Wednesday 3rd April we woke up to thick snow?!!! It wasn't even forecasted, took us all by surprise, was about 3 inches deep, Tom took his sledge to school for playtime. It was all gone by the afternoon - disappeared as quickly as it came.
On Friday Tom had a sleepover at Ellis' and James'. It was Matt's badminton club end of year meal. To be honest I wasn't really in the mood for it, but we had arranged a sleep over for Tom at the Perkins so I figured I should go out. I don't really know that many badminton people, but managed to chat with some. Our plan was to go to the Bottom Club afterwards as Alice was singing with her new band. We headed down to find most of the badminton club people were there, also Janine and Fiona and then Sally and Dave arrived. It turned into a really really good night. At one point Matt didn't think he would be able to make it as his tummy had a moment, but he got over it, he had a good time chatting to the lads and I had a great time chatting to girlies and dancing to the music. The Bottom Club is well known for being a bit of a dive and where teenagers learn to drink, and at one point the teenagers arrived en masse, saw us 40 year olds having fun, singing and dancing to old music and left, which meant we could continue believing we were back to being 20 something rather than 40 something and enjoy ourselves. Didn't get home until around 2am.
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| Tom and Lucas |
Saturday 6th April was a beautiful sunny day, shame we were hung over! Tom had a football match at home (thankfully) and I had some cakes being collected, so I stayed at home, whilst Matt went down to the match. In the afternoon Tom had a badminton tournament in Dallam - his first. He did very well - think he came 3rd from 5 - certainly deserved to be there and he enjoyed it. He just needs to get a fire in his belly for wanting to win and he will be away. It was a sort of a shame to miss such a beautiful day, but on the other hand we were tired and hungover, so really it was a bit of a God send.
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Ribblehead Viaduct from Whernside
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| Handsome herdy |
Sunday 7th April we had a lazy morning, headed to Goat Gap for lunch and then Tom went to Lynne's for the afternoon - she took him to Pine Lake for a swim and play whilst Matt and I walked up Whernside as part of my 3 peaks training. It was another lovely day, although a bit hazy (of course once we were down it was lovely and clear but isn't that always the way?!) and very windy at the top. My blister behaved itself, got some special plasters and didn't feel a thing which was good. A nice 9 miles - not a difficult one to go up, just long! At 7 we headed to Lynne's to pick up Tom who had had a good time, then back home and bed ready for a busy last week at school.
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| Timely refreshments |
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