Bank holiday weekend

JJ went off to his third music festival this year so CJ and I spent some time with our girls.

We headed up the Northumbria coast to Seahouses for fish and chips.

.....it began to rain while we were eating!

So we retreated to the amusemant arcade...

The rain didn't last long though, so we went in search of candy floss and donuts....

                  

                                   

Then we headed up the coast a bit towards Bamburgh for a walk on the beach...

Ooops!

Heather made a sand castle

can you spot Chris and Lorna trying to hide in the dunes??

                           

Then we rounded the day off with ice creams in bamburgh...

Morning!

I was awake at 4.30 am this morning and so saw the sun rise!

Weekends

This weekend has been a blessed oasis of calm and quiet after a busy week and weekend.

CJ's parents arrived last Thursday evening. We enjoyed a trip to The Station at Richmond as the weather was dire (we even had the heating on!!) on Friday.

All the children were home for a family meal and a silly game.

On Saturday the weather looked much more promising so CJ and I took his parents off to Ryedale in search of places that they had read about in a book called The Plot.

First call was Bylands abbey,

Then it was time for lunch in Kilburn.

And a visit to the mouseman museum (The workshops were closed sadly).

The mousemans old cottage.

Then we went to Ampleforth to look at the abbey and have a drink and piece of cake.

 

The mouseman had been here too!