Weekend with Michael

We had a mixture of weather last weekend.  Saturday it was lovely and sunny and Sunday it was really really horrible, low cloud and drizzly rain - yuck.  

Spot the viaduct!   

Michael came up on Friday night for the weekend.  Saturday saw him and Matt doing a walk along Barbondale, whilst Tom and I had a quiet day in Ingleton and playing cricket in Kirkby Lonsdale.  We then met the walkers in the pub in Barbon and returned home.  We then went for a quick drink in the Wheatsheaf before dinner. 

Barbon Church

Sunday we hung around the village - ie had coffee in Neptis, made homemade pizzas for lunch and then headed to Thornton in Lonsdale for the PTA 5km fun run that Matt had entered.  He entered it to make sure that he trained and worked hard to get into a position of fitness, but he had sort of regretted it as he re-discovered how much he hates running!  Before the run he got very very nervous, neither Michael or me dared speak to him.

However, he lined up and ran off.  The route went past the church (our waiting place) twice, he did really well, he was in 8th place the first time we saw him and then came home in 10th place.  (Michael, Tom and I counted him in as 10th, but the school counted him in as 8th???!)  Anyway he did really well and he was rightly very chuffed with himself.

We then took Michael back to Oxenholme for his train home.  Although we had Michael with us the whole weekend, we didn't seem to take any photos of him - shame really, especially as Michael and Tom get on so well.  Must try harder next time...