Coco the reluctant clown!

Poor LL, we've discovered, has spent the entire weekend traipsing around in a pair of shoes that wouldn't look out of place in a circus ring!

BFS and I have just had our first night/weekend away together in just over a year - the first since CC's birth. We had headed down to London Town with a group from BFS's work. The weekend was good, but the highlight for our boys was getting a weekend at Gran's with the usual spoiling that comes as standard. We left pretty soon after the school run on Friday and left Gran armed with a pile on instructions to tide her over for the weekend (safe in the knowledge that most would be wittingly or unwittingly ignored at some point!) the biggest blunder had to come when she went to collect LL from nursery. She wrapped him up and asked him for his shoes, to which he dutifully handed over a pair (which, to give him his dues, were the same style as his) 3 sizes bigger than his feet. In fact they were bigger than his big brothers shoes. You'd think gran might have noticed that he went to nursery donned in a pair of snow boots that morning! She put them on and LL informed her that they were too big... now this is an understatement - the shoes were hanging off of his feet! You'd think that you'd maybe look for another pair, or perhaps even ask his teacher if they were the right ones? But No! (and this is where I take offence) instead she presumed that BFS and I would send him off wearing ridiculous shoes that he can barely walk in - and then....to make matters worse doesn't then look for a different pair when they get back to the house for him to wear over the weekend.

Just to compound it, as a treat the boys were taken through to Edinburgh to visit the Winter Wonderland fair which I'm sure under normal circumstances would have been great fun, but poor LL would have had to do more than his fair share of walking in sub zero temperatures in shoes with the air circulation equivalent to a pair of flip flops with them flip flopping as he attempted to keep up with the grown ups!

She could have called....

Rant over!

well almost! A note has to be made of the poor boy from nursery who was left with a pair of shoes which were as much use to him as a chocolate teapot!