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Bank eld Buddies cra sessions
Akroyd Library, Bankfield Museum, Halifax
Go along and join in cra activities for under-fives. In this relaxed, friendly environment children can play, enjoy a story and learn more about the fascinating objects on display.
Free parking and ramped push chair access at the back of the Museum.
Sessions run from 10.30am- 11.15am. £2.00 per child. Booking is not required, please pay on the day.
Hot and cold drinks available to buy from reception.
This month’s sessions are being held on June 23 and 30 w i t h m o r e f u n t o b e h a d o n July 7, 14 and 21. museums.calderdale.gov.uk/ bank eld-buddies
The Tortoise and the Hare
Square Chapel Arts Theatre, Halifax, Sunday June 25, 1pm Join Tilly the Tortoise and Ha y the Hare as they go head to head at their school sports day in this hilarious and touching interactive adventure for the whole family.
Performances take place in the Red Brick Auditorium. Square Chapel is now in its new-look home, opposite Halifax Railway Station and ten minutes from the bus station in a spot next door to the soon to be opened Piece Hall. Food served from noon- 8pm.
The main entrance is via the copper building, next door
t o T h e P i e c e H a l l ’ s S o u t h g a t e entrance on Blackledge. Tickets: £8, www.squarechapel. co.uk
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There’sa
TV advert currently doing the rounds
that shows a series of mortified teenagers being ferried to school in their parents’ seriously uncool cars.
Cringing as their mums and dads embarrass them in front of their mates, all that changes when a dad driving a rather swish Volkswagen zooms
into view, his daughter beaming with smug pride alongside him.
Of course, owning the smartest set of wheels on the block is swi ly undone when he a empts a fist bump, to the groans and pitying sighs of his less than impressed girl.
As the dad of a teen, it is a scenario that rings painfully true.
My 11-year-old
lad is fine with
his dad singing
along in the car
and generally being a
bit da behind the wheel when whizzing from A to Z.
Not so for my 13-year- old.
For starters, Radio 2 is switched off the second he sets foot inside my rather dated Citroen Xsara Picasso, despite my protestations that
it actually plays “cool” bands he’s heard of like Kasabian and the Kaiser Chiefs.
Instead, he flicks the dial to Capital, a station which appears to have about three records and one presenter and then it’s a steady diet of, ahem, new music while I am taking him to wherever he needs to go.
Never mind, the music will form a nice backdrop as we have a good old father-son chinwag about s c h o o l , t h e n e w s , h i s mates.
Well, that’s if you
consider conversation
to be a series of grunts, u ered occasionally, his head instead buried in his phone so he can check what’s happening on Instagram, Snapchat or Oovoo (no, me neither).
When he hit 13, I told him he could have a Facebook account and
I went about se ing
it up for him, hoping that if I couldn’t talk to him in person, at least there was the chance of communicating within the digital world.
As I write this, he’s posted once in about four months and has made his views known to me on several occasions: “Facebook is for old people.”
As for our journeys, singing along to anything
is strictly off limits and there’s been
more than one occasion
where I’ve found myself turning into my own dad
and u ering the infamous
words: “Call this music? You
can’t even make out the words.”
Drop-offs are generally undertaken
at the far end of a car park, far from where he needs to be, lest his mates actually catch a glimpse of him climbing out of
a vehicle that doesn’t happen to be a Ferrari or Lamborghini (not that their dads have such cars either, of course).
I’ve now come to accept that our journeys will be conducted in
near silence, apart from the sounds of some
inane DJ informing me
of “a massive anthem coming up from the Chainsmokers next” and me scratching my head trying to understand what that actually means.
I’m looking forward to some time in 2022 when communications may
b e r e s u m e d - a s l o n g a s I’ve upgraded my car to a Porsche by then.
Na onal Railway Museum, York Currently boarding - rides on the miniature railway
Lotherton Hall, Leeds
Meet some feathered friends at the Aberford hall’s bird garden
Abbey House Museum, Leeds Take a trip back in time in the Victorian streets
Family Guy
by Darren Burke
When journeys with dad are totally uncool