Alison, Grace and Olivia over for the weekend

We pottered around in the morning getting jobs done before setting out just after 11.00am to go and collect Alison, Grace and Olivia from Bill and Junes house. They were over here for a couple of days before flying out to Italy to meet up with Andrew who is working. It was surprising to see Grace grown up as she was only a year old when we saw her last year on holiday and she is lovely, very chatty, very friendly, very social - she and also Olivia were incredibly lovely girls.

Alison was so very relieved that Natasha and I were taking her out for the day because I think she was going a bit stir crazy around Bill and June who are of course very lovely but getting a little forgetful and I’ll say a little deaf, sadly, that’s what always happens with old age.

So we drove out to Millet's farm which they have been to before but it worked out perfectly when we were in the play ground and also with the animals, Grace was very active climbing trees, climbing the frames, running around - it was lovely to see and it reminded Natasha and I of what Jack was like. She is pretty fearless!

It felt strange walking around the playground looking after a one and two year old, when we obviously have 22-year-old children, I said to Natasha that I felt a bit like a granddad. We stayed at Millet's for about two hours which flew by and then we made our way home and took Alison and the girls out to Jacobs Inn for dinner.

The food was good and we had a nice time and Jack joined us for dinner which was amusing because he had worked at Jacobs Inn for over a year which meant he knew the staff and the menu. I managed to only have a gin and tonic again and we then took them back to Cowley to drop them off at Bill and June's, however, when we got there we went in for about an hour because Steve and Sue were there as well so we stopped for a chat and a catch up.

That was that, we said our goodbyes and Alison later texted to say how much she enjoyed coming out and we went home watch some TV and then had an early night because of school and work next week.