Weekend with Auntie Jude and Craig

We had a on and off week this week.  On Wednesday we were supposed to be hooked up to the internet, the engineer came and said it would be working at midnight.  It didn't.  Thursday Tom and I went to Fell Foot Park again, but our day was stalled when we had to come back for 2pm to take a call from BT as Matt had to go to the cafe in Ingleton with free wifi to do some work.  The call of course didn't happen!

Friday Tom and I went exploring Kirkby Lonsdale, but once again our day was aborted, this time half way through our picnic.  An engineer was supposed to come between 8 and 1 - he didn't come.  Matt waited in but once again had to go to Ingleton for wifi so we had to come back for the engineer who didn't turn up.  We didn't even get to the supermarket so didn't have any food in for dinner - oh hum - any excuse for a meal out!

Saturday Jude and Craig came on their way up to Scotland.  They got here much quicker than expected so were here in plenty time for lunch.  Tom was very excited to see them both - in minutes he had Craig building his trains!  We had pizza for lunch and then at last the BT engineer arrived. Matt stayed home whilst Tom, Jude, Craig and I went for the 3 mile walk behind our house.  This takes us about 40 to 50 mins without Tom, with him it took forever.  Unfortunately it was quite late by the time we left meaning Tom wasn't at his best.  Then he was in shorts which I realised was a mistake as he complained whenever any grass touched him.  Jude and Craig did a good job of distracting him, but he went into meltdown on the last upward bit.  I didn't give in and made him walk - I was in mean mummy mode.  By now the engineer had come and gone and we had internet - phew!  Matt was able to catch us up no problem at all!  We then did a little better on the down hill bit, much more interesting with lots of animals - especially goats (a pen of which we had walk through).  Instead of walking the full circuit home, we broke off and had drinks and crisps at The Plough.  This revitalised the lad and he did OK on the way home.  

Paddling

Then a BBQ - Tom didn't go to bed until about 8pm - very, very, very late for him!

Sunday we said goodbye to Jude and Craig and then decided to do a walk from a book we bought last week aimed at children.  We did it - but it was too difficult for Tom (lots of muddy bits, stoney bits, narrow bits, tall grassy bits) as a result we had some crying, lots of stopping.  Not great - we need to find an easy walk that he enjoys before we kill his walking enjoyment!

We came back home via Sizergh Old Barn where we had cheese scones for lunch and then put Tom to bed for a well needed 2 hour nap.  It was under protest, but it took him minutes to fall asleep and he was much happier when he woke.