Woo-woo!

I had better luck with the car-free thing this week. Today, TR and I took a trip on the train to Guildford, for a spot of clothes shopping. TR is very much into trains, or 'woo-woos', so I thought the train trip might be a real treat for him. He enjoyed waiting on the platform and waving to any departing trains, but he found the actual ride quite alarming, bless him. After a litany of 'Oh dear', 'Oh no' and 'requests to go 'Back!' he asked to sit on my 'lack' [lap] and made sure I had both 'hand' firmly around his middle. Only then was he, if not actually happy about the train ride, suffiently relaxed to look out of the window for tractors and other points of interest.

Poor TR - that's the second time he's been disappointed by modes of transport. The other great loves of his life are 'rac-racs' [tractors] so I recently took him on a tractor and trailer ride, at Longdown Activity Farm. He was very excited about this, right up until the point where the driver bounced us all over a very bumpy field. TR cried the whole way round!

Whilst in Guildford, I bought myself a sandwich for lunch. It was made by Foo.Go: a darned silly name, but a rather nice sandwich. I had salmon with lemon mayonnaise. I mention it here because it came in packaging that the manufacturers assured me was fully biodegradeable and compostable. I confess I bought it because it looked tasty, rather than because of it's eco-credentials, but, it still seemed worth a mention.

The Mouse has also been doing her bit for the planet. This week is 'Walk to School Week' and her school is taking part in the 'Golden Boot Challenge'. We usually walk to school anyway, although I did rather regret that last Thursday morning, when we did so in a torrential downpour. Despite a rain coat and umbrella, the Mouse was soaked to the skin by the time we arrived at school and it took me several days to dry-out TR's buggy. Tomorrow's weather forecast doesn't look great, so we might not feel quite so virtuous by then. We'll see!