Wow – we woke up to MEGA ice on the roads etc this morning 🙁

Poor Elliot ended up falling on his backside not more than 6 feet from the garage door 🙁

The cul-de-sac and surrounding roads were ice skating rinks – as in too dangerous to walk on AT ALL.  Bruce performed a faultless 30 feet powerslide at the bottom of the cul-de-sac as we head up Constable Drive 🙂

By lunchtime, we have got rain and 5 Celcius and so the majority of the ice has now gone 🙂

Elliot has come home as the winner of the Year 1 Presentation award for excellent work tonight.  Proud parent doesn’t quite cut how we feel right now 🙂

Well Done Elliot

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Sadly, it is dark and cold…. 🙁

Seems that it will be dark when the kids finish school soon 🙁  That said, in 19 days we will be generally be getting lighter and lighter as we head away from the shortest daylight day 🙂

Oh well, only 6 more school days for our boys for 2012 from tomorrow 🙂

We have had a plan to go out for lunch and then on to Stockeld Park in Wetherby with the Drewetts for a couple of weeks now.

We had a lovely lunch at the Fox and Hounds pub in Walton, near Wetherby – it was a wonderful meal with a fabulous Apple and Pear Crumble to end 🙂

Then we head over to Stockeld Park, only to be told (as we drove in) that they have experienced a burst water pipe and that the park was closing 🙁  It was planned by Vicky to get there to have time for a leisurely walk around the enchanted forest and to then see all the lights come on as dusk kicked in, so as a result time was not on our side for much else 🙁

Lee suggested heading over to the designer outlet village in York as they have a little amusement park set up for Christmas.  It was really nice when we got there (OK so a little cold) but the kids all got to go on the helterskelter and the other roundabout type of rides as well as having a go at knocking skittles down type stalls and hook a duck etc.

A great save from what could have been a disastrous afternoon – guess we will hold the Stockeld Park visit for another day 🙂