THE DIESEL AND THE STEAMIE

This morning we had to make a short trip to the local indoor markets for meat, not very exciting I know.  Now normally we would have just gone in the car, quickly got what we needed and headed home.  However we decided today that we would go in on the train which actually turned a chore into a fabulously fun (and virtually cost free) morning.

A & D have been on trains before, but coupled with the love of Thomas the Tank Engine at the moment it had turned into a huge adventure today.  It is only a 10 minute train journey, but it was filled with a whole conversation about where the trains live (which luckily is right by our station) and how the train that we were on was a diesel and not a steamie like Thomas and of course when we got off we had to say goodbye to the train. 

I had forgotten however that at our destination there is an old Great Western Engine on a line that isn't used so we then spent some time looking at the steamie (through a fence unfortunately) and saying hello to it and deciding that as it was dark green it definitely looked like Emily.

The shopping in the market was pretty uneventful and too noisy for A who clung to me for dear life.  She was also quite put out by the fact that as it was raining when we had finished inside so we couldn't go in search of Joan the fennel around the outdoor markets.  Sorry I feel I should explain, you see the other big favourite in our house is Mr Bloom's Nursery (which as far as children's TV goes I really quite like) and when we were doing our supermarket shopping earlier in the week we had to make sure that we found all of the characters, but unfortunately we couldn't find a fennel so I had said that we would try today if the weather stayed nice, which of course it didn't.

Then back at the train station it was decided that we had to sit and have our lunch on the bench closest to the steamie where we spent an hour talking about the trains, in between eating of course and looking at leaflets with steamies on.  A & D were equally as enthralled by their trip home on the train and spent most of it glued to the window

Now I know to most people this wouldn't be a very thrilling way to spend their morning, but I just never cease to be amazed by A & D's imaginations and how, at their age, they soak up information like a sponge.  Despite the chore that it started out as and the rain that we got this morning all four of us had a wonderful morning and it is simple mornings like this that I am so very grateful for.