Had a nice walk with man and dog this morning checking up on Resident Adolescent to see if he was at school. This is one of the fun things we have come home to!
There is a cafe very close to the school called La Dolce Vita which is second home to crowds of school children attracted by the two futbolin tables and the relaxed attitude of the staff to such questions as school hours. It reminded me more than a little of Togs Cafe in Troon where I grew up and where we used to go when we skipped out of school. There was a jukebox and you could sit for hours drinking milky coffee and eating fried egg rolls.

Futbolin is the game known to me as table football and is a bit of a craze here. Unfortunately there are also gambling machines in La Dolce which provide further temptation. Isn’t it a shame that jukeboxes no longer exist in their original form with piles of singles and a moveable arm that reaches in and grabs the one you have chosen for 10p?