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

xx

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 🙂

Following a couple of stomach issues for Pepsi – being sick just before his dinner in the evening – we think his stomach was empty and hence it caused sickness.

SO – we decided to move them both onto three meals a day instead of two – initially they both clearly thought they had WON – i.e. “ha, we are getting fed three times a day now – been telling you for 10 years to feed us more often”.  Soon it dawned on them that while they are getting fed three times, the portions are smaller – hence similar (so perhaps a little more) quantity but spread out better over the day….

They are back to not being happy again – Max seems to be forever trying it on to get fed again 🙂

They’ll get used to it.

Pepsi was at the Vet on Friday last week for a check-up and Margaret was delighted with his progress.  We agreed that he seems to have more lives than the average cat 🙂

Mummy has picked up a nasty cold towards the back end of last week, that has culminated in a nasty bug over the weekend.  Olly woke up with red cheeks etc, suggesting that he was going to have yet another episode of his usual temperature etc, so we kept him away from school.  It actually didn’t turn into anything so he could probably have been OK to have been at school today.

The rain has arrived from the South (has battered the south of the country over the last few days) and there are presently something north of 300 flood warnings on nationwide.  Sadly, once again, the flood defences in many parts of the country are again being tested t the max 🙁   We should be A.OK here in Ossett, but there is definitely flooding in many roads where the road water guttering is unable to cope with the large quantity of water that is being forced on it.  The wind thankfully isn’t TOO strong at the moment although it is definitely significantly colder at the moment than it was just 5 days ago…