Half term - yipppeeeeeeeeee. Rain, rain, rain not so great! Half term started with a bang with a new village event: Autumn Light Festival which had been organised by one of the mums at the school. It was held at the icentre and included live music and The Post Office Bar, what's not to like. Well, the rain mainly. It didn't drizzle, it chucked it down! There was supposed to be a lantern parade around the village which the children were doing, but all the lanterns were melting in the rain, in the end they paraded into an old classroom at the icentre where judges looked at what was left of them! Oh hum, the Batala band carried on and did a performance in the pouring rain and the good folk of Ingleton all turned out in their full waterproofs to take part.
The PTA had a soft drinks and crisps stall in a marquee outside which didn't get used, we bought loads thinking it was the whole village, but no-one knew where we were and anyway everyone was crowding in the old gym to be out of the rain. The Old Post Office were there and did very very very good business.
Anyway, it was a good night, Tom was playing with his friends, the music was good, everyone was there, so it was a good social event.
Sunday - now neither of us can remember what we did on Sunday, which probably means not much. Maybe it was raining so we watched the Lion King again in readiness for London? Whatever it was, we didn't take any photos!
Monday - Tom and I were invited round Alice's for the afternoon. We spent the morning doing chores, sorting the house out etc, had lunch and then we headed over. Tom went and played with Charlie and Harry - and they did so without incident for the whole afternoon - not once did someone come up to 'tell' on someone else, no crying, no whinging, no nothing. Wow! Alice and I had a great catch up, something that is normally impossible with kids around.
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