Today we went to Diggerland in Castleford since Elliot loves tractors so much, we thought it a good idea to let him ride on and maybe even drive some 🙂

The weather was really nice, Elliot a little cheesed off (his last few teeth are making their way out presently – makes for nice tantrums, hands in mouth and strong smelling tikka masala sauce down below 🙁 ) and the entry price a paltry (!!!) £30 – wow – 15 UKP each for Vicky and Simon and Elliot got in for free since he was under 3.

We soon found out why he got in free – there was actually very little he was able to do – it was all well set out, and if the kids are 5 or more then they will have a blast at this place.  So, we had a quick bite to eat and played in the indoor centre – £30 is a lot of cash to play in a play centre for 45 minutes !!

Oh well, been there , done that – maybe we will go back in a few years time.

So, Vicky spent some of the afternoon having a nice sleep (V got up with Elliot this AM while lazy sod Simon staying in bed until gone 9am !!), while Simon and Elliot playing in the garden on the slide etc.

There are too many people and too many gifts to list right now, but thank you to everyone from Elly – here he is considering what to play with next……

Now what will it be….. moon sand, cars, garage, jigsaws, Thomas stuff….. th list is pretty endless 🙂

2 years old already – the little guy is a little boy now and not a baby anymore 🙁  We were watching him watch the television yesterday and no longer did we see our baby – we saw a cheeky little boy who was clearly about to get up to no good 🙂

Mummy has been working tres hard baking cakes for all to enjoy later today at his party – 4pm.  Elliot’s birthday cake(s) are truly awesome this year – all individually baked and decorated cars – that’s right Elly’s favourite 🙂

We hope you all enjoy the party and that Elliot understand that he needs to let others play with his toys…..

I guess as expected, the conservatory folks showed up, didn’t actually have the details of what they were here to do, other than they had 4 windows to fit.  So, guess what, they didn’t get all completed – now there’s a surprise.  We still have a gaping hole in the section where the two parts of the roof connect – the solution today was to push in a whole load of rubber cement – hardly a solution and to make it worse, they only managed to fill 40% of the areas requiring treatment…. !!!!

The guy that turned up later tonight to drop off the keys for the windows (and we suspect to collect the final payment – yea right) wasn’t expecting to be invited in and shown the poor show that his team had delivered for us….

Yes, I know you have read this before, but it really is nearly done – a big thanks to the Thompson’s for helping out with the network cabling (well David for helping and Julie for letting him 🙂 ) this weekend – the SKY HD image is now viewable in HD in the conservatory at the same time as in the main lounge – great result.  Similarly, we can now control the SKY channel etc from the conservatory – saves getting up and changing it in the lounge – another great result. – all via structured cabling around the house 🙂

We only await the AV receiver……. then we will be done.

The conservatory people are coming tomorrow afternoon to replace the scratched windows, fix the rainfall down pipe that they disturbed and refit the roof – hopefully then we will be done and they can claim their final £500 payment and disappear.

Elliot’s birthday is now just around the corner and so we are planning a little party for him on Thursday afternoon at 4pm round at the house.