Last Saturday I was in a bit of a funk. We’d not really done much during the week, the girls were starting to get whingey and were spending far too long on their Nintendo DSs and Minecraft despite my best efforts, and I was desperate to get out of the house and have a really good, long walk. We…
Wanderlust: “a strong, innate desire to travel” I had the realisation recently that my husband and I approach holidays in completely opposite ways. After twelve years together you’d have thought I’d have picked up on this before now! At the end of July we had a wonderful week in Jersey with our three girls – exploring,…
This is part four of a series of blog posts documenting our holiday in Jersey in the Channel Islands. You can find part one, all about our lovely accommodation, here. Part two, which covers the first two days of our trip, is here. And Part 3 is here. WEDNESDAY After an epically long day and late night yesterday…
This is part three of a series of blog posts documenting our holiday in Jersey in the Channel Islands. You can find part one, all about our lovely accommodation, here. And part two, which covers the first two days of our trip, here. MONDAY As I’ve mentioned in my two previous posts, the garden at Woodland Barn…
This is part two of a series of blog posts documenting our holiday in Jersey in the Channel Islands. You can find part one here, which is all about our gorgeous accommodation – the wonderful Woodland Barn. We’d never been to Jersey before and I’d heard so many good things about it’s beautiful and varied scenery that…
July felt incredibly busy and I will freely admit that I heaved an enormous sigh of relief when school finished for the summer. The thing that kept me going throughout the never-ending tiredness and inability to switch off my brain was the knowledge that as soon as the term was over we’d be escaping for a week to visit somewhere we’ve…
I take hundreds of photos every month and even more when we’re away on holiday! While I’ll be sharing plenty of photos from our recent week away in Jersey over the next few weeks in a series of dedicated blog posts, lots of them won’t get shared with anyone, let alone online. And yet the moments in…
Having three children means that our house is constantly noisy. Giggles and laughter, bickering and shouting, the TV, impromptu Sunday morning kitchen discos… it’s rarely quiet. (I tried to upload a video that the husband took of me dancing with the girls but it refused to load. Probably a good thing!) And then when the girls…
This is Part 2 of a blog about our day trip to Stratford-Upon-Avon. You can find Part 1 here. Once our tummies were full of lunch and ice cream from The Food of Love café, we headed to the other side of the street to Shakespeare’s Birthplace. There was a short queue to get in…
A year ago my wonderful best friend and her husband offered to drive all the way up to Staffordshire from Southampton to come and stay at our house overnight so my husband and I could go away for the weekend on our own to celebrate a year of marriage. We jumped at the chance – we…