I went up to the bank to fix the currency mistake then back to John & Ann's to load up the car and we set off with Mum in her car on the long drive west to Pandy.
We stopped after an hour, at Baldock services, and ended up staying 45 minutes while Emily played on the play equipment. Though it was less than an hour from there to Bletchley we pulled in there at Dobbies garden centre, which is really a huge emporium selling many other things as well as plants. Emily was very interested in the toys and the wind chimes, but we got her to come and have lunch. Only the lure of a new miniature wheelbarrow could extract her from the wendy house in the restaurant.
She fell asleep soon after we got on the road and I drove all the way to Tewkesbury before she woke up again. Unfortunately she worked herself up into a state on waking so I had to pull off the M50 and Mum drove the rest while I tried to calm her down in the back. We made it to Mum's around 4.30, to find Fi, Fern and Charlie already settled in and tea cooking. The girls wasted no time in pulling out all of their toys and books and were not in bed until 8.30, by which time I was ready for bed too.
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