Good, but tiring weekend

So we had a busy weekend, so much so that we were in bed at 9pm on Sunday evening, completely zonked out!

Saturday started with a swimming lesson for Tom, during which he was very well behaved again, and then off to Wellington to buy ribbons and have lunch (we both had sandwiches which were very average - note to selves - only eat chicken wings there, they are very good).

During Tom's nap we had a 'useful' session, getting those little irritating jobs done. Then we took Tom on a route march around Granville in an attempt to tire him out so that he would sleep through Rachel Z's babysitting stint. He didn't really enjoy himself, but did walk quite a distance.

7pm saw us all glammed up - me in my first long black dress (unfortunately you can't really see it in the photo - it looked better when I was standing up). Rose then took us to RAF Cosford for our Battle of Britain dinner. It was a good do. We felt very young for the night (a good thing these days), and managed to sit on a table with some nice people. Matt won a self help book for organisations?, I didn't win anything and we watched wealthy people bidding silly amounts of money for one off experience days. We had good nosh - most of my favourite food items were on the menu. At one stage we were singing "There'll be blue birds" and "Pack up your troubles" etc. I hit a wall at 11pm and couldn't stop yawning, but Matt managed to keep up the conversation until the taxi arrived to pick us up at midnight. A good evening. Thanks to Pat and Bob.

Sunday saw us in Malvern for "Vanfest" a birthday day out for me from Matt. It was a beautiful day, so the campervans were looking good. Had a good look around the stalls, bought a little fleece for Tom (he needs to grow a bit before he can wear it), had lunch, looked around the Show and Shine vans, where we both fell in love with various vans. We quickly looked around the vans for sale area, but managed to leave without buying one. (£20,000 + for a splitty, £15,000 + for a bay window, £7,000 + for a more modern one). We both have in our minds what we would like, just need to win the lottery now!

Came home, played with Tom, put him to bed, made our dinner, put ourselves to bed. We were shattered.