Awesome swim session this morning

At the Ossett Academy for the Splish Splash swimming lessons this morning. Oliver managed to swim on his back WITHOUT armbands πŸ™‚ WOW. Then he proved that he can JUST read water without them too :-). AWESOME progress.

Elliot was really flying today to the point that the teacher (Nicola) has asked us to call the office and see if we can get Elliot transferred over (or up) to Richards lesson from next week onwards. He is ready for the next stage and Richard’s class (runs at the same time thankfully) will make a big difference for him going forwards πŸ™‚

What a fantastic start to a sunny but cold Sunday morning πŸ™‚

Choo choo – look out, conductor Olly is on the prowl

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Olly now a train guard of all of daddy’s old trains as well as Thomas, Toby and Percy – thankfully 90% of them still work – and the 10% that don’t simply need a Zero One chip removing – the 40 year old first version of today’s Hornby digital railway system :-). Still have it so you never know, it might just be worth a few quid πŸ™‚

A visit to Smyths Toy Superstore

We finally made the trip to the new toy shop in Leeds, Smyths. We promised Olly could go once he was better and able to venture out following the op, so we made sure that we got there for opening time first thing this morning to reduce the chances of subjecting Olly to lots of other people.

The store is really impressively stocked, well laid out and overall a delight to wander around. They seem to have so much more choice than Toys R Us and some rally good items in their 2 for Β£15 deals.

The boys really enjoyed their visit and came away very happy with their respective purchases.

Now, sadly we return to the house to put ourselves back under arrest…..

Cheeky XR2 detail

This afternoon daddy has helped Cousin James detail his XR2 prior to it being used in a television programme by the BBC. They have approached him to use his car in the opening sequence :-). Cool.

Anyway, we spent about 6 hours on the car and have stripped the protection is already had right back, removed the swirl marks, protected the paintwork and then layer down three laters of wax.

The car looked great when it arrived just after lunch but loped simply incredible once we had finished. James seemed to really enjoy learning his new skills and daddy clearly enjoyed the work πŸ™‚