It’s a Sunday, it is scheduled to be one of the last days of summer so we decided to make the most of it and go out for the day. Destination……. Yorkshire Wildlife Park.

We had never been before and quite a few people have commented on it being a good place to visit. We arrived just before lunch with beautiful blue skies and hot sunshine – 20+ degrees Celcius – wow.

Sadly, poor Olly tripped up on the short walk into the park and once he noticed (took him about 8 minutes) that he had scraped his right elbow and that it was bleeding a little, he went into a blind panic and would not stop crying for over 45minutes. It was as if he was suffering from shock in that he was shivering as well as crying etc 🙁

Once he got over it and ate his lunch, we got out there and enjoyed the park. It is a MUCH bigger place than we had anticipated and is very well laid out with lots to see and do. There are two indoor play areas, one that is really just slides for the kids and the other is like a typical indoor play area with an African jungle theme. One outdoor woodland play area that is great fun for climbing on etc too.

It was not a cheap day out (£50 for all of us) but we felt it was worth every penny once we managed Oliver into enjoying himself post fall 🙂

That’s right, the big guy is currently in Kippax, up on stilts as his wheels are finally being treated at the Wheel shop in Sandal.  Simon has finally got round to fixing his mistakes (curbed wheels) but to do so means that the wheels needed to be taken off and taken to the specialist without the car… 🙁

Hopefully we will be in receipt of 4 brand new (looking) alloy wheels that can go back on the car this time next week.  Simon has purchased some Swissvax wheel protector to apply to the new wheels to reduce the amount of gunge that will build up (brake dust) following use.  They should clean up much easier etc and be in way better condition for longer (assuming Simon doesn’t get in the drivers seat and catch curbs of course !!!)

Simon has also ordered 4 brand new centre caps for the wheels to ensure that the nearly new look is followed through across the wheels 🙂  Now all he needs to do is find a weekend where he can spend the daylight hours detailing the body work etc – then he will really look like new again – plus would be protected for the winter months of sludge and salt etc…

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….