CHARLES HAS...

... taken the girls over to Shilbottle for their haircut. I WAS going to go with him - honestly - but just wasn't quite ready in time. So now I don't have to witness their distress when they realise where they're going. When he gets back, we need to swap cars and take two deliveries over to Jesmond and Newcastle and then it's back home via Morpeth (shopping and hairdressers for ME!) and Shilbottle to pick up the girls. I'm going to spend the afternoon baking carrot cakes, quiche and painting the cover of one of the Harry Potter books. This could be a complete disaster!!! (The painting, not the baking)