January

I made a New Year's resolution this year - to not get behind with the blog!  Ooops - it lasted 4 days!  January was pretty busy - I got wiped out chocolate-wise in December and had to start with nothing in stock.  I spent the whole month playing catch up, and still now in February still don't have much in the way of stock squirrelled away - meaning I am having to make pretty much every order as it arrives rather than just pull them out of the box and send them on their way.  First job was to restock Gingerbugs (which was down to very very little), then Sedbergh, all the whilst doing cakes (quite a busy month for cakes) and chocolate orders. My chocolate is all BB mid to late 2023 at the moment so it really does make sense to make stock up.

Tom seems to have been making friends at school.  He got invited to 2 sleepovers in January.  One with Ben who lives in Arnside and another with Tom who lives in Natland. It is so lovely that sleepovers etc are happening again and just wonderful to know that Tom is making friends.

Mum and Dad came up in the second week of January for a belated Christmas.  We had a big roast gammon, opened pressies which were under the wilting Christmas tree.  We had a fab time.  Luckily the weather this time was much kinder.  We had some wonderful blue sky days, other cloudy ones, but it DIDN'T RAIN!

We went to Tarn Hows on a beautiful day, loads of trees had been knocked over by Storm Keira, but it was still very lovely.  

We also went to Grassington for a walk by the river and to go James Herriot spotting as well as the usual trip to Morecambe (we sat outside and had lunch it was so sunny) and other trips here and there.  

Jungleskôg wormed his way into the affections of Mum and Dad and before we knew it, there was growling and silliness going on all the time.  The blue sofa typically had Mum, Dad, Tom and Jungleskôg on it every night and then silliness going on with Jungleskôg - with Dad being the team leader - was so funny to watch.  

On the 23rd, we finally got the train to Saltaire for a look around the mill, lunch (really really good) and then a canal side walk to Bingley which was very enjoyable.  

Another walk Mum and Dad could do next time they come up.  

Interesting architecture, a sculpture trail and just nice really to be out seeing somewhere new.  

 On the 29th, Tom and Matt went up to Ribblehead to see a double header in insane wind.

On the 30th, we went for a walk with Raddas around Ribblehead - did over 6 miles in the end.  Was a lovely afternoon full of chatter with the children lagging behind! 

Don't think Rebecca was impressed with the extended walk, however, the chatter between her and Tom didn't stop so it couldn't have been that bad.  Funny how when we are out with Tom we can barely keep up with him, however, when he is out with Rebecca, he suddenly slows down and finds everything hard work?!