We went to Tenpin at Plymouth for bowling this evening, encouraged by Jerry’s gift of three bowling vouchers (from cereal packets) that allowed three juniors to go in free. We all played on one lane so it took an hour to finish our game. Young George charmed his way into everyone’s affections and got lots of encouragement from birthday boy Ash.

Some members of the Freeman household came to watch as they were in the area. When we had finished, the youngsters notices that the local Britain’s Got Talent celebrity Michael Collins was outside giving autographs, so we had to wait until Jerry and Zac had finished chatting with him before we could finally get away. The delays meant we had to skip Tesco tonight and head straight home, but there was still time for everyone to come in for a slice of Ash’s chocolate birthday cake – including John when he came to collect the boys.