WENT TO THE BUTTERFLY CABINET...

... for breakfast this morning - us, Jim and Claire, Helen and Bill, Rachel and James and Hannah. Great to see everyone. Ate far too much. wasn't altogether impressed by the service - half of us having finished our brekkie before the others had got theirs wasn't good. But, arrangements made for meeting up mid-week to go late night 20% off shopping at Fenwicks and then for Charles and I (and the girls) to go and stay with Helen and Bill next weekend. Got home, via Waitrose and Bookers (one extreme to the other!!) only to discover that our fridge in the kitchen had exploded and spewed it's contents all over the floor. Unfortunately most of the stuff in that fridge was in glass jars and bottles, so you can imagine the level of debris we had to clear up. Glass mixed with olives, sauces, dips, jams and marmalade - oh yes it was brilliant. The poor girls must have been petrified. Charles reckons a big piece of ice dislodged and brought the shelf crashing down, so clearly it's my fault for not noticing that it needed defrosting!! However, we now have a spotlessly clean floor and the fridge has had it's pre-Christmas clear out already, so all is not doom and gloom.