Doing the day(s) out...

Spent this week being an engineer, Bricky and tour guide.  First thing was to reseat all the ridge tiles on the house extension and also re-point the gable ends.  I think the original mortar must have been a rather sandy mix and thus weathered fairly quickly as the extension is only 13 years old.  Anyway it's all OK now.

Then there was the engineering, when we had the table on the boat altered to make it into a duel drop leaf table, resulting in more floor space in the saloon, I only made temporary supports for the leaves.  I needed a workshop to manufacture something more appropriate to the job bearing in mind they need to support all that food that Sandra keeps forcing on me and the weight of several hefty elbows!  To this end I have made two E shaped aluminium sliding supports which will travel back to Greece with us later this month.  Hopefully they will be more than up to the job.

Sandra in the meantime has been continually doing the child minding thing for Finley, Mason, Jessica and Melissa.  Fiona, the girls mum, had to have her tonsils removed last week and her Grandmother passed away the following day so she needed a little extra help this week.  Get well soon Fi.  So on Monday we took the girls to the "Sea Life Centre" at Scarborough.  We had a fantastic day looking at everything from jelly fish and sea horses to sharks and penguins.  I think my favourites though were the otters, it's not often you get to see the reclusive creatures close up, beautiful.  The girls I thinks loved the seals especially at feeding time.  Unfortunately I forgot my phone and camera yet again so no pictures I'm afraid.

Yesterday we took Mason and Finley up into the North Yorks Moors were we spent the day on the steam railway, a must for anyone visiting Yorkshire.  We visited Goathland (the fictional Aidenfield in Heartbeat.)  The boys loved it especially Mason who is thrilled by anything mechanical and in no time at all he had the working of points on the lines figured out and was wanting to know when Ford Anglia's came into being.  Smart lad!  Although they didn't know about Heartbeat the did know about Harry potter, and Goathland station was Hogwarts station in the films and the Anglia which was the flying car is also there so a double interest for them here.  Fish and Chips in Bridlington and then home completed a thirteen hour day for the tired little fella's.

On Wednesday it was our 37th wedding anniversary and we went to the Thai restaurant in Escrick with good friends Allen and Jean as it's their Anniversary on Sunday, we had a good night reminiscing but were really shocked by the price of drinks at the end of the night the girls had a wine and soda each and it cost £13.50, you could have got slaughtered for that in Greece.

When we got home last night our lovely tenants, Andrew and Lesley gave us the cake in the picture for our anniversary, thanks you two, a very nice but unexpected gesture.