Michael McIntyre night

Last night was our evening in Sheffield with Lee, Caroline, Ed and Sharron – we managed to get on the road just afte 5pm, so got sat down at the Coast to Coast restaurant by 6:15 for a nice burger based meal before the show.

The show started at just after 8pm with a warm up act who was a Yorkshireman – pretty funny guy – we had a 25 minute interval before Michael finally came on – he was of course awesome and had us creased with laughter for most of the session. He was on for almost 1.5 hours which sadly disappeared in no time at all.

A great evening out with good friends – need to do more stuff like this πŸ™‚

Few piccies from Sunday

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Cracking day at Sherwood Pines

Grandma cuckoo and Nard came over first thing to look after Hugo while the rest of us were to head out to Sherwood Pines with the bikes and the Drewett’s and the Box’s.

Gracie  had stayed overnight last night so she came with us as well and despite our best intentions, we still only managed to get on the road at 10:25 although isn’t was foggy – thankfully the sun came out not long before we arrive πŸ™‚

We actually made good time and pulled into Sherwood Pines at 11:30 right behind Ed and Sharon.

We all got straight out on the bikes and cycled the family route (green) which lasts about 4K or so – pretty straightforward and neither of the boys complained once – happy days.

Then back to the cars and we setup our camp in a quiet corner – the disposable BBQ’s were lit and the kids  started playing football and rugby. 

We had a lovely BBQ in the sunshine and played rounders, cricket, football, rugby as well as the kids sneaking around the skills park on their bikes.

All in all a funtastic day in the sunshine in late September with a BBQ to boot – all happy πŸ™‚

We should absolutely do this more often – great fun day in sunshine with great friends – can’t ask for more 

Ale Trail in the sunshine

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 πŸ™

  
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 πŸ™‚

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 πŸ™‚

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 πŸ™‚ oh, and a nice ice-cream πŸ™‚

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 πŸ™‚ Winner.

A fantastic day with sunburn to prove it and incredibly no headache this morning πŸ™‚

Terrific weekend – now back to it for 3 weeks

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 Β 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 πŸ™ 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 πŸ™ 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…