Michael McIntyre night

Last night was our evening in Sheffield with Lee, Caroline, Ed and Sharron – we managed to get on the road just afte 5pm, so got sat down at the Coast to Coast restaurant by 6:15 for a nice burger based meal before the show.

The show started at just after 8pm with a warm up act who was a Yorkshireman – pretty funny guy – we had a 25 minute interval before Michael finally came on – he was of course awesome and had us creased with laughter for most of the session. He was on for almost 1.5 hours which sadly disappeared in no time at all.

A great evening out with good friends – need to do more stuff like this 🙂

Hugo’s First Proper Walk

After ordering the en-suite flooring from Brocksons in Ossett, we all head down to Pets at Home in Wakefield to buy Hugo his first lead and a harness for walking.

We then head over to Pugneys Country Park to walk alongside the lake – Hugo was not entirely sure of being walked as he is used to snuffling around the garden at his own pace rather than being pulled in a direction that he was not ready or prepared to go – the harness also annoyed him a little at first although it is WAY better than a choker type or using his standard collar for lead walking.

Once he was used to it however, we got on and had a lovely, if brief walk for 40 minutes or so and we actually decided to let him off the lead to see how he got on. He walked alongside us and behind us as he was more interested in sniffing the grass than taking a walk in honesty, but we all got along great and it can be chalked up as a successful first walk. 

Tomorrow, we will try to get to a different park with him and let him off the lead again – all part of our trying hard to enable Hugo to successfully walk off the lead and hence to not want to run away at first chance..

Few piccies from Sunday

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Cracking day at Sherwood Pines

Grandma cuckoo and Nard came over first thing to look after Hugo while the rest of us were to head out to Sherwood Pines with the bikes and the Drewett’s and the Box’s.

Gracie  had stayed overnight last night so she came with us as well and despite our best intentions, we still only managed to get on the road at 10:25 although isn’t was foggy – thankfully the sun came out not long before we arrive 🙂

We actually made good time and pulled into Sherwood Pines at 11:30 right behind Ed and Sharon.

We all got straight out on the bikes and cycled the family route (green) which lasts about 4K or so – pretty straightforward and neither of the boys complained once – happy days.

Then back to the cars and we setup our camp in a quiet corner – the disposable BBQ’s were lit and the kids  started playing football and rugby. 

We had a lovely BBQ in the sunshine and played rounders, cricket, football, rugby as well as the kids sneaking around the skills park on their bikes.

All in all a funtastic day in the sunshine in late September with a BBQ to boot – all happy 🙂

We should absolutely do this more often – great fun day in sunshine with great friends – can’t ask for more