Ale Trail in the sunshine

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Yesterday daddy set out with the boys early to head out on the Ale Trail once again. A bacon butty in Leeds was the strategy in order to have a hot pie and peas in Stalybridge – only when we arrived there was no hot food on – Strategy Failure 🙁

  
However the sun was glorious so we managed a couple of pints – as we sat back enjoying the beer and conversation Stalybridge went from being very quiet to super busy as all the other ale trailers rocked up.

Lee came up with the wisdom of the day – missing out Greenfield (as there I no beer garden of consequence) so that we could head straight to Marsden and stay in the sun and crucially ahead of the queue of trailers 🙂

We enjoyed a light lunch at the RiverHead Tap pub again, in the sunshine and following three pints there we head on to Slaithwaite where once again we sat out in the sunshine, enjoyed two pints and a warm pork pie – a GOOD pork pie at that 🙂

Then on to Huddersfield where there was a huge beer festival going on right outside the railway station so we didn’t bother heading into the pub – just a cheeky couple of ales in the Huddersfield sunshine 🙂 oh, and a nice ice-cream 🙂

Then it was back on the train for Mirfield (our final train journey) and a short walk over to the Flower Pot – that’s right another couple (well for daddy one was a coke) of beverages in the sunshine.

We grabbed a taxi up to Grangemoor and Grameen for a curry where we bumped into Grandma and Granddad who were out for a meal also.

The great news was that meant a lift home afterwards 🙂 Winner.

A fantastic day with sunburn to prove it and incredibly no headache this morning 🙂

Terrific weekend – now back to it for 3 weeks

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We have sadly come out of the other side of a terrific weekend – Saturday was a day of BBQ over at Rob and April’s and despite the rain (there was LOTS of it), it was a truly fantastic day – Rob made some pulled pork that was literally the best pulled pork we have ever experienced – just WOW. Wine and laughter accompanied good friends and the kids just played and played all day, with the finale being some fireworks that Tracey had found  in their garage.

Then yesterday, we went over to grandma and granddad’s for another BBQ and again the food was great, the conversation great but to really top it the sun came out, and came out for real – it was a scorcher, so being sat in the BBQ pit area was simply delightful – hot sun mixed with little clouds and no wind made for perfect conditions. IT did mean that we were all dreaming of our holidays which are only three weeks away, but it still feels like an eternity away….

All of this following daddy’s results from his over 40’s medical check up – all OK except cholesterol levels which are sadly rather high 🙁 Presently the level is 5.9 and really needs to be under 5.1 apparently. Also, when this was checked back in 2009, the level was 4.5 so something is not going in the right direction 🙁 On the plus side, his chance of heart attack etc is only 3.03% in the next 10 years so that is a positive – now just to sort the diet to lose the extra weight that has appeared in the last 2 months and work on reducing the cholesterol… Typical, with a holiday coming up…

Toilet pans and sinks

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have been the main source of irritation in our household this weekend as for some reason neither of them wanted to seal properly 🙁

Poor Uncle Tim has torn his hair out over them both – so our progress while forward moving has not been quite as we might have liked – that said, having no leaks is ever so slightly more important than finishing the job on time 🙂

We now have the tiles that we need to sort the shower area, the shower itself is fully operational and the area has been marked up for tile location. We have even cut out the tile that will house the shower controls in the middle.

We still need to collect some additional tiles for the splash back behind the sink etc and arrange for a plasterer to come and sort our holes etc. We might consider asking the same person to do the actual tiling as time is now well and truly against us all sadly.

We will get there eventually…

Boys away for the weekend

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The boys have not long since left with Grandma, Tyler and Alicia for a last minute east coast weekend away. They were super charged up and didn’t give a second thought for leaving the house – they were in the car and seat belted in before daddy could even put his shoes on to begin putting their stuff in the back of the car….

Sadly, we have a whole weekend of DIY in trying to get the en-suite closer to completion so we can’t even maximise the opportunity by going away ourselves 🙁

The en-suite is well underway however and the new parts have all arrived so hopefully we can get all the wet jobs finished on Saturday and perhaps begin the prep work for tiling. However we do still need to wait for a plasterer to come and help us – a job that we have not even found a plasterer yet – hopefully this won’t keep the job waiting too many additional weeks.