Out at a show (or two)

Spent the day at Honley show, which was nice 😉

Got there just in time to miss seeing my sister come first in the novice pony section, which is rather a shame, but we did manage to spend an hour with her at the stables. Quite amused to discover that Small is not the slightest bit scared of any animals, including the extremely large German Shepherd who lives at the stables. Said dog half-inched Small’s sandwich, right out of his hand, under my nose at that! Monster animal. He then spent the rest of our visit in an empty stable…

Met up with Jan and Jonathan and spent the afternoon together. Dd has a big thing for Jan’s C – bit of hero worship going on there I think. That was the cause of the only fallout this afternoon – when dd wanted to be next to C at all times, but another of C’s friends got in the way. It was sorted fairly quickly, and other than that, dd did pretty well all day. We saw donkeys, horses, dogs, poultry, craft work – the children spent ages watching a woman with a spinning wheel. (In fact we did chat with her as to whether we could hire her as a children mesmoriser!). Small was entranced by the brass band and an mechanical organ, but he does find being carted around rather frustrating now. Time to learn to walk methinks!

Then as we were all a bit tired, we retired to J and J’s for tea – well, eventually, after I found my car! This is the drawback of parking a fiesta in a field, especially when you’re not even sure which field…

After tea, the children put on another show. It was a circus apparently, and they were very clear about what they were doing and who was supposed to go where and say what. It was the first time I’ve seen dd do anything quite like it, so that was rather good too. And I always enjoy chatting with Jan and Jonathan – enlightening conversations all round.

Reasonable journey home, but a late night all round. So I think I’d better set the alarm so that I can get to Barbara‘s in the morning…