Getting out and about was easier this week as we said goodbye to the snow and hello to the light rain and chills. 😉 It wasnt that bad actually and yesterday I took my youngest to a fabulous local park that has an amazing sensory play are and japenese garden. I was feeling very ‘outdoorsy” when my daughter remembered that there is a cafe in the park and then spent the next 20 minutes shouting “CHIPS!” at me. Much to the amusement of other adults in the park.

She can be a bit father Ted sometimes…”DRINK!” “FOOD!” “NOW!” and whilst i try hard to be firm sometimes you just have to giggle at her. We ended up in the cafe where she chose an, as they would say here, lolly-ice and i had a cuppa…while the dog wailed pitifully from his tie up post outside. We had to leave suddenly as the tiny little shed of a cafe had a fire alarm go off and she had to turn us all out!! The pensioners walking group were in the cafe at the same time and we mulled over the way that fire alarms seem to produce no urgency in anyone… how we had all slowly drained our cups and wondered out without much of a rush in true ‘reaction to a fire alarm’ fashion. We gave up waiting and headed off towards the car spying the most incredible tree with branches like an octopus. One part of it was very elephant trunk like we thought, well my daughter said…

We tried to feed the ducks but my daughter just sat in her buggy giving the ‘not ducks’ geese filthy looks as they fought over the bread. Overall though the skies were blue and it did my soul good to be outside. Linking up again with Country Kids