Tonight the boys asked if they could play out in the garden after school, so once they got changed out of their school uniform, they popped on some wellies (is still wet and quite muddy in the garden) and went out to play.

15 or 20 minutes later when mummy nipped out to bring them in for dinner, she found that in the short time frame they had managed to create a large mess out there.  So, while she was tidying up the outdoor toys she moved some cars and a large frog jumped out at her, causing a little muted scream 🙂  Elliot was quite pleased (not because of the scaring incident) but because he had never seen a live frog before – only on the TV or toy frogs.

The boys are BOTH very tired tonight however so were both ready and in bed by 7pm.  Hopefully they will get a full 12 hours sleep and be ready to take on Wednesday in the morning.

We have run a new route for the school run in the morning by taking Oliver to Sunnyhill first and dropping him in the pre-school club and THEN heading up to Silcoates to drop Elliot off.  It means that we don’t have Oliver running amuck while we are waiting to leave Elliot and means that we can actually be back at home well before 9am.  Two days in and it is still working particularly well, so maybe this will be a permanent change to the route.

The boys spent the weekend over in Halifax at Grannie Cuckoo’s – well until Sunday morning that is as they had a birthday arty to attend in Denby Dale.

Mummy and Daddy were out on Friday night at their favourite restaurant (The Hepworth near Holmfirth) and they were not let down – the usual high quality service and food was delivered – and a pianist in the bar to boot 🙂  The good news is that we are heading back for another meal there in under a month 🙂

Then on Saturday night it was Sheffield’s Motor Point arena again, only this time with David and Julie to see John Bishop’s show.  We had a nice meal in Pizza Express before heading in – the delay in getting food to the table meant that more beer was consumed than ideally should have been – thus Simon was not feeling that cleve by the time the night was coming to a close.  A trip to McDonalds helped apparently :-s

This weekend was the end of the summer as far as the clocks are concerned, so we all enjoyed an additional hour in bed – hence it is now lighter in the mornings BUT darker in the evenings.  So, as I look out of the office window, it has been dark for the last 20 or 30 minutes now 🙁

Also, the COLD weather has really picked it up a notch over the last week or so – we are now almost at scraping windscreens in the mornings and the house definitely is feeling very cold during the nights.  The thicker duvets will more than likely be making an appearance in our rooms very soon…