We had a quiet day at Yvonne's on Thursday. In the morning we negotiated our way up to the North Finchley shops where we bought some groceries from a Waitrose supermarket (not very exciting and very expensive), and then organised a "dongle" which sounds a bit suspect, but is a USB connection thing which gives you broadband access throughout the UK. Hence the current connection. We will still use McDonalds too because Hilary has become addicted to the monopoly game where you get stickers on some products to stick onto a monopoly board with the hope of winning prizes. She has won lots of instant prizes (by going up to likely looking people and asking if she can have their stickers), so hot chips, McFlurries, apple pies and coffees are often on her! She is hoping for the Mayfair sticker which will win her 500,000 pounds, I've told her not to hold her breath but she seems determined. She obviously has that gambling streak which pops up in the family every now and then. We also got a sim card for Di's phone so she is now connected which is good because we have been either not contacting people,or else using public phones, which hasn't been satisfactory.
In the afternoon we all went for a walk in the woods, from here. We saw robins, huge magpies, and squirrels all playing in the trees. The woods are really pretty with red and white hawthorn flowering, bluebells and wild garlic covering the ground, and all the different soft greens of the English trees.
A selection of "woods" shots
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