A combined blog for the last 2 days as we have been to my mum and dad’s for a visit and had no time to blog last night.

Yesterday, kp and I didn’t get off to a good start. I felt like I had the world on my shoulders (packing, present wrapping, car battery charging, shopping etc etc…) and not enough time to do it. So, I was a bit faster than usual in trying to get kp showered and ready. kp’s speed was leisurely at its fastest. Needless to say, a few cross words were said, and it was the usual…..

dp:- ok……Shall we start the morning again ?
kp smiled, chuckled :- Yes, good idea.

We kissed and made up and started again.

I got het up again, and we had the exact same “shall we start the morning again” conversation about 10 minutes later.

Anyway, we got past that. Marie arrived at lunchtime to look after the dogs while we were away. We had some nice catch-up time with her and then had a lovely journey down to Lancashire. We hit rush hour queues but we didn’t mind.

We enjoyed a Steak and Sidney pie at mum’s before going to the Golf Club for a racing night. We had a cracking time, LOTS of laughs in good company. Here is kp counting her winnings…..

kp slept the whole way down in the car, so I was concerned she wouldn’t sleep tonight, but I needn’t have been. She slept like a lamb. I was woken up at 6am by the damn wall clock we bought Mum and Dad for their 40th wedding anniversary. Every 15 minutes thereafter it continued to keep me awake. Grrrrrrr ! Here is the view again. Our sheep (up north) haven’t lambed yet, but they lambed a couple of weeks ago in Lancashire. You may just be able to make out some lambs.

We got up about 10.15am and went downstairs to find Jane and Guy had arrived with Sophie and Jamie. We had a great time with them and all in all, it was a lovely weekend.

Here is Sophie cutting up her birthday cake. This was taken after the huge tears she had when we all sang Happy Birthday to her ?!?!??!?!

Very good journey back although kp couldn’t sleep ?! That’s it !