We've had another week of mixed weather here; everything from warm sunshine to hail and snow flurries, from freezing mornings to hot afternoons. It's just impossible to know what to wear!

Leigh is spending a huge amount of time out on the Prairie at the moment with some ridiculously early starts; this morning his lift was at 2.30am (and he only got home at 8pm the evening before) and that's not unusual! Thank goodness this is the last week of the exercise for this year and we can get back to some sort of normality... before we have to start getting up early again to hit the slopes! Grrr.



So the children and I have been spending alot of our spare time down at the ice arena, where I spend a back breaking hour helping Olivia & Charlie around the rink! Ben does help me as long as none of his friends are there... It's far too uncool to be holding your sisters hand going slowly around the ice - so uncool in fact that he will abandon her when one of them shows up! He's such a toad!



Olivia & Charlie love it though. Charlie can barely stand up yet and chuckles all the way around - he even asks me if I need a break to stretch my back! Olivia is improving each time and thankfully is reassuringly cautious! I did think she was going to throw in the towel though when she tore her favourite pink trousers!