I, her two sons and their partners, our two granddaughters and my wife’s ex-husband) going on the Bure Valley Railway Santa Special from Wroxham to Aylsham this morning (it’s for the kids – honest!). We have to leave Southrepps by 9.15 to be at Wroxham station at 9.45, so I drag myself out of bed at 8.30am and manage to guzzle my two mugs of tea before having to leave the house. The grandchildren have a fabulous time, and the adults enjoy a leisurely ride through some fantastic scenery. The weather was kind to us, and the sun was shining throughout.
We return to Southrepps mid-afternoon and get on with the usual Saturday tasks – my wife attending to the laundry and changing the bed, while I split some kindling and logs, fill the log basket and vacuum downstairs.