Early

Since we'll be away on his actual birthday, we redesignated Saturday as present day.  So, up early, paper shredded and once he'd got his xBox set up and inserted the first disk, a six-hour wait while the game installed (and I suspect a million system updates were also downloaded and installed). No matter. He was out at the cinema and then Pizza Hut with his pals and the game was ready when he got back. They very politely took turns and celebrated each others head shots. Me and Ellen just pottered around and had a brief game of conkers.