Had a lovely morning with Peter - trailed around a car boot fair buying only eggs and Sweet Williams then a few charity shops (high st. shops are overpriced rubbish - much better things to buy in 2nd hand shops!) where I did very well - 2 pairs of shorts, trousers, 3 pairs of sandals and a hat! Had a cream tea and called at the garden centre on the way home - I bought Peter a very "middle-aged" type early birthday present of a pair of garden chairs - wooden steamers actually! Tres Chic - it did make us both feel old; I for giving and he for receiving with equal enthusiasm! Ha ha they tell me it comes to us all.

Am looking forward to lounging in them tomorrow evening with a VERY LARGE G&T!!!

And then to work...when your In-Box gets past 350 e-mails all more important and urgent than the previous you know you're getting swamped...the little coloured flags used to mark importance appear to be uniform in colour - RED for urgent...needed it yesterday.

I'm very grateful to Aimee today who at 10pm (when I realised that I really could not afford a day away from the theatre tomorrow even if I did work past midnight tonight) agreed to attend an all day meeting 1hr 1/2 drive away on my behalf! What a relief - I know when I go these things they always result in more work for me....at least Aimee will be able to filter out the stuff I really don't need to know! Phew!

So many balls in the air at the moment - bound to drop one sooner or later!

I think Pete has tried them out the new Garden chairs this evening - I hope so - he has been working so hard recently that a "day-off" is just what he needed; makes me feel bad for working late though...that doesn't help.

Beginning to realise I'm a little whingey tonight so will sign off cheerily looking forward to more beautiful weather tomorrow! Until then x