On Wednesdays he goes shopping...*

Friday was sunny but cold and we had a lot of cold hands needing to be warmed by hot drinks. Among the first were a couple of mums and their children.

Who were all boys.

The girls, they told me, had just been dropped at a "pony pamper day". Which obviously prompted a few questions.

Apparently the girls would first ride the ponies and then pamper them - would brush them and put clips in their hair. Then they'd paint their nails. The nails of the ponies that is. 

Who knew?

Towards the end of the afternoon a man ordered a cream tea. 

The lady with him said to me , "Make that two," and then to him "and I'm paying". 

"That's nice," he said, "but why?" 

"Well you chopped that tree down for me," she answered, "and then made that gorgeous curry."

A friend indeed. 

*...and has buttered scones for tea.