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Santa Express Day
Yay – it’s that time of the year when we head over to Oxenhope for lunch at the Dog and Gun and then onward to the Santa Express on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway 🙂
We certainly over ate at the Dog and Gun again this year but still had plenty of time to have a walk around the engine sheds and the whole way down the platform at Oxenhope. It was Lily’s first year this year and she managed to sleep for most of the train ride until the big guy showed up 🙂
The boys had a great time as usual although Olly is still tired from his trip to Centre Parcs 🙂
We have a day tomorrow to catchup with sleep and relax etc and then the Christmas visits and what have you begin 🙂 We have a super busy schedule this year with a few day trips out to see old friends around the North of England – between Christmas and New Year.
Olly’s first sleepover
and it is at Center Parcs 🙂
Win for Olly 🙂
He has been swimming, rock climbing, lunch out and has a panto to watch tonight….
It has been v strange for the rest of us – we nipped out for lunch and the cinema (we saw “Get Santa” – very cool film) and mummy spoke to Olly on the phone this evening. Olly is keen to go swimming again in the morning 🙂
Let’s hope he sleeps OK tonight – we have had a week of poor sleeping so we are just hoping that he is simply tired out and sleeps well tonight 🙂
Tiny bit of feel good factor
Last week, the local Land Rover garage wrote to us about the charitable work that they do at Christmas time with a local (Huddersfield) Women’s refuge and a local food bank.
So, today we took a reasonably large cardboard box filled with tins and dried food that we had ordered extra of, as well as a large bag containing about 5 board games and half a dozen other toys and things that we keep in stock for birthday’s etc that come along.
We hope that they do a little to brighten the lives of a couple of families that are just not having much luck at this time, if only for a few hours. These things really make you realise just how lucky we are most of the time and how quick and easy it could be to lose just a little of that luck. We really should do more to help others and this little bit of help hopefully will just shed a little light for somebody somewhere.
We think that our boys understand what they have done today to help other little boys and girls – certainly Oliver didn’t complain when he was donating a gift that we think he really fancied for himself 🙂
Christmas Trees and Family
Today after Vicky had her hair cut etc, we head out to the Methley Christmas Tree Farm to select our number 1 Christmas Tree for ForkHall. We walked around for around 30 minutes much to the distaste of the boys (although they did enjoy budging around in the muddy tracks from the tractors) before giving in and selecting one of their pre cut trees – the ones they buy in rather than grow and cut down. It is a really good one although at £39 is significantly more expensive than the usual ones that we cut ourselves.
Anyway, here it is on the top of Emily – it is around 5 1/2 feet tall although this picture does not suggest it is more than about 4 feet…
So, the tree is sat in a stand in the conservatory having a large drink and getting used to the new home. We will keep feeding it water for a couple of days before dressing it in readiness for Christmas.
Therefore, we got the decorations out and put the new big tree (that Vicky bought in Costco a few weeks back) up in the lounge and popped the Disney decorations onto it. The lounge is transformed into a lovely Christmas scene and we just need a couple of four way power extension leads to setup Mickey’s Marching Band and the snow scenes and the room is all set.
We also need to look at getting the icicle lights sorted around the front of the house and see if we can set the automation system to drive the lights all properly.
Finally, James and aconite came round before we head out to the tree farm with your Felicity – as you would expect from having James and aconite as parents, the little mite was v content and seemed totally at peace just taking it all in – she also seemed like she could be hungry all of the time – again I think this comes from the parents 🙂 Great to see them doing so fabulously 🙂