DO BEARS WATCH TV IN THE WOODS?

We spent the whole of this morning driving to Scarborough and Pickering in order to look at cars.  We had a few in mind we wanted to see but quickly realised we were going about it the wrong way.  We need to sort our driving licences out first.  Then KP suggested we find a car we like, look it up on the Internet to find who is selling them, and then ring lots up and try and find the best bargain.  Which means tomorrow we have to go back to the hire company at the airport, take our Monster Biffa car back and get two other cars (for hopefully not more than a week).

One good thing about our trip this morning was that it made us realise we certainly didn't want to live in the places we visited this morning.  We chose right.

We got back to the house to wait for our TV man to connect us.  While we were waiting we made a Roast Dinner (not easy with an electric oven I've never used before and pots and pans that aren't my own), and we played hide and seek in the garden.  Great fun.

ready or not, here I come

smallest is here somewhere

Ahh, there is a head.....

Surprise!!!!

After we had our homemade dinner (it actually worked out okay except that we couldn't find proper gravy and the sachet we found was too thin and Huffle tried to make me pastry without any scales or measuring spoons) and we saved our pudding for later.

We went back to the Woods for a really nice long walk.

A really long tree trunk broken across the top of the track we were walking on

The sun is just starting to go down

Swinging on a branch

They climbed this slope and then slid all the way down.

We found this little elf sitting on a log

It was a great walk and we managed to get just a little but further than last time, so maybe we'll get even further next time.  There were a few mountain bikers there today but it was still relatively empty.

I decided to drive home (I need the practice after all).  I ran over a squirrel on our drive.  I thought it was a leaf, honest.  The red squirrels here are small and a bit leaf like!!??!.  I sent the Smalls to check it out and I'm sorry to say that I had definitely run it over.  Poor Mr Squirrel!!

When we got home, the kids put the new TV on.  We couldn't find a lot but what was interesting was that it told us what age it was applicable for before it came on.  Now that's a good idea.

Goggle eyed in front of the TV.  

If you look in one of the pictures you can see a reflection of what they are watching

We had another game of Hide and Seek this evening before bed, this time inside (challenging due to the smallness of the place) but fun all the same.

We have done a lot of skyping the past few days and have managed to speak to Moo, Grandma, LizzieDotDot, HB, Aunt Pear, Grandad, Yahoo, Elderflower Meadows.  Nice to speak to people and to see them too.  I have own set up Skype on my phone too so expect some invitations from me soon (those of you that Skype us).