It's been sunny all day!
Hurrah!
Didn't get any work on the house done today as Mr SW seems to have the local 'flu bug or something.
We did get out for a nice walk with the dog today though.
Luckily for us there is a disused railway track nearby, which we discovered a few weeks ago, the track is so deserted and broken up in places it's like a little nature reserve all to itself, with healthy trees sprouting between the sleepers, it looks just like a nursery bed at a garden centre. Really pretty.
We also found an apple tree growing quite happily by the side of the track and helped ourselves to a little bit of goodness whilst we were on our adventure.
We came across a fenced off bridge, the fence had been broken open by someone, so we thought we'd investigate .....
Wow! it's a former railway bridge over the canal, our dog and daughter showed no fear, but to tell the truth I was s
ing myself! Plummetting into the canal was not on my agenda for today. LOL!
So we followed the path a bit further and wandered down by the canal for a bit and saw a moorhen and ducks and a majestic swan - it hissed at the dog, although the dog wasn't all that interested in it.
Then we saw a man in a canoe - only he was using a plank to paddle rather than an oar - well it takes all sorts.
Daughter decided to start throwing a paddy around this point - she was hungry!
So we decided to see what would happen if we called her bluff and said OK you know the way home - see you later .. and off we walked.
(I was feeling really bad about doing it honestly!)
She arrived home 10 minutes after us and with a cheeky grin said I feel much better now .... grrr ... grrrr.....
Kids are such strange creatures ... how does everyone else deal with a 10 year old who is just so ..... bloody minded .. stubborn, argumentative etc ?
That's all from me - I'm knackered and going to watch a film.
Tara a bit x
