Football, fair and inflatables

Saturday, Tom had his second football match - this time at home against Grassington.  Grassington only had 6 players, we had 20+, so it was a quick turn around on our side to make sure everyone had a go.  Tom was on first, they lost 4-0.  In fact we lost all our matches, but that apparently is normal against Grassington - all the Craven Wanderers teams lost.  The poor Grassington players must have been really tired afterwards as they played continuously for 45 minutes so all our players could have a go (Guess that means that the Grassington players get much more experience!)   Tom's team did look better - just unfortunate they didn't manage to score any goals.

Craven Wanderer in action

The afternoon was spent at the school as it was the Autumn School Fair.  It was the first one we've been able to go to, all previous ones having been on days we've had other things on.  It was a interesting affair - part jumble sale, part bric a brac sale, a raffle of average things, tombola and then some games run by the kids.  Amongst all that I had 'Guess the number of smarties on the cake'.  I was also on the door so pretty much demanded that everyone who entered entered the cake competition, it worked, not many were brave enough to snub me!

Ready to jump in...

The teachers and other PTA people were pretty miserable afterwards as footfall was way down on previous years, however, once all the pennies were counted, it was found that the takings were pretty similar to previous years.  I guess parents must be getting more middle class: fewer people, spending more.

Friends

Sunday, Tom had a pool
party at Settle pool, so we headed over early and took a whole load of stuff to the dump, did a Booth's visit and had tea and a bun.  We then went to the pool.  It was a joint party for Lucas and Sam (who used to live next door).  The pool have a big inflatable structure which they put on the water.  It was great fun - the kids were a little nervous at first, but they soon got the hang of it and had a whale of a time.

Most entertaining though was watching the parents - they were all competitive and very funny to watch.  Tom was quite cautious on the inflatable but enjoyed it.  He then decided to swim back to the start every time rather than get out of the pool and walk like everyone else.  We couldn't believe it - but he was very happy practising his swimming.  He did really well too.  We were very proud of him.

After the birthday tea, they all went out for a run about on the huge fields.  We then headed home for a proper Sunday roast dinner.