Lunch with Aunty Deborah and Uncle Andrew

Alice enjoyed her first posh lunch yesterday and sat gossiping with the ladettes and mucisians of Nantwich while the rest of us tucked in. She and her Grandad explored the restaurant, lest Alice's shouts of excitement should encroach on the relaxed atmosphere of the Residence hotel (not featured in High Life magazine).


Alice received gifts in abundance and was particularly captivated by a finger puppet*

She did show interest in the menu, the cutlery, anything else within her reach on the table and my tempura prawns, but it was a bottle for her, as well as a few minutes in the posh highchair - it's obviously plastic highchairs which are not to her taste. Very green, my Alice.

Here she is with all the family (plus cousin in tummy) - as ever, she behaved impeccably (as did said cousin).

*Photos reproduced with kind assumed permission from Aunty Deborah