Day 182: Full speed ahead

Today we cashed-in on yesterday's efforts with furniture shopping and furnished two and a half rooms. The half was the kitchen. We bought a table and chairs - these are the only items we have actually received and (this evening while Exile #2 is out at homegroup) put together. We have also bought sofas and a bedroom suite which will be arriving gradually over the next few weeks.

Apparently Exile #4 fell asleep during story-time at camp this afternoon. She also had a nap in the car after tea when we went to collect the kitchen furniture. Still, by 6.30 pm she was literally falling down tired and Exile #3 was rapidly flagging. They both went out like a/with the light.

The picture is of Exile #3's first cycle ride around the new neighbourhood. Just after this we had a small-world moment when we met a lady who has a daughter at Cambridge University and whose husband is from Doncaster - she herself has triple nationality - Thai, English and US. She has a remarkable accent of her own as you might expect, but when she says "Yorkshire" and "Doncaster" she says them (as she has always heard them from her husband and his family presumably) with a wonderful Yorkshire accent.