Up and down

 On Saturday our village had its gala at the castle, it was postponed from a very wet weekend in June. Sadly in the past few years they dropped the parade, just too much hassle to get roads shut and the insurance got just too much.

Our local police force was present again, always a police car where children can sit inside, a female officer showed Will how to turn on the blue lights, he also like loads of other children got his fingerprints taken, which he really loved.

Both Molly and George loved this bouncing ride, Molly is fearless and managed on her own, only needing help to get higher. George was a bit too light and needed loads of help, we were unsure if George would be allowed on, the man running it was happy for him to try and agreed he loved it.

They had a couple goes on this swing ride, both loving it, neither worried as it got faster, sitting together helped they were laughing together.

Saturday was overcast and dry, with a welcome breeze, perfect for a day outside, we spent the morning out and the afternoon in our garden. Our gala is becoming more commercial,  two small fairgrounds, one for younger children and the second with adult rides, both outside the castle grounds. Still a lovely family day.

Later at our daughters we had a Chinese takeaway shared with Will, the little ones had their meal earlier and we bathed them and put them to bed. We slept over, which was good because daughters cat took ill, we were worried it looked as if he had gone blind, daughter sat with him, at 2am he took worse and I drove her to an emergency vet, sadly Minty (always loved his name), had little options, and at 15 he was put to sleep. Neither daughter or I got much sleep, Sunday we brought George  and Molly back to ours until early afternoon so daughter could sleep, we rested later. What more can life throw at our daughter.

We started watching men's final tennis, and yes BBC played their stupid games, we watched the first very tight set, with one switch of Channel and then they decided not to show the second set, gymnastics and shooting with british interest instead, again so frustrating, why do they only have 2 stations, BBC1 and one one iPlayer. Later after giving the results of the match, they announced we could watch the second set on iPlayer, really, that's not how it should work.