Music, Brighton and Elian

The last few days prior to our departure to Brighton was spent with music, shopping and packing. On Monday I had a fantastic concert which was well worth going to in the big concert hall that looks like an upside down ship. Also on Monday we went to fetch my clubcard for the baths and visited the Record Office again. The one reallly fascinating document was my grandparents' marriage contract, which definitely makes me think that bourgeois marriage is not so much about love, but property. Also, that if the Americans think they have invented the prenuptual agreement, they are wrong. By about a hundred years!! On Tuesday I went to the baths to try out my new card, found there were quite a few things wrong with it, but enjoyed the waters all the same. I amazingly managed to find one of the bath's managers in his office to let him have my observations on some of their practices and he not only politely listened, but promised to see to my complaints. We'll see!! After making sure that both Sheila and Elian had some presents we departed on Wednesday. The trip was absolutely uneventful, which was good news.

Little Elian (see him sitting on one of his presents!)is still an absolute wonder. Ear to ear grin, cute, friendly and very, very lovable. Thursday we stayed in waiting for Ruth to bring our post. She finally arrived at about 5pm. Today we took Elian for his music group where lots of cute little children were singing, playing all sorts of instruments and just having fun. He loved it, took it all in and even participated now and again. Afterwards we all went to Rose Cottage, one of our old haunts, where you can get quality food and very good beer. He behaved perfectly, even though the pub was not particularly baby friendly and didn't even have a high chair. We babysat both last night and tonight, the first being no bother, the second a bit more. Clever little so and so knows how to force grown ups to let him stay up late!!

Tomorrow we are off to Bristol, further photographs to follow next week.