A more chilled week this week...

The loneliness of the long distance runner - Adam finally
crosses the line.

It's bee a much more relaxed week since the last update spent mainly entertaining grandchildren and attending school sports days.

Tuesday meant the return of Geoffrey from his mates in Broughty Ferry, Scotland.  He'd really enjoyed his time there and as usual they had spent it reminiscing about there time in India in world war two, it's really amazing how many times they can go over the same ground and yet make it sound like the first.  We don't begrudge them their trip down memory lane as I'm sure that their experiences are something that people will never live through again, HOPEFULLY!

Libby gets a first!

The people who are renting our house off us while we do a bit of travelling got married on Sunday so we had agreed to look after their animals while they were away.  We enjoyed this as it gave us an excuse to have a long walk down the river bank with the dogs.  It's a bit like having kids as a grandparent, you can give them back after you've had a bit of fun with them.  Andrew & Lesley Brought Sandra a lovely bouquet of flowers when they returned on Monday, thanks.  They have now gone for a few days honeymoon into North Yorkshire and Durham while leaving Lesley's dad in charge of the house and animals.  Good luck to Andrew & Lesley in their new married life together we hope things work out as well for you as they have for us.

Joe manages to get home.

Melissa doesn't want dad to see the results.

Mason's walking the invisible tightrope.

Tuesday and we were baby sitting for Jessica and Melissa while Fiona had to attend a meeting at school for next terms intake, we had great fun dressing up and with Sandra teaching them how to dance to "stayin' Alive", Tuesday Morning fever doesn't quite do it though!




In the afternoon it was the first of the school sports days featuring Mason and Jessica.  The weather stayed fine and they all had a great time although I think they were more inclined to spend time looking for whoever was watching them rather than racing.
A great afternoon out for the parents and Grandparents.



Thursday and the last of the Sports days especially for Joe & Libby who will be moving to secondary school in September, Adam was also participating in this one so we had someone racing in nearly all the events.

Sandra's gift for looking after the animals.

Again for the most part the weather stayed good although it was really too windy for the egg and spoon race which in these days of political correctness and health and safety, they don't use real eggs only thin plastic ones that have a tendency to fly in the slightest breeze.  I suspect that no one has though about weighting them with sand or water to make it more realistic.  The outcome of this was that the kids ended up chasing the "eggs" along the floor as they sped away from them. Our visit was curtailed by a heavy shower towards the end but again it was a real fun day.

Melissa and Jessica show they are proper
little angels.

This blog is again slightly late this week as I had terrible internet problems yesterday it was on and off all the time perhaps due to the climatic conditions but it seems better this morning so hopefully this will get through