Life gets busy again

By the third week of September my life always gets hectic again. It’s what happens when you work at a University unfortunately. I do have a few birthday photos to upload even though they are from about 3 weeks ago, and I am going to post some holiday photos as well, sometime!

Here is one birthday photo

and a cake shot (I was 2 hahaha)

 

All done

Well the dissertation was handed in almost two weeks ago. I thought I would feel relief when I handed it in but actually I just felt exhausted. Since then we have been camping for a week so I am even more exhausted.

Wuffy went back to school today. We are slightly worried about how he will get on as he is one of the children they have put into a year two class rather than a year one class. We were told that he would be bored in year one and needs to be challenged. I think he was a little worried about being with so many older children but there are about 7 year ones in the class so he isn’t alone.

I will post some holiday pictures when I get a chance. The MSc means I now have a years worth of tidying and cleaning to catch up on in the house!!

 

Gibson Mill updated

If I said I am really really busy again would you believe me?

I can’t believe that just when I am so busy Wuffy got Chicken Pox, although i have to say that his Daddy has been wonderful and stayed with him everyday so that I could go to work which is totally crazy right now.

Here are a few pictures of Gibson Mill, I have more to post and I will add some words so check back for an update

This is the actual mill taken across the mill pond

This of course is my little tree hugger

Here he is inside the mill playing the “green” snakes and ladders, the ladders all had message like “You used an energy saving light bulb well done” and the snakes “you left the lights on when no one was in the room”. Actually it is highly likely that none of them were those exact things but you get the idea.

Upstairs in the mill they have some old machines, this is one where you pull the lever to flip a metal ball round and hopefully into the winning hole (you don’t actually win anything but they are all free)

and the one armed bandit, bit blurred as he was moving too fast and I had the cheap camera with us

They also have a tea area set out as at one time the mill was a big tourist destination and tea dances used to take place there

At the wishing well Wuffy complained that his wishes never came true, he thought for a second and said “I but they never come true they jusy say that to get you to throw some money in”  So cynical for 5!

They often have artwork for sale in the mill, there are two of these glass pieces, the other is all reds and purples, I would buy both of them if I had somewhere to put them as I LOVE them

I will start another post for our walk past the mill and on to hardcastle crags, it was a proper walk carrying our lunch and Wuffy used his new rucksack which he was very excited about

 

Another Birthday

It was Daddy’s birthday at the weekend.  We made a chocolate cake (his favourite) and because I had bought some number cutters Wuffy thought we should put Daddy’s age on it. Daddy was really pleased with that!! We had silly party hats and party poppers with our meal and Wuffy had a great time

A few photos

Playing unicorns

Wuffy spent the entire day in his pyjamas!!!

 

Teeth and illnesses

Warning this post contains a yucky tooth/gum picture!!!!

Some of you may remember back in 2004 when Wuffy fell at nursery whislt holding a recorder.  Being only 13 months the recorder hit the floor before he did and as the other end was in his mouth it made a pretty good mess of one of his front teeth.  This resulted in a general anaesthetic on Christmas Eve to remove the tooth.

Some while later what looked like a tooth began to appear in the gap, the dentist had a look and said it was clearly some root that had remained in the gum when they removed the tooth. We were actually at a loss to understand how they left some root when he was under a general anaesthetic, surely they could have made sure it all came out.  The gum was already damaged and they had to put stitches in it so a bit more exploration would have been possible.

So this root has been there for over three years, it isn’t white and looks a bit yucky but the dentist has kept saying that it is doing a good job as it is keeping the gap open.  Apparently teeth are lazy and will happily fall into a gap that appears.   So at least there will be a gap for his big boy tooth when it appears.

Last weekend Wuffy suddenly announced that he had something sticking out of his gum.  We had a look and this is what we could see

 

 

 

I’ve moved this down a bit otherwise it is instantly visible meaning the warning is useless

We went to the doctor who simply said it was nothing to do with him, he clearly was not at all interested and just said go to the dentist.  Ok so we went to the dentist. He said he needed to take an x-ray to see what it was.   He told Wuffy he would be taking an x-ray and it would be black and white, then he said that’s before your time.  To which Wuffy replied “I know what an x-ray is it’s a picture of your bones”.   We all had to go right to the end of the room and Wuffy laid in the chair holding the film in his teeth whilst the x-ray was taken.   He didn’t move at all and was very very brave.

Once the picture was developed the dentist could see that the bit sticking out is actually the other end of that piece of root!!  Clearly the piece they left in his gum was huge.  When he damaged the tooth it had lifted upwards and twisted ripping his gum, the root left is obviously still on an angle hence it is now breaking through the gum.  The dentist is not worried and said it should be fine until his other teeth come through, we just need to keep an eye on it.

The x-ray was great we could see two rows of teeth, it was a bit weird seeing all of Wuffy’s big boy teeth lined up waiting to make an entrance.  At least we know they are there and seem to be in the right place  Wuffy asked if he could take the x-ray home but unfortunately the dentist said no he needed to keep it on his file.

In other news Wuffy’s Grandad is in hospital.  He went in last weekend for an operation on his hand, the op took over 6 hours and although it seemed to go OK he has been struggling ever since.  He is having problems with both his blood pressure (very high) and his kidneys (not working as they should).  At the moment we are just waiting for an MRI scan which they seem to be a bit slow in organising!! Wuffy made him a get well card yesterday which we need to get in the post.

 

Christmas – a little late

well you know what they say about better late than never

Wuffy left his stocking by the dining room fireplace as he knows Santa will come down that chimmney

I was up before anyone else and managed to get a picture before the mayhem began

Wuffy opened his stocking first, he loved this pudsey bear and shared the rest of his stocking presents with it!!

Then he went into the living room and saw the presents under the tree

he started telling us what this would be

He was right

With Grandma on Christmas Day

Built at last

Is this the only Playmobil plane in the world to have knitted cushions? He asked his Grandma to make tham on Christmas Day and being a wonderful Grandma she did

our living room window, posted because I thought it looked good it was better in the dark but the photo of that is not very good

and finally a couple of food pictures

i’ve just noticed that the only food photos I took at Christmas were of chocolate

 

Birthday Photos

 

 

This is the cake he had at home on his birthday

His birthday tea was what we call a “bits and bobs” meal Wuffy loves this type of meal

The Hornby train set he got for his birthday (purchased from Woolies )

 

I’m busy

I suppose I should have expected a comment from Cat after leaving a similar one on her blog

I’m a bit busy. Having been off work sick for three days during half term week, last week meant I had loads to catch up on.  Also Wuffy was 5 last week which involved a small brithday cake and party tea on Thursday, this was just for the three of us.  Then at the weekend he had a party which meant we had relatives staying and I had to make a big birthday cake. I do have photos and will post them when I get a chance, as I said I’m busy

We have an American friend staying with us next week so I’ll be even busier!! We are picking her up at the airport on Sunday, Wuffy is very much looking forward to watching planes We stayed with this friend when Wuffy was 4 months old, clearly he doesn’t remember this.

 

Other things

We had some interesting weather last week, interesting enough for me to take a couple of photos

Wednesday morning it was pouring down but we did get this as compensation

Then we had a wonderful sunrise, can’t remember whether this was Thursday or Friday

Saturday was glorious

We went to my Mum’s on saturday, here Wuffy is concentrating hard on playing the organ (the thing on his cheek is a sticker he had it on all day)

Feeding the geese with Grandma and Grandad

By the weird “thing”, they ripped up all of the old cobble stones to do this!!!! The weird thing is actually a new Eleanors cross and it was only revealed last week

pretty bridge and tree

we walked back via the park, very important when you are 4

We had a good day and the weather was beautiful

 

Apple Day and Skipton

For details of apple day events click here

Yesterday was Bradford Apple Day, this bag contains lots of apples

When we got there we noticed a big food area

I said to David that I bet they didn’t have anything we could eat but how wrong I was. As far as I could tell all of the food was vegetarian and lots of it was vegan

Wuffy had the flan which was chickpea, squash, carrot, onion and apple

I had the autumn tagine with dumplings and david had the spicy lentils and apple with cous cous

It was all delicious and it all contained apple We didn’t get round to asking about desserts but I’m guessing that some of then were vegan and they had soya milk

There were different events for children

apple tasting

The orchard is very new being planted in 2003 so the trees are still small

They had some good information boards

Wuffy tried his hand at juicing apples (it tasted delicious)

Here are the apples that were in that bag

 

Top row are Ashmead’s Kernel and Howagate Wonder, middle row Blenhein Orange and Kidd’s Orange Red and at the front Adam’s Pearmain and Ribbston Pippin

After the apple day we drove up to Skipton partly becasue we like Skipton and partly because there were a couple of things we wanted to buy there. Wuffy loves Skipton Castle but we didn’t have time to go round it yesterday

They also have a nice church

We went on a canal boat ride round the back of the castle

There are lots of swans on the canal

So far today we have done nothing we are all too tired!!