Today we're off to Swindon to visit Nick and Lucy and their new baby, Mollie - who will forever have the awesome accolade of having been born on the 10th October 2010 (10/10/10). We head straight to Paddington station where I renew my Young Persons railcard for the last time, seeing as I'll be 26 by the time this one expires. K and Mike, our travelling companion today, laugh at me for being young. Yeah, young and with 33% off the price of his ticket. For now.
There's a rail replacement bus service from Reading to Swindon, so to spare us the indignity of crawling down the M4 and stopping at Didcot (and adding an hour and a half to our journey) Nick has kindly offered to pick us up in Reading. This means our journey is only half an hour and we're meeting Nick well before lunch. We drive back to Swindon in Nick's swish company BMW, stopping at the biggest Asda in the world to pick up food and drink for later tonight. It's started to snow - the first us London folk have seen of the "Big Freeze" currently terrorising the rest of Britain - and by the time we get to Nick and Lucy's house we're glad of the cosy, new-baby ambience.
We say hello to Mollie and all have a little hold while Lucy sorts out some delicious hot dogs for lunch. We get a tour of their very nice house too - but after being so grown up it becomes clear that we must venture to the pub. This is to be Mollie's first pub trip and her behaviour is exemplary while we all enjoy a nice couple of pints as the snow falls outside. It's dark by the time we cautiously head back through the ice and when we're home we safely secure ourselves in the comfy living room with beer and wine.
Mollie falls asleep quickly and we sit watching Get Him to the Greek on TV - a film K and I had enjoyed on the train up to Edinburgh back in September and it's even funnier the second time around (and after a few beers, obviously). Feeling festive now, before bed we stick on Elf - which seems a strange and incongrouous thing for four adults to do on a Saturday night - but why not?
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