Home again.

Tuesday we went shopping to "dress" the study.
We bought blinds, cushions, lamps & underlay. Not bad ay?
We were still talking at the end of the shopping & very pleased with the results.

Yesterday I finished the church service rota & then set off to see JR in Cambridge, stopping in Coleshill en route to buy lunch & see Kaye Alexander open Coleshill's first charity shop - Mary Ann Evans Hospice (George Eliot, to the uninitiated).
We had pan fried salmon with new potatoes & sugar snaps followed by "Gu chocolate cheesecake".
Not at all bad. Then we enjoyed the hottest day of the year, walking around the garden, pestering the builders, who are refurbishing the window frames & rendering, & chatting.

Today we pestered the builders & the gardener, went to the dentist for JR to have his replacement front teeth checked for fit. This took about 45 seconds after a 15 min drive & 20 min walk.
Dr Quan does rather lack "chair side manner".
A "hello", "goodbye" & a brief explanation of what he was doing would not have gone amiss.
If we go back in 2 weeks we can have them to bring home.
We went on to Saffron Walden for lunch & a potter around, then visited the Nordens on the way home for tea.
I left for home at 5.00pm & did the journey home in record time - two & a half hours ( it usually takes one & three quarter hours).
This was due to the garage having an M&S food store, so I sat in the queue for 15 min whilst the connoisseur from the BMW in front did the weeks shopping & then doing 56mph down the A14 in the outside lane as the trucks played chase.
G has done a lot of clearing up; we have had pasta & a bottle of Slovakian Merlot (where on Earth did that one come from?apart from the obvious) & I'm ready for bed.
J & T tomorrow.