Fathers Day Weekend

I have just had a fantastic Fathers Day weekend with my family. We have been out and about exploring more parts of Wickford on our bikes and even convinced Tina to rider her bike. So for the first time ever all 5 of us were out on our bikes at the same time. We discovered that a local park which is about a 1/3 of a mile from our house has been excavated to create loads of interlinking ponds. They have added a trail path around all the ponds and built some meadow mounds which can be cycled over. The kids absolutely love it here.

For Fathers day I got a new cushion for the sofa, some rum, a Toblerone and a really cool Range Rover Evoque wireless mouse. There a slight bit of irony in the mouse given that in 7 days time I will be made redundant from a job which I have been predominantly working on Jaguar / Land Rover products for the last 15 years or so. For Fathers Day dinner we treated ourselves to a KFC which was the first of 2020 due to the Covid lock down. It's not my top choice for a Fathers Day meal but given that we haven't had a McDonalds or KFC in probably 6 months, it was very nice indeed.

We also took our first trip in to Basildon Town Center since February as the shops have started to re-open and the kids were absolutely desperate for some new clothes. They have all outgrown their underwear and socks, and Joshua badly needed some t-shirts and shorts. It was kind of weird having to queue at every shop and having to social distance, but to be fair it was alright and we got everything we needed in good time and even treated ourselves to a rare Starbucks.

These are the new interlinking lakes/ponds which we discovered by a nearby park.

Nice new gravel path to travel between the lakes.

Beautiful meadow mounds for mountain biking over.

Brandon on the meadow dirt trail.

And anything her bog brothers can do, Holly can do.

This was a picture from earlier in the week when Holly thought it would be a good "challenge" for her to put pink and purple lipstick on me!!!!

Just a normal picture of the 4 of us in Basildon Town Center - the first time since lock down started in February. It was so nice to get out shopping and get some much needed clothes for the kids.

As Joshua is not at school until September he has been nagging us to let him dye his hair. We finally gave in as we figured he isn't at school, can't see nay of his friends, so lets let him get it out of his system. 

He opted to go for the purple Minion look.

My World. Fathers Day with my growing babies and Joshua's finished hair.

And odd choice for Fathers Day dinner, but after 6 months a KFC was very welcome indeed.

One of Holly's favourite foods is Melon and at school she made this absolutely fab Fathers Day card for me.

Inside had this beautiful poem which read:

Sometimes your beard is scratchy,

Sometimes your feet might smell,

You might even hog the bathroom,

And tell bad jokes as well.

But even with these reasons,

I'm really glad to say.....

To me, you are a Super Dad,

In every single way!

And with the irony of losing my jobs as a Program and Account Manager on JLR products, my lovely new Range Rover Evoque wireless mouse!