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Great afternoon avec les Drewetts :-)

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We had a leisurely morning starting with swimming lessons this morning at the Ossett Academy pool. Then up to the Hare and Hound pub for a Sunday lunch with the Drewett family. A lovely lunch was had by all although we are glad we made it before 12:30 – got super busy in what seemed like no time :-). Finally we drove over to the Bretton / Yorkshire Sculpture park and all went for a lovely walk around the top section of the park. The last time we went to the park we came away unimpressed – largely (it now seems) because we went to the Erin part of it 🙁 Today we experienced a whole different park that we all thoroughly enjoyed, with a renewed like for the place . Therefore we will probably go bak for a similar wander again sometime – today it was cold but bright which made for a great combination 🙂

Back to school and work in the morning although it is a shorter week tho week in terms of Daddy being away – he comes back on Wednesday night this week 🙂

Rainwater collection recording back online…

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Simon noticed that the ForkHall weather station was not recording rainfall and has not done so for over a month 🙁

Today, he cleaned out e rainwater catching device (spider city) and set it back up again and it seems to be working again :-). In the mean time a new collector has been ordered (£5) just in case….

Shame it was not noticed earlier as October has been a particular wet month and none of it has been captured 🙁

Daddy’s Journey to Work

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Fortunately daddy was scheduled to drive to London this morning as there has been a predicted storm for the last few days for this morning.

It transpires that the railway line at Peterborough is as far south as we can go from Yorkshire today (due to trees having fallen on the line and overhead power cables just south of there). As a result daddy would not have been getting to London today.

He was already taking the car so that was one issue averted – however once he got to Luton, the stop start traffic began. It continued that was pretty much the whole way into the office in Ealing – taking some 2.5 hours for that particular leg of the journey.

As a result it took just a smidge over 5 hours to make the drive and of course there are no chances to sleep (as there are on the train) so something tells us that daddy will be TIRED later 🙁

The traffic was so slow in fact, that daddy reports he was able to change in the car in the traffic on the M1 safely and in fact without the engine running – apparently nobody noticed his doing this but….

Olly’s Train set is coming along nicely….

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He is really pleased with it – so is Daddy 🙂

It has now increased in size and has TWO controllers so he can now control each track independently to each other 🙂

There is still more to be done (apparently) so there is going to be some track building work in the Christmas holidays – a goods yard is required for rolling stock storage :-s

Anyway, here is the current setup including his new railway platforms 🙂

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Daddy’s first week in his new job

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So far it is going well in sunny London, with reasonably long days and daddy still managing to get to talk to the boys and mummy.  Last night was funny and worthy of calling out however – daddy called to speak to the family at around 5:30 as he was joining the company fitness group at 6pm.  When mummy put the house phone onto speakerphone, Oliver said “hello daddy, this is Oliver Rust speaking…” cracked us all up 🙂  Elliot shortly after followed suit of course 🙂

The cost of being here is quickly becoming clear so Simon is going to try using the car and finding a hotel that is much further afield to see how / if that works out OK.

So, as eluded to, last night was the company fitness group, so Simon decided to join in as a good means of building relationships etc with various parts of the business – turns out there were 6 or 7 people attending and that it was not just a 5K run (as Simon had thought it would be.  It was a 1.5k jog to a gym and then a 45 minute circuit training session.  MAN it was hard work and Simon is really feeling the pull this morning 🙂  His body has not gone through circuit training for over 20 years since being at school in Bradford so this was a leap into the fire-pit in many respects.  Let’s just hope he can walk and carry his gear home tomorrow night 🙂

Looking forward to cuddling the family again – roll on Friday night: 20:40 🙂  See you soon guys, love you XXX OOO