Its a Gruffalo (HAT!)

Its a bit late but a few weeks ago i decided to make a gruffalo hat for Fred and since he wore it i have made several for others.

The older kids have also been fighting over this hat so i might have to make some more!

Family time

These last few weeks have been lovely. Although i have been waiting for baby to come (and he still hasn't, i was due yesterday!) we have had some of the  few full weekends we have ever been able to spend as a family, having the shop was a 7 day a week job so the odd day off was as goo as it got, then his new job is really a job where he needs to work weekends to get sales, but at least he can take holiday days. We decided to go the the Ribble Steam Railway ans Ewan has always wanted to go on a steam train however when we got there it was closed and would not be open for another two weeks (i should really read the website before we set off on these jolly's!). So we went to the next place on the list The museum of Lancashire in Preston. Well it was fantastic for the kids, well all of us really. They had activity's for the kids in every room. The first was a little archaeology dig site that the kids had to dress up in fluorescent waistcoats and hard hats and excavate various things from a pit of rubber chips and then sort them into glass, pottery, tile etc., They also dressed as children from a Victorian school, a little drummer during the boar war,a judge and dug veg's up from the home front during the second world war. They learn't so much and we all had a really good time. I would recommend it to anyone and best of all its completely free. Wish i had taken my camera!