Hot, hot, hot

This week was hot, hot, hot and busy, busy, busy - not least because I had 4 cakes on the go and because it is so hot, the fondant icing doesn't play nicely meaning that each cake took double the amount of time to make than usual.

Matt was away all week, but because of the heat, Tom wasn't going to bed until about 10pm most nights as it was oven like in the house - not a breeze to be found to cool down the air inside the house.  I therefore had no time to be lonely, in fact I felt like I was on the constant go.

We had all the usual activities and on Wednesday instead of the usual swimming lesson it was badges and this year was the biggie: 1,500m which is 90 lengths of the Casterton pool, not great if you are down on sleep and slightly grumpy to start with!

Jill and Tom

He did well, but he did lose it about a third of the way through when he started to cry because a girl kept bumping into him (I told him countless times to overtake her but he refused - she was in front of him but he was naturally faster than her meaning he was held up and he got the odd kick and punch from her)  Jill gave him a talking too and he recovered, but I think we probably had 4 lengths of him crying / whimpering.  As a result I lost count of the number of lengths he did - so he may actually have done 92 lengths instead of the 90 he needed to do!  After a while he got into a rhythm and he cruised it.  It was mega hot in the pool though - although Tom enjoyed splashing me each time he got to my end of the pool!

We have decided to put an end to swimming lessons now.  He obviously can swim quite well, but his will to do well isn't there.  He only swims properly if Jill shouts at him, as soon as she looks somewhere else he goes back to being lazy.  He could be good, but quite often he doesn't believe her / us when we tell him what he needs to do (e.g. breathe on his side when doing front crawl) and will continue to do his own thing regardless without even trying to do anything different.  So thanks to Jill for teaching him, he certainly won't drown.

On Thursday Tom was invited to the Co-op to receive a donation at the opening of their new store as he is a member of the Kids'

Official duties

Committee

On the Saturday Tom went off with Katie and Rebecca to the Worth Valley Railway for a gala day whilst I caught up on my cakes.  I believe he had a fantastic day - he and Rebecca can talk trains for England - it is nice they have each other to be nerdy with.

Sunday Tom had a cricket match at home against Kendal.  We got to the field to find only 3 Ingleton children had turned up and the coach was on his way to Derbyshire for his son's cricket match?!.  The Kendal club had sent a full contingent of 10 so we had to get on the phone quick smart.  I called every family I knew in Ingleton to beg and plead they came down to take part and within 40 minutes we managed to conjure up a full team.  How embarrassing though.  Somehow we managed to stay in the black and we and the kids had a good time, but it could have been very different.

As it was so hot, we decided to have a nice easy afternoon to catch up on ourselves.