Easy Week

Tom's team came second

I didn't have any cake bookings for this week - yay!!!!  I spent 2 days sorting out the kitchen and garage and putting in an equipment order and then I relaxed.  Phew.  I was going to treat myself to a day in Leeds, but because I had been to Preston I didn't really feel the need, plus the car was having work done to it meaning Matt would have taken me to and fro on the bike (and it was raining most of the week!)

Thursday was my birthday.  Not a remarkable day - had lots of lovely presents in the morning - thank you everyone.  Matt took me out for lunch and then he headed to Sheffield for a translators conference.  I returned home and spent the rest of the afternoon turning the car alarm off - what a pain.  Meant I couldn't relax!  Oh hum.  The afternoon was spent in 2 coats, bobble hat, scarf and glove watching a regional footie tournament at school - Tom's team came second which was great - he actually did really well with assists etc (he was playing mid field which I think is his best position)

In the evening the car alarm was still going off, so I called the AA out.  Janine then turned up with a bottle of wine so we had a lovely natter in the kitchen waiting for the AA man to turn up.  He eventually did so an hour after I was told to expect him.  It wasn't an AA man - but a local pick up truck from Morecambe.  Of course, since I called the alarm hadn't gone off so he decided to leave it and told me to call again if it went off again.  Oh joy.  Didn't sleep that night worrying about it going off!

Roller skating...

Friday I decided to head into Windermere to do a spot of shopping at Lakeland.  I got new 8 inch and 7 inch tins and some other bits and pieces (thanks for the voucher M&D).  The car alarm flat lined all the way in and all the way back again which was a pain, because I got stuck in a traffic jam and having an alarm flat lining all that time was quite annoying. Oh hum.  As it seemed to be the front sensor which was constantly going off, I decided to back the car into every parking space including at home and the alarm didn't go off again - phew!  Booked it into the garage for next week too.

Tom had cricket in the evening and then he went to bed and the girls arrived for curry.  Had a really good evening full of belly laughs - Janine being the instigator of most of them, which included her 'attempting' to roller skate around the kitchen.  Think it was a good release for many people there.  In fact Sarah said her sides were aching the next day from so much laughing which is good.

Saturday we were up early again - another footie tournament, but this time it was with Craven Wanderers.  They mixed up the teams so each team had different ages of players (the older ones only allowed to score one goal each and had to pass it to younger players etc).  It was a really good event, lovely atmosphere, but it may have put Tom off footie for a while.  At one point he dissolved into tears saying he thought he had broken his foot and then again later on he just suddenly started crying and said his leg had 'gone'.  Funnily enough as soon as he found out there were no more games he was fine and kicking the ball all over the place.  Hummmm, I think Tom just wants to play football with his friends.  He really isn't a match player at all.  He was the youngest in his team, looked lost and was very intimidated by the bigger and older players.  (Ages went up to 13 - but some of the 13 year olds looked about 16!).  We will see if he returns to Craven (I would be quite happy if he didn't, but it isn't my decision to make).  Once the tournament was over, there was a coaches vs Dads match - which was pretty brutal.  Matt was up for it and would have taken part if he was here.  I was very glad he wasn't here and now he is banned from ever putting his name down for it.  It was great to watch as a spectator, but it was very physical - played by bulky young blokes - Matt would have got broken in no time!

Lazy brunch in the garden

We had a easy afternoon - went to Goat Gap for lunch, did some thank you shopping for the coaches, and then went to the Footie Award night in the evening.  This is normally a pro-longed, excruciating evening with lots of long speeches which no-one listens to, kids are out of control and parents drunk. I wasn't looking forward to going along by myself.  They changed the format - hurray!  It was much shorter and everyone was very happy about it.  It was also a nice warm evening so most of the boys went down to the community field to play football whilst the parents socialised.  Tom didn't, he had had enough of football, so he stayed and did dancing with the DJ and Jack and Sierra (never seen him willingly do that before?!).  It was a very pleasant evening, time flew and before we knew it we were home and in bed.  

Sunday, we had a very lazy morning - didn't get up til 10am.  Then Tom went to the Co-op to buy some brunch ingredients which we ate outside in the sunshine.  We then picked up Matt from Clapham, came home, did a quick walk around Storrs Common and had tea.  A very pleasant 'nothing' day which we all needed.

Oh and Sumo started today - so it is 'teas on knees' for the next 2 weeks - yay!!!!!