Choices

Drive all the way to Scunthorpe (5 hours?)and then back 24 hours later.
Spend obscene amounts of money on fuel.
Spend too much time on clogged 'start of the holiday' roads.



OR



Invite Alec for the weekend (who is looking, scarily, more and more like a teenager at 11 going on 12!)
Spend a very happy three plus hours teaching my little agility classes. And they were even happier when Jane produced a big cake for them all to eat part way through!
Listen to the woodpeckers and the buzzards while we did this.
Set truly horrid weave entries for Neil before he goes off to the EO tryout (oh and try them with Nellie too who loves her weaves!)
Have Al and Iain turn up to see and chat to everyone. Al really enjoys coming along to meet everyone. Go for lovely long walks with the dogs, stopping at a pub on the Sunday half way round.
Spend the money we'd have spent on fuel taking him out to a really, really nice restaurant.
And hearing him tell me when sat in our kitchen, 'You know Aunty Helen, it is like Henry and Pop are still here with us.'

Bless him.



The pictures will tell you the choice I made.....