Wow, the temperature has really dropped off this last few days – the heating has been on at ForkHall now and may well be coming on more permanently….

Today it was bright blue skies as we got out of the car at the school car park and before we were even half way up to school, the rain started coming down :-(. Then blue sky again as we got up to the junior school.

Simon is over in Manchester this morning and it is the same over there – dark rain clouds, then bright blue sky before returning to the dark rain clouds once again 🙁

This is clearly the sign of the autumn – there are loads of leaves that have dropped from the trees as well.

Guess the fantastic summer had to end at some point – we have definitely been lucky this year – let’s hope next year is as good….

Tonight was Elliot’s first Martial Arts raining class with the big boys and girls and the funny thing is that he fits right in – he is about average height 🙂

This class is for 6 to 12 year olds and tonight there were 22 kids in there with 6 or so girls in the mix – and they were all very very good 🙂

The class lasts for 45 minutes (opposed to 30 for the little dragons) and the last 5 minutes tonight was a game of dodgeball – kids vs. teachers.

Daddy was really impressed with the way in which they train at this level – split up into five stages and all the kids into five groups – 5 or so minutes per stage.

Elliot seemed to enjoy himself and came out laughing etc.

now we just had to figure out which days he will go along – I.e. can go Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday at 6pm and / or Saturday morning at 10am. Choices, choices…..