Must... Keep... Going...

Nicole woke up at some unearthly hour this morning, I vaguely noticed. She took the dogs out for a walk up the brook at 6am and we slept on. Eloise woke up when she got back, and I slept on. I got up about 8 o'clock.

We decided that the best strategy for keeping Nicole awake all day was to leap into instant action, so after thinking about it for a while we decided to cruise into town and go to the South Bank park which is a bit of a tourist trap for the locals and features cinemas, museums, an artificial beach, etc.

We toddled along there, and hung around for a couple of hours. Nicole hadn't been there before (I walked through it one fairly dreary day a while ago) and was quite impressed, with the artificial beach in particular which was in good use, and with a Nepalese temple we encountered after a rainforest walk. Eloise had a nice time playing on pipe-slides and spiral slides at a little playground.

We got back and had lunch then we all went to bed for a couple of hours (I put in a couple of hours kip for the sake of solidarity, obviously) then walked the dogs up at the brook again where we met up with some people we have met.

After supper, yes lentils, which Eloise absolutely demolished, and a bath it was off to bed for Eloise and fairly shortly afterwards Nicole who fell asleep after ten minutes on the sofa.

Leaving muggins... I think I'll go and read Harry Pot Pot.