Chie and Erika at Laksamania. The non-spicy child compatible options were a bit limited, and Erika was not very impressed with her noodles.

She fared slightly better with dessert though.

Yet another unsuccessful attempt to buy a fridge. Even though there is an IKEA showroom in central London, where you can order any of their fridges, they can't arrange for your old fridge to be taken away - you have to go to a proper store for that. This seemingly simple mission continues to thwart us every time.

Later on I went to the garden centre to see what I could find to cheer up the garden a bit, as it was looking a bit bleak and wintery at the moment.

These are the bulbs I chose in the end - a left two are early flowering daffodil varieties, the right one is tulips which will come a bit later.