Happy Easter Everyone

Wow, it is Easter already – 2016 is quickly slipping away…

On Good Friday we went over to Nostell Priory for an Easter Egg hunt and to take Hugo for a nice long walk. It was a beautiful day so Daddy ended up walking Hugo since he (Hugo) was not allowed in the gardens where the egg hunt was on. Accordingly they managed about 3.5 to 4 miles before calling it and the kids just about managed to do the egg hunt – accordingly the map reading was too much for Mummy and Auntie Clare…

Sadly it was a little miserable weather wise on Saturday so we are all hoping that it is nicer again today – although the forecast does not look great sadly πŸ™

We managed a walk with Hugo over at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park today and managed to get it in befor the downpour that took place just 30 or so minutes later πŸ™‚

Fingers crossed it will be OK for a walk to down to Grandmas later today…

August Holiday booked – Sandyhills :-)

This afternoon we have booked a weeks holiday in Scotland – in Sandyhills πŸ™‚

We used to go for weeks every summer in the caravan until we started with the waterskiing in 1988 so this is going to be a nostalgic trip for daddy and Granny Cuckoo (who is also coming along as a small thanks for helping us out so much since daddy started his new job).

We are staying in the alpine lodges in the Bar End holiday village – we used to occasionally nip up to Bar End for bar meals on an evening.

To say it is exciting is an understatement – daddy just hopes that the boys like it as much as we all did all those years ago πŸ™‚ when finalising the details over the phone, the lady who took the payment said that the area rally hadn’t changed much over the years so it is probably just the same πŸ™‚

Looking forward to a cheeky apple crumble on the poop deck in the Mariner in Kipford πŸ™‚ 

Ed’s Birthday weekend in Middleton on Leven

Finally, it is Ed’s turn to hit the big 4-0 so we have rented a lovely house out in North Yorks for the weekend.

The boys head out on Saturday mid-morning to a place up the coast in Seaham where we got to play in mud buggies for around an hour πŸ™‚

Initially we wer disappointed as the organisers said that we couldn’t use their standard course as it was too muddy πŸ™ however, they popped us on a longer course that we think was significantly better πŸ™‚ Take a look at how it turned out πŸ˜€

Half way through we stopped and turfed out about 5lbs of mud and ripped up grass πŸ™‚

A sensational day was had with a lovely meal cooked for us in the house by personal chef Matthew Brown – what a fantastic meal…. Will try to find more pictures soon and get them posted.

   
   

Ski Lessons

Daddy went over to Xscape tonight and endured a 3 hour ski lesson (he decided Ski rather than board in the end) to get through certifications 1 and 2 (of 5). There were 10 people in total being trained tonight in this class, but were about 4 or 5 similar sized classes on – a real money pit this ski training malarcky…. (60UKP each…)

He LOVED every minute of it and in fact has brought forward his lessons for stage 3 and 4 to Tuesday of next week (instead of Saturday night) and has also booked the final stage 5 for next Saturday night πŸ™‚

The kids and mummy SO need to get in on the action as well πŸ™‚