A quieter less stressful day today thank goodness. Up at the crack of dawn (7.55) because we were expecting the plumber to do a couple of the snags jobs.

Bev took Monty for his walk which was a nice break for me and meant I could get straight on with my work after breakfast. Dragged Charlie from his bed at 8.30.

Worked my socks off and managed to finish by 12.00 exactly and then we had lunch....

Whizzed round Sainsburys after lunch to get the last bits of food for Charlie's party on Sunday, and all the usual party stuff.

I walked the nutty puppy after that - he really hates walking by the road - such a scaredy cat.

When I got back Charlie did his Maths and English workbooks whilst I cooked dinner.

Charlie has spent most the day looking at the pack we got from the RNLI which included a fab CD-Rom that he has loved doing all sorts of stuff on. So far he's found a grab bag list maker, some amazing mapping thingy of various harbours and oceans plus first aid videos to watch. The leaflets have been really good too. He chose the diving pack, personal watercraft and sailing ones. All highly educational if any of you have children into the sea/sailing/ocean etc.

Tomorrow we are off to Oxford (so hate the place) as Charlie chose it for his birthday treat. We're going to the Natural History Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum and he is dying to go round all the huge book shops.