Yes, you're right I should have warned you that I was likely to go 'awol' yesterday seeing as it was the Memsahib's birthday. I gave her a special treat by taking her shopping - no, no, not to dress shops, and certainly not to jewelry shops but down to the supermarket. Mind you, given the special occasion I took her to Waitrose - for the benefit of my foreign readers Waitrose is an awfully posh supermarket - and agreed that she could buy a 'heat 'n' eat' meal to give her a night off from cooking my usual five course dinner. I know, I know, I'm all heart!
Actually, her real birthday treat (and mine!) is next week when we're going over to Bath for a suitably elegant lunch and then to a matinee performance at the Theatre Royal of Tom Stoppard's greatest play, Arcadia. Alas, I fear that an early start will be insisted upon in order to allow a morning of 'shop-cruising', Bath being possessed of an infinite variety of shop establishments designed to please the ladies and impoverish the gentlemen!
