Wet wet wet weekend

It has rained a lot recently.  This weekend it rained more and more.  Saturday the rain was torrential.  The roads around here flooded last week, and as the ground is so saturated, it wasn't long before the roads were flooding again.

Tom had football Saturday morning - in the scout hall as the school playing fields are water logged.  We took the opportunity to go to 'Uncle Brian's', the amazing toy shop here and got him his Christmas present.  Matt then went to pick him up.  The weather was so atrocious that we drove everywhere in the village and still got drenched!  

The Greta in fine flow

We decided that as the weather was so bad we would head straight into Lancaster as we were going to see the panto in the afternoon.  We got out of the village OK, but before too long encountered some deep deep puddles.  We carried on through, but then came across a sign saying road closed, a 4x4 coming from Lancaster told us that the water on the road (this was the Hornby road) was up and over his bonnet.  His car was a lot taller than ours!  We turned round and headed towards Kirkby and the A65, once again we encountered lots of floods on the road.  It was going to be another 6 hours before we returned from Lancaster, the forecast was heavy rain, it was going to be dark as well on our return.  We decided to call it a day and return home.  Tom was beginning to get nervous - saying he wanted to go home.  It really wasn't worth getting stuck in Lancaster for the sake of three panto tickets.  We headed home and were really glad we did as the news reports came in of flooding in Kendal and Lancaster, we would have got stranded had we gone, and there was a massive power cut in Lancaster that evening.  We were very thankful common sense had kicked in and we made the right decision.

We spent the rest of the day enjoying the fact that we were safe and warm from the weather.  We had a warming chilli at Inglesport and then got ourselves a Christmas tree from the local farm - an absolute whopper - the biggest tree we have ever  had and spent the afternoon with Christmas music on decorating the tree.  Tom went round to Harrison's house for an hour or so (Harrison was supposed to go to the panto too).  We then had tea on trays in the lounge watching Dad's Army.

Sunday we decided not to move too far from the house.  Luckily Tom had the Craven Wanderers' Christmas Party to go to in the afternoon.  The morning was spent watching Match of the Day, playing with Lego and watching cookery programmes.  We went to The Wheatsheaf for lunch, returned home, did some more chores and then headed to The Bottom Club for the Christmas Party.  Wow - they are brave having that many children for 3 hours.  It was very noisy and very loud but everyone enjoyed it.  Tom was immediately off with his friends and joined in with all the activities: dancing. magician etc and  Father Christmas arrived with presents for all the children.  A good time was had by all (although Matt left early - something to do with a hangover and sore throat).  A good bash and free - fantastic value.

Tom happily went to bed early whilst we ate stew and watched telly for the evening.