I sit writing this in a hotel room in Denver, Colorado. It’s Friday morning here, though if you’re reading this back home in England it’ll already be the afternoon. It still doesn’t quite feel real, even though I spent the whole of yesterday – 19 hours in total – travelling to get here, leaving the house at…
It feels strange to be writing about our adventures at Chester Zoo now, considering that we’re well over half way through September already. After all, it was back at the start of August that we visited for the day. I almost decided not to bother and then several things made me change my mind: we had such…
For the first three weeks of the summer holidays I had no car. Anyone who knows me knows that I love to walk everywhere anyway, so it didn’t bother me too much. However, with three daughters who had a list of adventures they wanted to go on, it did make things more than a little…
What a summer! I don’t know about you but I’m exhausted (in the best kind of way!). It’s been full on and intense and challenging and brilliant fun all at the same time. The girls go back to school in two days time so we’ve been spending time looking at our Summer Bucket List this morning and…
We are very lucky to have several National Trust properties within about an hour of where we live, which is partly why we decided to invest in an annual pass – there are so many places nearby that we want to explore that it seemed silly not to really. The closest one to us (literally…
I take hundreds of photos every month, and most of them don’t get shared with anyone, let alone online. And yet the moments in time that those photos capture are just as important a part of our story as the other images that I do choose to share. I created this blog as a way…
We’re currently coming to the end of Week Five of the summer holidays and it’s certainly been a month to remember for all sorts of reasons. Here are all the little things I’ve been loving lately throughout August… READ I’ve not read very much this month at all. We’ve either been out and about having fun or I’ve…
I have written several times before about how much we love Trentham Gardens – it seems that no matter how many times we visit there is always somewhere new to explore and something new to discover. We spent the afternoon there one sunny Saturday near the beginning of the summer holidays, making the most of the…
I’ve been blogging for about 18 months now and, whilst I’ve not earned a single penny for my work (yet), I have been able to create some fun experiences for my girls to take part in. They may not pay the bills but they are teaching my daughters many valuable lessons: to say “yes” to having adventures; to grab opportunities with both hands; to…
Just before the summer holidays started, the lovely team at Lucky Gecko sent the girls some of their Discovery Boxes to review. They arrived on a busy mid-week morning amidst a flurry of end-of-term excitement – all three girls were so surprised to have had parcels delivered that were actually addressed to them that they wanted…