A day of no ordeals

Lorraine and I so happy that there was no major ordeal today. Great to have slept in our own bed, but I was awake lots with this pesky cough that we both got from Pat. Beth and James this morning. Beth burst into tears not long after being here, seeing how happy it had made Lorraine feel, which of course made it all feel more real for us too. They loved it -- Beth already envisaging what Christmases would be like here. 

After they went -- Beth having to work away from home for seven days starting tomorrow, Lorraine and I spent the afternoon unpacking steadily and taking frequent rests and working out what went where and so on. A knock on the door and our next door neighbour, a friendly strong looking man called David who has a building company, introduced himself. Nice guy.

We sloped off to Morrison's, the nearby supermarket, and bought food, cooking a roast chicken  and trying out our oven for the first time. 

Even going to the supermarket feels like a bit of an adventure, and we had a hilarious encounter with the woman at the checkout, who made a not entirely flattering remark about her new neighbours who had just moved from Salisbury Road -- who of course turned out to be the lovely people we bought from. We left laughing, and thinking that this is definitely a small town. Adele said yesterday that you soon get to know lots of people, but if you do anything bad, people will get to know about it. 

Sitting on the gold sofa, tired but very happy tonight.