When my husband came home a few hours later he found me not quite asleep in his winter-weight winceyette pyjamas, clutching a hot-water bottle and shivering under two duvets and a blanket.
Yes, and no. I went there last Saturday for their grand opening sale, but I drove around the parking lot for nearly an hour, looking for a space before I finally gave up and came home.
Now could we talk about the lecture programme at Downton? -If we must, we must, if only I wasn't haunted by those women whose jobs will be snatched from them when the boys come home.
And the one thing that I just realized that needed so much support that I'm happy to help and be supportive where I can was the reentry of people coming home and seeing the lack of support that really existed.
I remembered she always loved after - - after our games if I had ever played well she loved to come home and tell me how great I played and just how - - how much fun she had watching me.