Good times..

..went to Plymouth shopping on Sunday, with my 3 girlies. It was kind of a birthday shopping treat for the eldest. but we haven't been all together in a while, so I booked some train tickets (in advance.. First Class, free drinks, £33 return for 4 of us.. sorted!) We arrived to find sales on in almost all our favourite stores.. go girls!

Used my old faithful Tesco vouchers and had fabulous salad centred Pizza Express for lunch, then more shopping.. bought lots of stuff for all of us.. staples as well as special bits and pieces..including my last minute impulse buy of a tie-die Maxi Dress!  Well, impulse buy to some extent, but aided and abetted by Lisa's comment of 'flattering'.. it had better be..(remember the last impulse buy?..the black paisley number.. still in wardrobe, waiting for a braver day!)

Not forgetting the boys.. they had their treat this evening....fish barbecue and I made a banana cake. No time to allow it to cool it got dished up with clotted cream and is now to be our special banana pudding! 
Zac is such a 'guy', I was telling him how to make the cake and he said that after the first two ingredients he came over all weak and 'kryptonited' like when he has to go shopping.  No worries, I have similar experience when I ask a guy to explain the difference between 2-stroke and 4-stroke bikes, I stop listening before they finish the first sentence! (apparently there is a sexy way to know the difference but 'cos it was about an engine I still can't remember!)

It's been such a great spell of weather, I hope we don't all start moaning as soon as the dull days return..it's been so good to sit outside and eat, it's still warm at 9pm.

Always impressed with my Col, I went with him today to visit a customer in Bideford. It was a long drive there and back, but good to realise how hard he works when he's away. We were shown around the factory and saw three very different jobs we need to make equipment for..diagrams to make, ideas to discuss and measurements to take, all in a noisy factory with a busy guy who believes you can deliver the goods!

Afterwards I tried to imagine doing maybe three more hours driving and two more similar troubleshooting calls, in one day.... not surprising he sometimes looks a little bleary eyed after a week away, or just cannot recall a particular site from another.