Reasons to be Cheerful: Family, Friends and Fun #R2BC

Now we are in November I have handed the hostess mantle back to the founder Michelle. We will be in good hands until I am in charge again for December! Its been a pretty good week for me from the tail end of half term and then some glorious weather. Here are some of the things that had made me cheerful:
1) Catching up with friends
One of my school friends was up north with her family for the holidays and we enjoyed spending time with them and showing them our castle:

One of my single parent friends is also in the area for a break and we met up for coffee and cake at Yard 46. 

2) Time with my girl

We had a delightful day trip to Lancaster to spend birthday money and try out a vegetarian restaurant:

Such a pleasure to spend a laid back day with her. Then last night we were at the Brewery as a puppetry project she worked on had a showing for the parents. She had done an amazing job!

3) Time with my boy

Saturday was all about running together with parkrun in the morning and a Fright Run in the evening (Thanks to James Kirkby for the photo):

4) Time with wider family 
It was lovely to go to the zoo with my parents at the weekend. This gave us all many reasons to be cheerful including quite some time watching these cuties:

5) Time with my mum

We made the most of an opportunity this week to go out for lunch and tried out the 2 Sisters' Cafe in Kendal:

6) Halloween fun

Our little street was buzzing for Halloween with lots of very polite ghosts, ghouls and witches. I got quite a few compliments for the pumpkin I carved using a template I found online too:

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