Back Again!

By Wednesday we were getting used to the lazy mornings and making the most of them, it was such a nice day that I wanted to freeze time and keep it like this for ever. I know that Robbie loves his work, but I will really miss him next week and I will not see much of him because he will be busy making up for lost time. It was lunchtime before we were ready to go out, we had one or two errands to do, doctors, chemist etc, but after that we had the day to ourselves. 

One thing that Robbie is very good at is twisting me around his little finger, I find it really hard to say no to him because I want him to be happy. We were chatting about the Doc Shop and the lovely day that we'd had and we both regretted that he hadn't bought the other pair of boots that he liked. They were tan Chelsea boots at such a good price that it seemed like madness to miss the chance of buying them, so we headed back to Wollaston (by a different but equally scenic route) and he had an early birthday present!

We drove home via Castle Ashby, Robbie loved the scenery and the rural shopping yard. He got lots of pleasure from wandering around taking photos. We had only been doing fairly ordinary things but it was such a nice day, I really didn't want it to end. 

The Saga of the Dr Marten Boots

At Christmas I gave Robbie the money to buy some Dr Martens because I didn't feel able to choose on his behalf, I was bound to get it wrong. He enjoyed choosing and finally settled on some cherry red Chelsea boots, when they arrived they had very noticeable grease marks and machine marks on them and they had to be returned. He bought some from another shop instead and they had the same fault, so when he took them back the shop owner checked all the others of that colour and style and they all had the same fault. Since then he has been trying to decide what to buy instead, he has looked around and finally yesterday he found a limited edition pair that he really likes. They are a metallic dark grey colour with red trim, quite sober by Robbie's standards. He was very pleased with his boots but he was even more pleased with the Dr Martens carrier bag - he is just a big kid at heart!