Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Croissants from a cash machine?

On Saturday, as I was busy working on my computer, my wife and kids set off for the Biggar Show ahead of me. They also took my last £10 note with them so, when I was ready to follow , I first had to pay a visit to the cash machine. Normally the local High Street Bank machine is either out of order or has a long queue on a Saturday but today it had an enormous line of people waiting at it. So I drove on by and went to the Co-Op machine (HEB equivalent) There was no queue there - because it was broken! Oh well, the good thing about the Co-Op is that you can get cash back at the checkout so in I went to find an item of produce, which I did not need other than to justify my presence at the till, .... and that is how we ended up having croissants for breakfast on Sunday.

After breakfast we embarked on a trip to Livingston to buy a present for one of Eddy's little friends who is having a birthday party next Saturday. We arrived at lunchtime, had chicken and chips from KFC, and then braved the Toys R Us store with Eddy and Little Ted. They were very restrained really - for 4 and 2 year olds; but we still didn't manage to get out without buying yet more toys for Eddy and Little Ted as well as an appropriate offering for the birthday gilrl!
On the way home we called in to see Jim, Jean, Mhairi, and Cameron and the kids got to have a go on their new trampoline.
Pictures can be seen at: Fun Day Out

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's so much fun to read about the day's events almost as soon as they happen! I'm glad you again have time to post regularly - I guess this is a measure of how much easier the children are to manage these days. Grand mommy

Tartan Ted said...

I wish