Mum and Dad Visit

Mum and Dad came up for their annual visit.  Of course, as soon as they arrived it clouded over and started to rain.  It got sunny just as they left!  Oh hum!

They came just in time for the school Christmas Fair on Thursday.  This was the first time I wasn't running it - it was such a lovely experience.  We went round all the stalls, spent huge amounts of money and had fun interacting with the teachers and pupils.  All the year 6 pupils were running stalls, Tom was (as usual) doing what Charlie told him which was a rather complicated bowling alley type thing - lots of rules and regulations which kept changing!  Mum won 5 packs of Haribo!!!!!  Think we did every stall going and soaked in the atmosphere  - sat down had tea and a bun and just really enjoyed ourselves, much nicer than running around on PTA stalls, I'm so glad I have taken a back seat.

Tom (driving?) a train

Friday evening we headed to the OPO for drinks and then went for tapas - was a good evening - everyone enjoyed themselves.

Trains!

Saturday the boys headed to York to go to the National Railway Museum and I took Mum on a bit of mystery tour - she knew were were going out but not where or what...







First stop was a garden centre to go hunting for Christmas presents and then I took her to the Midland Hotel in Morecambe for Afternoon Tea.  Mum and I very rarely have any quality time together, this was lovely, so nice to be able to treat her.  We were both very relaxed and enjoyed the view of the bay and the cakes and sandwiches.  On choosing her tea, Mum went straight for Prosecco - go girl - I teased her, but really I was pleased that she was up for mid afternoon booze!

Mum drinking in the afternoon!

Tea for 2!

At work!

Unfortunately the weather was awful - the plan had been to walk along the prom at Morecambe afterwards, but it was driving rain and wind, so we gave it a miss and headed home.  It was a lovely afternoon.

Sunday we had a quiet day as Mum and Dad had been rushing around a bit since arriving up here.  Don't think we left the village.  However, I was still able to put them to work.  Matt and Tom went out to Ireby to pick up a Christmas tree and Tom, Mum and Dad were put to work decorating it - with Christmas music in the background and Christmas hats to wear.  In fact we got all the decorations out - found lots (as usual) that we had forgotten about including 2 new sets of lights.  I spent a while twisting the new lights around the bannisters - up and down each spindle - once done it looked lovely and festive.

The day ended with a proper roast in the evening - don't think Mum and Dad would know what to do if roast wasn't served on Sunday evening?!!!!

Snuggled up together - 3 peas in a pod!

Monday the sun came out and they headed home!  Was a shame the weather was rubbish and also that I was busy with work, so couldn't spend much time with them on the week days,   Oh well, they have promised to come in the summer next time...