Back to school

Tom started school again on Tuesday.  I was going to spend the week tidying, clearing and re-organising the house, but one of my best customers came by and ordered a cake for pick up on Friday, so the house didn't get the huge tidy it was scheduled.  Nevermind - it was an interesting cake to do.

Tom had his first swimming lesson in the next group up on Wednesday and didn't look out of place in it - in fact he was out in front sometimes with his speedy laps.  He was pleased with himself as were we.

Thursday we had a visit from Tom Brown Senior - he is wanting to put 25 houses in the field behind us with the access point being the side of our house.  Hummmmm.  He mentioned that they are having difficulty with the access point as it isn't very wide.  One of the solutions is to demolish this house?!!!!!!  He suggested that maybe we would like to swap this house with one on the development.  Looking at the plots on the development, there aren't any big enough to fit this house and its grounds in, PLUS he didn't have any info on what sort of house it would be?  No-one in their right mind would say yes to this would they?  Not a great evening for us.

Training Trophy Winner

We had a quiet weekend as Matt was in Cambridge and the weather was awful.  Saturday Tom went to football in the scout hut.  He did really well - in fact he won the training trophy for 3 awesome goals so that was great (problem was he got bashed on the nose right at the end of training, meaning he was crying as he got the trophy - didn't quite get to enjoy the moment!).  We came home, had lunch, then I had a wedding cake consultation, so Tom watched telly whilst I talked cake with a bride and groom.  By the time they had left it was getting on for 3pm.  We had a think of what to do - we needed to get some food in for dinner, so decided to head to Booths in Settle and tell Grannie and Grandpa so we could meet up in a cafe for tea and a bun.  We did exactly that - Tom gave them his thank you card and showed them his trophy etc.  A hyper and fun 45 mins.   We said our goodbyes and then did a quick once round the town before shopping at Booths and then heading home.

Sunday was an awful day, weatherwise also Matt called from London stating that he thought we had miscalculated the due date for objections to the housing development.  We thought we had until next Saturday, but actually it was Monday, so we did a mad scramble to write a letter of objection.  Poor Tom ended up watching a bit of telly whilst I got something together.  Within a couple of hours we had a 4 page letter with references to government policy, Conservation Areas along with all the other usual objections - felt quite pleased with ourselves - espeically as we were working independently from each other, the internet and wifi are wonderful things when they work properly.

Tom and I went to Inglesport for lunch between hail storms - just to get out of the house and then headed to Lancaster to pick Matt up.  Then a pub tea on the way home.