Home again
Well we’re home! This is after a 4 hour, 20 min train journey on my own with the terrible twosome. In fact they were pretty good – no, they were basically very good – I just got tired and cranky by the end of it. It’s been a wonderful break – 3 holidays in one.
To start with we spent 4 days in a bungalow/cottage/chalet on Rudyard Lake. The children had a wonderful time. Ruth really got to grips with walking and she had her very first choc-ice 
We had some wonderful days out – a walk round the lake followed by a train-ride home along a miniature railway, an abortive attempt to go to Biddulph Grange Garden which turned into a much more successful and cheaper (i.e. free) walk through Biddulph Grange Country Park, and the best one of all was a trip to Ceramica, where we knew we were onto a winner when we were invited to eat our picnic sitting on a comfy sofa in the middle of the exhibits. All of us had a wonderful time (£3.95 each for adults, free for under-4s).
Then we were “oop North” to my cousin’s wedding – I’m uneasy about posting photos of people without asking their permission, so here’s one of Ruth in her party gear:
It was a lovely wedding – my cousin (my baby cousin – all grown-up and married now!) was beautiful, and the groom was… well, very Italian – as were all three of his best men
John then returned home to decorate Ruth’s room, while I stayed at my parents’ with the children. We took them for their first trip to the beach at West Kirby – lots of sand, but no sea, but there really was lots of sand, and a large portion of it ended up on their clothes. (And Adam had a “proper” icecream – a vanilla cone with a flake and raspberry sauce – and he ate it all without dropping any of it!)
And the knitting? Well, I did manage to get some done, but not as much as I’d hoped.
The garden? Well Adam’s sunflowers are out:
and the tomatoes are ripening, and a couple of the courgettes are getting ideas above their station – at the end of the season we’ll let a few of them grow big and make marrow and lemon jam.
one comment:
hello there – I have just found your blog and wanted to say that you little girl looks gorgeous – don’t you just love it when they get covered in chocolate – so holiday !Becky () (link) - 15 August '05 - 22:01
