"Happy Annie Nursery"

Tom delighted to be invited to our anniversary meal

Monday was our 8th Wedding Anniversary.  We almost forgot!  So much has been going on recently that it crept up on us without us really noticing.  Neither of us had cards, and as we are now living in the middle of nowhere, we had no opportunity to quickly run out and get one - at least we are both as rubbish as each other!!!!

The day started with Tom trying out his new nursery for an hour.  He didn't do too badly, clung to me at the beginning, but warmed up after not too long and did some exploring with the staff.  He's going back in on Wednesday for an hour without me - fingers crossed he doesn't miss me.

We then had lunch at home and went to Morecambe as it was lovely weather - blue sky and no wind.  I gave Tom another biking lesson.  He did much better today - I managed to get him to pedal whilst I was holding on to the front of the bike (he won't let me push him from behind!) so definite progress - he had a ice cream to celebrate.  We then explored Happy Mount Park (another zip wire which he monopolised for a while) but then began to flag so came home.

Luckily he fell asleep in the car on the way home, so I left him there when we arrived back, then we headed out to Kirkby Lonsdale for our anniversary meal out.  We went to the Italian again.  Tom was in top form, entertaining us royally.  He sang us a number of nursery rhymes (including Peter Rabbit - which he is doing in the photograph) and was generally a happy, charming chappy.  We demolished our garlic bread, meat ball pasta and ebi & chorizo pasta in no time at all and he remained happy.  It really was a pleasure to be with him - he made our night.  Oh and his version of Happy Anniversary - Happy Annie Nursery!