40th Birthday Celebration Weekend

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Thankfully we were able to escape for just one night (had planned for two but events overtook us) to Center Parcs with the Drewett’s and the Box’s to celebrate the three 40th birthdays of the summer season 🙂

On Friday the boys all went out and played Golf in the beautiful sunshine near Worksop – the first time any of us had played in over 7 years (over 10 for Simon)… It was a simply fantastic late morning and afternoon, following which Simon returned to Ossett and Lee and Ed head on to Center Parcs for the next stage of the celebrations.  The girls all had a quiet morning and early afternoon soaking up the goodness that is Meadowhall before Vicky returned to Ossett and Caroline and Sharon headed to Center Parcs.

On Saturday morning, Vicky and SImon were able to join all at Center Parcs where the boys went out for some fun on the mountain bikes around Sherwood Pines and the girls enjoyed a lovely session in the SPA 🙂

The boys then nipped to the pub for a bite to eat and a well deserved cold beer or three.  The food took over 50 minutes to arrive so the country club refunded us our meal cost AND supplied us with a free drink each – on the house – FOR THE WIN – GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE.

We enjoyed a lovely meal together on Saturday night and whiled away a few hours back at the villa recognising old TV show theme tunes – the sort of randomness that just happens sometimes 🙂

Great times with great friends celebrating a big year for three of us – thanks all for arranging and cheers 🙂

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The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives

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B, your big day is finally here and we are all patiently waiting to meet your little princess.

While you won’t read this until we have finally met her, relax, take those deep breaths and make sure that Granny Reilly is working hard to keep the pair of you in great shape today 🙂

We look forward to welcoming and toasting Lily into all of our lives very soon and of course we all look forward to being part of the rest of your lives 🙂

Love and kisses,
AV, Uncle Simon, Elliot and Oliver xx

Silcoates Years 1 and 2 Swimming Gala

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This morning was the Years 1 and 2 Swimming Gala at Silcoates, with the fun starting at around 10:45.

All the children got to swim once on their back and once on their front before all being involved in a whole year relay race.

Elliot did really well this year with a second place in his backstroke AND another second place in his breaststroke race – GREAT work Elliot.

Elliot also performed well in the relay race as he had to make some time up from the little girl who went before him – he managed to pull it back by nearly 1/4 length and then Jessica D came through at the end to help cement 2nd place for the team.  A great result considering that they were almost 1/2 length behind after the third swimmer 🙂

On a separate note, Euan and Jessica were paired against each other in a couple of races and while Euan took the backstroke (by about a body length, he did not fair so well in the breaststroke where she took him by about the same distance.  He might not have lost out had he not slowed at nearly full length to make sure that he was ahead – that slow down cost him the race 🙁

The overall standard of swimming since last year is really incredible – the school are doing a great job with the kids and their swimming 🙂

Barbara and Julie serviced

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Simon collected the bikes from the Bike Medic (Richard) in Horbury this afternoon. Total cost was £100 including two new gear cables and four new brake pads on Barbara – pretty good considering they look and feel fantastic 🙂

Simon can’t wait to get out and test ride 🙂 not a big wait as we are going to Sherwood Pines next weekend 🙂