My beautiful girlie in Fortnum and Mason with a lemonade float 

Yummy sorbet and chocolate sauce

 We had a wonderful day yesterday - a day full of forever memories. Lovely train journey up to London on a nearly empty train. Lunch in The Parlour at Fortnum and Masons. So yummy! Followed by some window shopping! Beautiful beautiful things - with rather large price tags! Some market shopping and then the theatre to see Les Mis. We had wonderful seats courtesy of airmiles! Second row from the front - it felt like we were in the show! I had seen it before but had forgotten lots of it. It was wonderful - although so very sad. Lots of tears! Fantastic singing - very powerful voices. The journey home was very different from our outward journey - the train was packed and very hot. I had to stand for a while which with swollen legs and feet was quite uncomfortable. It is hard as there are disabled seats but I don't look disabled and can't really ask people to give up their seats. Thankfully a seat became free quite quickly. It was wonderful to spend the day with Chloe. I am very proud of my beautiful daughter and all she has achieved. She works so hard but is always a delight. She coped so well with her project and all its ups and downs. Her professor has asked her to continue with the project next year and to maybe publish it.

Our wonderful news is that Josh has a new job in London. It has been a very stressful few weeks for him as he tried to go to interviews and then decide which job to take. He was in the lucky position of having 2 jobs to choose from. He will begin in the middle of June. He will commute to London from Brighton to begin with and then he and Debs will move to London. I feel quite sad that they will be leaving Brighton as it has been a wonderful place for them to live and begin married life. But it will be lovely to have them so much nearer and hopefully we will be able to see more of them.

A quieter day today to recover!