Sunny Weekend

Craven Wanderer

So, it is the holidays - yahooooooo!

Saturday it dawned lovely and sunny, hot sunny!  Tom had a football tournament in Grassington, and he and Matt gave Caitlin and Rich a lift so I was left at home.  I had to wait in for a parcel though - as Tom was expecting his roller skates to arrive (bought with an Amazon voucher from his birthday, £5 from us instead of an Easter egg and pocket money) and we had already missed it once this week.  It was a pain as it was so lovely outside, but he would have been distraught to miss out again - especially as we weren't going to be in on Monday which would have meant they would have been sent back to the sender!  Anyway, they arrived around 11am, so I took the advantage of some free time to go for a run.  I have got slower since all the illnesses, but am working on getting back my speed - the heat today didn't help though.

First go at rollerskating

Tom and Matt arrived home and Tom was delighted with his roller skates, he put them straight on and was quite surprised that he couldn't skate naturally.  Anyway, he had a go in the garden and managed to stumble from one side to the other, and only fell over a couple of times, with no crying!




As it was such a lovely and sunny day, we decided we should go for a walk.  Matt suggested Kingsdale, a dale that is so close to home, but which we don't really know at all.  Matt looked up a walk and we headed out.  OMG - can't believe we haven't been there before!  It was a gorgeous walk, right in the heart of the Dales, only 5 minutes drive away.  We found the cheese press stones which are famous and saw some really lovely scenery and all pretty much to ourselves in the heat of the sun.  What could be better?  We really wanted to have a barbecue to finish off the day but we had already booked a table at La Tavernetta which re-opened that day to new owners, but using the same pizza dough.  Unfortunately the pizza menu had completely changed, meaning no more wonderful Italian sausage, but the dough was good and the service very nice, we will be back.

Ingleborough and the Cheese Press Stones

Sunday morning we headed over to Meadow Falls to see Annabel and Owen who were going to help Tom with his roller skating.  Liz emptied their family room which has a nice level and smooth concrete floor.  Annabel and Owen and Liz were brilliant helping Tom, and before too long, he was trying to skate without clinging on to me.  A certain improvement.

The boys conquer Kingsdale

We said our goodbyes at lunchtime and headed over to Bernie's for lunch.

In the afternoon we headed over to Settle to drop Tom off as he was staying with his Grannie and Grandpa for two nights, while we headed off to Leeds for 24 hours of eating and drinking.