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…
A little while ago I published Part One of ‘Our Top Ten things To Do In Bude’, promising that Part Two would follow in a couple of days time. Those couple of days have ended up turning into a couple of weeks – the summer holidays have been busier than I expected them to be so far…
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…
For one week a year in July, the Real Flower Petal Confetti Company throws open it’s gates to the public before the harvest begins. Golden wheat fields on one side; acres of colourful flowers on the other; an outdoor café with straw bales for tables; pretty bunting lazily twisting in the breeze… and I had no idea…
Time is a funny old thing isn’t it. All of the other months so far this year have absolutely whizzed by and yet July has felt like the longest month on record to me. I think it’s because we’ve all been on our knees with exhaustion, just willing it to be the end of the term so…
Every year towards the end of July, the girls and I make a ‘Summer Holiday Bucket List’ full of all the things we’d like to do during the six week break from school. I know better than to plan in too much detail (I’ve learnt from experience!) as the weather will inevitably get in the way of certain…
A few Sundays ago the weather forecast was warm and sunny, and, knowing how rare that can be in the British ‘summer’, we decided to make the most of our brand new National Trust family passes and explore somewhere new. We’re lucky enough to have quite a few National Trust properties within an hour or so from…
If you’re a regular reader of my blog you’ll know by now that we regularly visit Bude in North Cornwall. It’s long been a favourite place for my husband and I – we’ve both been going there since we were small children. Now that we have daughters of our own we wanted to continue our family story by taking…
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul” ~ John Muir One of our favourite local places to visit is Cannock Chase, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It stretches far and wide, from Milford at it’s northern tip, Cannock in the South, it’s eastern edge falling just shy of Rugeley,…