Themed visit...

My parents are down to stay with us. (When I say “stay with us”, what I really mean is “stay in a B’n’B about 10 miles away – we don’t have a real spare room, just a sofa bed, and they like to be comfortable. It works.)

They arrived on Saturday, having previously arranged with the owners of the B’n’B that as they were going to be out mid-afternoon, they would leave the key out for my parents to pick up. The keys weren’t where when they arrived, so they came straight round here. The whole thing was finally sorted out and they even managed an early night.

On Sunday we had arranged to meet up for lunch at the local Bella Italia – there isn’t a huge choice for Coeliacs, but they are great with children. We were about 10 minutes late, and couldn’t see them anywhere, so I waited outside while John got a table. Some 45 minutes later they showed up – they’d been there all along, buried deep in the back of the restaurant.

Today we lost part of the newspaper. My mother had read it. My father had read it. They had finished the quick crossword. I had a moment to sit down and look at it – no more than 5 minutes after it had last been seen in my father’s hand. We couldn’t find it anywhere. It was completely and utterly not there. We hunted high, we hunted low. I even looked in the fridge… Eventually, at bathtime, it turned up in the lego box… I SWEAR we’d already looked there!

So this visit’s theme is “Losing things”. We await tomorrow with some trepidation…

four comments:

Gosh. Sounds just like a visit from my parents x

Louise () - 20 November '06 - 22:07

Eek. Hope things improve!

Kat with a K () (link) - 20 November '06 - 22:25

It sounds like the losing things is getting better, not worse, so you should be fine. Right? Right.

We always put every one up down the road too! It’s just so much easier on everyone.

Carrie K () (link) - 21 November '06 - 22:05

It’ll be fine! You’ve just got all the losing things stuff out of the way in one weekend!

Daisy () (link) - 23 November '06 - 20:02

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