Friday was Science Group and as we were looking at the heart and circulation one of the mum's, whose husband is a Gamekeeper, brought along a Roe Deer heart to have a look at. Eilidh was absolutely fascinated!! We all had a look inside the heart and found out all the different bits and Eilidh sat quite merrily dissecting it and studying it!! She has decided she wants to be a Veterinary Nurse so I guess this is good training!!

On Sunday we went down to Millerbeck Light Railway in Staveley-In-Cartmel for an afternoon with our friends from Kendal. This is a privately run railway which only opens a few times a year. I was just expecting a little railway which ran around a big garden but it was much better than that!! There were about five different engines running. The track is about a mile and half long and winds it's way around a big paddock area with bridges, turntable, miniature signal box and station and Alpacas!! Ben and Eilidh thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We stopped for a picnic although the weather was cold and they had a couple of rides on different engines before heading on to Fellfoot Park for a play in the park there. A really good day out!

Not much has happened since then, our Toyota which has sat unused outside our house for about two years has finally had it's gearbox done and waltzed through an MOT with just a few bits to be sorted. Unfortunately it's far too expensive for us to run so it is going up for sale but at least it's all sorted and will soon be going!! We have been offered a little car on Freecycle which needs some work so we will see if we can get that running and hopefully be mobile again!!

Today we made a load of cakes which the kids spent ages icing (with yucky green icing) and loading with marshmallows, chocolate bits, silver balls and coconut. Out of 26 there are now NONE!! Well, we did take them around to some friends and they helped gobble them up!