A Yorkshire weekend

i have to mention that I cried going past Leeds in both directions. SO still homesick then! the bit of the A1 round there I know like back of hand, so even though they had changed the road!!! I still felt the tug at the signs. particularly the A64 [which for a year i trotted up and down commuting to York]

Hmm!

On the way home we stopped at Aunty Margarets, which was wonderful. As old readers of this blog may remember, she used to come round on a fortnightly basis when we were in Leeds, and i have missed her. So we spent the weekend there. Bit of a later arrival than expected due to the pernicketyness of the youth hostel manager.

SO nice evening, with BB showing off her walking and talking and general being adorable skills [she was under the weather at christmas]. SB got out Aunty Margarets collection of books and made her read loads. She also liked Aunty M’s rather ancient maths shape things [now called polyhedrons in the brightminds catalogue]. She was very good at manipulating them and making shapes. good, as we have bought some! We got to drink wine[surprise] and chill! As we were all sharing a room, the amount of sleep we got was silmilar to at Melrose – approaching 0!

Saturday was a beautiful weather day. Just absolutely perfect for taking great shots at the West Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Or would have been if we had a camera – aaarghh!!! The light was perfect, as was the landscape. Oh well, Alison linked to some rather nice ones on flickr in the comments below! We are just not made for lack of camera. SB decided to work out which was her favourite. She was taken by the various Henry moore statues , the access sculpture trail, and in fact lots of the sculptures. She was also rather taken by the tree climbing opportunities. She got quite high in one tree, and was persuaded to come down as I was getting nervous. on the ground she tripped over a tree root… BB also enjoyed poddling about the place – taking ages obviously! Both of them had a good walk in the beautiful sun. Maybe Aunty Margaret will have a few photos for us!

in the evening, fed up with Aunty Margaret’s toys, she was allowed to open a birthday present early, as Merry had given it to us. She loved the pink geomags – thankyou Merry! [can't think why you chose pink - rofl] and immediately managed to make a pyramid, cube and diamond and then various shapes I am going to have to look up! So the lollipop phase is over then.

Another night of less sleep than required and we were off home. An uneventful journey, except stopping at the most unfortunate travel stop in the world! There was not veggie food in the moto cafe bit as they stop serving lunch at 3 and bring out differnt stuff, and it was quarter past 2 so she didn’t want to cook and waste any!, and at the little chef the oven didn’t work, so basically only breakfast. So thats what we had!

At home we unpacked, looked at a couple of blogs, SB played a lot of the year 1 jump ahead and BB just pottered about. SB is calling her chickpea at the moment, but I guess it is too late to change her name!
End of a lovely week!