Yesterday, I surprised my wife. It is our anniversary weekend (we started to go out together may years ago) and she had wanted something special. She actually wanted a themed night much like last weekend, but instead I tried to surprise her by getting afternoon tea.
Sadly, I had left it too late to sort this out. I had postponed this on Wednesday when after working at the vaccination hub, I fell as asleep on getting home and had to sort out a flat tyre. On Thursday, I found that I had left things too late, but after searching the internet, I found an afternoon tea delivery service.
Sadly, when it came, it was not up to the standards of last weekend. It was still nice, but nothing as spectacular that my wife had arranged. My wife did get a surprise present though which she loved later in the day.
As for the children, my son appears to be content playing on the Nintendo Switch and talking to his friends. My daughter had a socially distanced walk with a friend of hers. I had met her mother working at the vaccination hub and I was told in no uncertain terms that I was not allowed to say anything to the friend due to fears of embarrassing her!
My wife and I did watch White Tiger. I have not read the book and she says that the film is a different experience to it. But as a film it was quite powerful. It deals with the issues of poverty, corruption and discrimination very well and the end is mixed, not being quite happy, not not being sad either. I do think that we need to consider getting the children to watch this, but they may not be too keen to do so. It is not the most cheerful of films and we may get more out of them by making them watch other films instead. But the appetite from the children to do so is not that keen.