Continuing our summer visits to heritage sites, having despatched Jax off to work, Monday saw us off to that great British institution IKEA. Our mission, to pick up some bits and pieces Lily needs for uni.IKEA was, well, pretty much the IKEA we all know and um, love. Stocked full of the customary mediocre, over-priced tat and not very much of what we wanted. We did manage to replace the three matt black bowls Small broke a while back with three gloss black bowls, and get a replacement rug for the living room, had lunch in the restaurant and then headed off to Sainsburys to get the rest of Lily’s bits.
The afternoon we passed pleasantly at Shibden Park, which is just outside Halifax, We found some ducks and geese and a rather good play area, with the full array of swings, slides, rocking and turning things and everyone had a good time. Everything did have a kind of end of summer look to it, the rides were showing signs of wear and tear, peeling paint and so on, but nothing you would not expect. It is an excellent park, good car park, and in season there are a mini railway and boats to play on too. Another time maybe.
We wrapped up with 99s and Magnums. (Sharp intake of breath there, I very nearly added a butcher’s apostrophe). The Magnums were Magnums and the 99s were frankly not very good at all, Big and Small didn’t seem to mind, but I polished off the end of Small’s and the ice cream was rubbish.A good time, as they say, was had by all.
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