Last Babysitting?

We had a supper on Sunday so we could invite some people who hadn’t seen Jean and Tegwyn, our Welsh visitors, for a while. We got a visit from our new minister Christopher. Sue was stewarding at Church and he came along so she invited him to our house. A very personable bloke and we all got a chance to chat to him. Jean and Tegwyn knew him from another circuit so didn’t feel left out.
Jean and Tegwyn packed up on Bank Holiday Monday morning and went home. We followed them on the M62 shortly afterwards. We were on our last official baby sitting service. First thing though, we went to see Transformers. What a belter of a film. Barbara stayed and looked after Kirsten and I went with PAR. We all thoroughly enjoyed it because it was good in so many ways.
On Tuesday, Barbara and I packed up and went up to Knaresborough. PARK had been there and recommended we went. We had a smashing day, throwing stones in the river, walking, Pooh sticking, playing football, rowing on the river, playing cricket, scootering, eating ice cream, picnicking etc. etc. The weather was okay, if a little cool but it meant we didn’t overheat.
Tuesday was my nephew Duncan’s birthday and we were invited to the celebratory meal in the evening. Once Amanda was home, we went round to Derek’s house and joined the throng who were going out. It was a mostly family do and Mum was there as was Paul, another nephew. There was Celia and Linda from Duncan's Mums side of the family with Linda’s boys. It was great to catch up. We went to the Lucky Dragon in Leeds. We went in convoy because we weren’t sure where the place was (Templar Lane LS2). As we were approaching, we passed a group of over 50 people, mostly Chinese. We joked that we hoped they weren’t going to the restaurant but they were! As far as we could gather, they had been on a trip to Blackpool and a meal at the Lucky Dragon was part of the deal! We needn’t have worried because, even though the place was packed, our table was there and the service was excellent as was the food. We left around 9.30, said our farewells outside and went directly back to PARKs house
On Wednesday, we took the kids to Roundhay Park. We really did Roundhay, going to places on our walk that none of us had been to before. It really is a lovely place. The only downside was that the Café on the lake that we have been to before had a fire last year so wasn’t open. We went instead to the one near Tropical World. After a sandwich, we made a lemur mask for Rowan and Kirsten at a stall set up there in aid of EAZA Madagascar. Made quite a good fist of them too. Cricket, scootering, playground, etc etc filled the rest of the day.
After dinner together, we bade our farewells and wiped away a tear. They are all coming to see us next week but it is the last official baby sitting service we will be doing.Today, I have been doing some banking for my Willersley job and had a room allocation meeting with Sue ready for the weekend away. It is Barbara’s coffee evening tonight so she has been preparing for that. In fact, the coffee evening has just started so I have come upstairs to type this on the laptop! There must be thirty conversations going at once!