Clumber Park Trip

A couple of hours with a picnic and scooters in Clumber Park seemed like such a great idea. It would get us all out of the house and in the open air without finding ourselves to be close to too many others – infection risk for Olly πŸ™

The weather was really nice and warm and all was going well until Olly realised that he was pretty tired. Only he didn’t realise – he just began kicking off and shouting and screaming. The best part of an hour later and we decided enough was enough and head home – not even 5 minutes into the journey and our little mouse was fast asleep πŸ™‚

His attitude has been significantly better since his sleep πŸ™‚

We also had a little outing to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Bretton – this ended in a similar state – Olly had enough then and was tired then also… 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™‚