Oh no we didn't!!!

Oh yes we did!!!!  The panto was great fun again.. Pops came too this time (using his Senior Friend discount, lol) and we did more shouting than the kids. Pops made a friend, the little boy sat next to him who took a while to get used to Pops' sense of humour! Biggest boo was when they mentioned Ipswich Town. Biggest cheer from Ma was for the genie.. an ex gladiator not wearing a lot. The magazine scene (which..closer... nuts) and the short shirt scenes were hilarious. Great night out.

Earlier in the day we'd gone to Anglia Square to see if PMT could fix my guitar. However, the technician wasn't there, and the guy said it was likely to cost more (and a lengthy wait) to fix than to buy a new guitar. So, after hitting QD and Greggs! (it's like the Norfolk Shelthorpe in Anglia Square hehe) we went to the city to persuade Ma to buy a coat in the sales (having looked in every shop at least 3 times) and to look in the new music shop in St Stephens. Fell in love with an Epiphone Les Paul. Secondhand. Gorgeous. They told me it was a £900 guitar, on sale for £500. So tempted. Dad tried to persuade me. Probably would have... but just quickly googled it on my phone. Quickly realised it was rip off of the century!!! So... have fallen in love with a Les Paul Ultra III, and found it cheaper new online... Christmas money, plus rob a bank and...

Editing... getting confused. Asked Ma to tell me the dates we did things. They don't match up with mine. Am not suprised. Should have not been lazy and blogged at the time.

Ma says that:
4th I went to the Job Centre and you and dad were in the city. Met you in Jarrolds and bought my red duffle coat. Did we have chips and peas on the market that day?

Yes Ma, we did. I think Pops was also very very kind and paid the bill in Millets. Once we made it inside the shop... Dad being a pratt for a change and pushing and pushing, then seeing the actual door one metre to his left... I started off with a bargain water bottle reduced from £12 to 3. Ended up with a pile of stuff. All absolute bargains, all really useful, but a bit 'eek' when she totalled it up. Thanks Pops.

This isn't all Millets.. but several trips to the City. Started off being really good.. got worse.

Getting even more confuddled. Ma says "3rd We walked Geocaching in Aylsham and went round Lesleys and stayed for tea"

Panto is completely missing from her itinerary. Ah well, it matters not. At some point we went caching around Aylsham. And we were crap. We faffed all morning (probably I read Little Dorrit and played Kinect while they faffed..or turned into teenagers.. Ma in the back room on the PC, Pops in the playroom on the laptop!.. at one point I skyped Pops in the next room... very Argos blue alien, incidentally they were the best adverts this year .. cup of tea? on the tablets, and 'tweeting him as we speak' and 'Mum sorts all the presents.. what even her own.. arrgghh!' oh, and the john lewis snowman getting the scarf for snowgirl, with the new version of power of love song.. anyway, where was I?.. ) so not long left in the day by the time we got out the door and decided to go to Aylsham because the other caches we had in mind said they required wading. With the recent floods, I didn't fancy swimming. So, found somewhere to leave the car, right by the first cache. Ma stayed in the car while me and Pops completely failed to find the cache. We gave up and went on, via helping Ma over the gate (she was not happy) and me demonstrating a textbook gate vault.

There were 11 caches on the route around that bit of Marriots Way. I think we managed to find two of them. I think we were looking for the fourth in the series when it got dark and Pops was using the torch app to search the trees! Nightfall and Ma's desperation for a pee sent us back to the car, and off to Lesley's.

I should have taken photos of Lesley's house. It's amazing. Last time I was there you had to balance around on joists. It's now finished. And lovely. My favourite things are the 'distressed' floorboards.. they are kind of wavy and feel lovely under your feet. Lesley said I could come back as I polish the floor with my socks. My other favourite thing was the wood burner. One day...

Went round for a pee and maybe a cuppa.. ended up staying for tea! Even pizza seems posh when its served in an amazing kitchen.. and with a mixed salad (she must have followed the suggestions on the box hey Ems?!) oh, and we did rather better on celebrity mastermind than we did on University Challenge!