Hayfever weekend

Hay fever eyes

So Saturday came our way and Tom woke up with huge puffy eyes, poor thing.  Over the week Tom has been sneezing and snuffling quite a bit - there's no denying it, it is definitely hay fever and I am the one to blame!  I took him straight to the pharmacist and got some anti histamines for him.  Bless him he didn't complain, but he knew they were bad as he said: "Mummy my eyes are all wet, but I haven't been crying!"  We decided to have an easy day.  So we dropped off jumble, cakes and biscuits to the school jumble sale in the morning and then met up with Fred and Frank in the park in the morning.

In the afternoon we went to the jumble sale (quite underwhelming - not much there.  I had heard that Ingleton jumble sales are a sight to behold, but really it was quite dull).  We sat to watch the cricket on the way home, but Tom decided enough was enough and we went back inside and watched some telly to get away from all the pollen.  Not great, as it was a lovely sunny day, but what else can you do?

Sunday, Tom's eyes were back to normal (hurray) so I decided to go to Morecambe, in the hope there would be less pollen there.  We were going to go for a bike ride, but Tom's front tyre has a puncture, so instead we went on foot.  I had read on Twitter that there was a kite festival on, so we walked down the promenade searching for it.  The plan was to have lunch at the Stone Jetty, but it wasn't open?  I guess it must have permanently closed which is a real shame.  Anyway, we then discovered the kite festival by the Midland Hotel which was fab.  There were loads of very different looking kites: kites in the shape of dogs, cows, ladybirds, divers, jelly fish, rays, a huge lobster.  Basically everything you can imagine and they made a real spectacle on the beach.

Frilly kites

Ladybird land kites

Kites filling the sky

Thumbs up

Big lobster thingy

Once we had had our fill of kites, we returned to the car and headed to Hest Bank for lunch and a play on the beach.

I must say Tom was just brilliant company today, not a cross word was spoken, we both had a fab, fun and relaxed day.