More Celebrations

We didn't wake too early this morning. We had a very usual Saturday morning ritual - Sara and Mary went off into Salisbury for ballet and shoppig, and Tom and I stayed at home - Tom to play on his Xbox and me to write out some more Christmas cards. Tom and I set off for Southampton at 12.30 p.m. arriving in really good time to park the car at 1.20 p.m. I was really surprised that the traffic hadn't been a good deal heavier with Christmas shoppers. This afternoon we were playing Tranmere Rovers and after a very lack-lustre first half, Saints cmae out and played much better in the second half. A superb and unexpected goal from Dan Harding started things off (I had been tempted to have a bet on Harding to score first at 100/1 but was persuaded by Tom to pick Lallana - I should have gone with my first instinct) and penalty taken by Rickie Lambert was followed shortly by an excellent power shot by Lambert from a free kick 30 yards out. The final score, 3-0 to Saints, has lifted the team to 14th and only 9 points from the play-offs. Tonight Mary was having a birthday pyjama party with twelve of her friends over (two for a sleep-over). Tom and I, therefore, decided to delay our return by going and having an excellent Chinese meal at the Water Margin at North Baddesley. The food is always excellent there and tonight was no exception. It was as well that we had booked as the restaurant was absolutely packed by the time we left at 7.45 p.m. We came home to an incredibly noisy house with about nine girls still here.