Easter holidays - lots of travel, lots of activities
We headed off up north on Saturday lunchtime on the second week of the Easter school holidays - up to Hexham to see Ruth and Sheep and family. They have a lovely large home which they rescued from being a near-ruin and are slowly turning into something rather magnificent. In the meantime even though there are various building site bits of it, there was enough room for all four of us to bed down very comfortably and to enjoy lots of great hospitality. Highlights:
* family games of all sorts - card games (the renamed "Before I Kill You Mister Bond" was a particular hit) and other turn-taking games packs (here is R balancing a load of wooden animals).
* Outings - one in the sunshine, to Beamish (an industrial heritage outdoor museum), and one in the wind & rain (Vindolanda, to see Hadrian's Wall). Also a day of relative quiet and downtime, where we walked to Hexham's public library in the lashing rain.
* a protracted trip home via Leeds, where we stayed with my uncle and aunt for two nights so that we could fit in both the National Railway Museum and the Jorvik experience (both in York).
We even also managed to see R's brother and sister in law, who drove down from Glasgow to be fed a home-cooked Sunday lunch by Ruth and family. An ace week away from home, and it felt so much longer than just a single week (and that in a good way!).
Now back home and have been back at work for a week, but it's that rare instance of a holiday which seems to have left me with more energy than it has taken out of me.
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* family games of all sorts - card games (the renamed "Before I Kill You Mister Bond" was a particular hit) and other turn-taking games packs (here is R balancing a load of wooden animals).
* Outings - one in the sunshine, to Beamish (an industrial heritage outdoor museum), and one in the wind & rain (Vindolanda, to see Hadrian's Wall). Also a day of relative quiet and downtime, where we walked to Hexham's public library in the lashing rain.
* a protracted trip home via Leeds, where we stayed with my uncle and aunt for two nights so that we could fit in both the National Railway Museum and the Jorvik experience (both in York).
We even also managed to see R's brother and sister in law, who drove down from Glasgow to be fed a home-cooked Sunday lunch by Ruth and family. An ace week away from home, and it felt so much longer than just a single week (and that in a good way!).
Now back home and have been back at work for a week, but it's that rare instance of a holiday which seems to have left me with more energy than it has taken out of me.
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