Nigel had been hard at work trying to get the observatory up and running the way it should be. He'd given it a good dusting and scrubbing and he'd found a nicer set of seats, though the sofa was an old one he had purloined from a sitting room they no longer used. It had seen better days, but it was still pretty comfortable. The desk had been cleared off and he had a few start charts he'd purchased laid upon it.

When Enid came in, he was fitting in the last of the missing pieces for the telescope and he grinned at her greeting. "That's not how congratulatory presents are supposed to work." He had brought a bottle of wine and some nibbles to hold them over, too. "But thank you." All in all, things though still new, were going well and Nigel was not about to argue with her.