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We had a great weekend over at PARKs. An outing to Fairburn Ings on Saturday and Shipley Glen/Ilkley Moor on Sunday. The kids enjoyed the Sunday trip better. A lack of patience means that bird watching is not their gig. We were most impressed by their rock climbing skills on the Cow and Calf at Ilkley tho'. We took a picnic to Shipley and ate it after a hike down to the water and back. Kirsten, in particular, did well as she is the one with the shortest legs! The odd spit of rain didn't deter us and we went round to Ilkley via the scenic route then clambered all over the Cow and Calf.
It was totally different not to have the children's school to worry about. We stayed over until Monday morning but the routine was not changed so we saw them off to school and then had our breakfast before we went and picked up my Mum who were bringing back with us.
We had a full itinerary planned for the visit. It started with a trip to Morrisons to stock up! Monday evening, we went to Hull Truck to see Neville's Island. We also took Audrey from next door. I enjoyed it even though a bird-watching Christian, Roy, was the butt of a lot of the humour. It did have me thinking of answers if I was ever subjected to the same abuse! Audrey really enjoyed it and laughed quite a lot. Barbara admitted afterwards that she didn't care for any of the characters and so couldn't empathise with them.
On Tuesday, Barbara had the fellowship here so I took Mum in to town and to the St Stephens shopping centre. She was quite impressed with the whole thing and very impressed with the Tesco store there. I was pretty impressed too, mostly based on the "ingredients" section. I found a couple of things that I have always had to go to a specialist shop for. If I only go in for Linghams Chilli Sauce, they will have a regular customer!
I think I tired Mum out really. We made our way across to the Art Gallery to have our lunch. Barbara met us at the City Hall. Afterwards, we had a bit more shopping and then caught the bus back home.
We had invited Lisa and Alan round for dinner so I got on with the chopping. I was doing a recipe out of Gordon Ramsays Fast Food cookbook. The cooking is fast but the chopping took longer! Still it was very tasty and the platters were cleared. By the time L&A had gone, we decided to go to bed. Bit early really and we regretted it early in the morning when we woke up!
Mum is out to dinner tonight so we took her home today. The plan was to call in at Junction 32 for a look round. I reckon the shopping the day before and the poor night's sleep had tired Mum out and she declined so we took her straight home. We then called in at PARKs because we left some toiletry bags there on Monday. Amanda was in as she has a couple of days off so we had a cuppa before going to "Las Cas" (Junction 32 also known as Freeport Castleford). We have a couple of holidays booked and the second one to Goa is causing us some concern clothing wise! We both got some stuff this afternoon.
Barbara had to be home to take Lisa and her cat, Bailey, to the vets. It was a repeat visit as Bailey has a scratch on his eye (How did he get that I wonder?). Fortunately, the treatment prescribed is working okay.