Wow – it’s cold…

Simon is en-route to London today and has figured out it is COLD !!!

The weather has definitely turned for the autumn it seems. the central heating is now on full force in Fork Hall, and standing on the station platform, the icy breeze is making light work of the rain coat Simon is wearing 🙁

The rain yesterday was pretty torrential and has once again fully tested all of the drainpipes and gutters in the streets of the Yorkshire (and further afield) properly. Apparently one months rainfall in just 24 hours. Hopefully there will not be too much more over the coming days.

Hoping for sunshine in the big smoke 🙂

Poor Olly….

….. is being exceptionally painful at the moment. It seems like the last couple of weeks he has simply ignore every single one of our requests and appears unwilling to behave himself at all.

We are unsure as to whether he is just plain starving when he gets back from school and that it the main cause of the issues, or perhaps if he is just revolting due to not wanting to be at school.

The poor little monkey also seems to be suffering from explosive diahorrea during the week as well :-(. We have tried excluding diary products from his diet to no avail, so are left wounding if he is suffering some form of anxiety about being at school – perhaps this is also causing the behavioural issues also….

Second week of school already passed…

Incredibly we are now two full weeks into the Autumn term and the boys are well settled in. Oliver went fro his first swimming lesson at the big school with mummy yesterday afternoon. Apparently he had a fab time and was definitely a little tired when he got home.

Mummy has been making some really cool cupcake icing toppers (can’t say anymore just yet as it will spoil the surprise) for Elliot’s birthday cupcakes for his school friends. Oliver stayed home with Daddy and Uncle Tim while Mummy went to collect Elliot from school – he snook a couple of the decorations without anyone noticing – until that is when Mummy came home 🙁

Elliot has his first swimming lesson at school on Monday and given how many of the children in Oliver’s class that could swim, we are wondering if we need to get the boys some extra swimming lessons in order that they catch up with their classmates.

We have a birthday party for a couple of Elliot’s classmates tomorrow, with Elliot’s next Saturday and then another of his classmates a couple of weeks later, the birthday party season appears to be well and truly open 🙂

Tina has passed her MoT

Thankfully she is all clear and is now ready for her number plate to get removed, prior to selling.  In fairness there would be no good reason for her to have failed the test – she was only serviced last week and has only covered 2,300 miles since her last MoT 12 months ago.  Almost 1,000 of those miles was before we bought her.

While Simon will miss her, it will not be for want of putting miles on her, so it is probably a blessing to let her go.  One day when we are wealthy, we will consider buying one again 🙂

Bobby is down at the test centre – her test is in the morning 🙂