A couple of weekends ago, on one of our regular-as-clockwork Saturday morning trips to the local library to make sure that Ella (our resident bookworm) was stocked up with enough books to last her for the whole week, I spotted a small display near the self check-out machines. Whilst the girls were choosing their books I wandered…
January is a funny old month. It’s deep midwinter, the fun and excitement of Christmas is over and the promise of Spring is still a little too far away to feel tangible. It’s dark and grey and cold and, if you’re anything like me, it can be hard to summon up to motivation to do…
Chrimbo Limbo. Twixmas. Whatever you call it, the week between Christmas and New Year is always a bit odd. No-one is ever quite sure what day it is; there are late nights and even (*gasp*) lie-ins for the girls (this really does feel like a bit of a Christmas miracle – they’re so worn out from the…
The husband working in the industry he does means that Christmas Eve is one of the busiest days/evenings of the year for him and so he always works a super-long day – starting in the morning, spending most of the day on his feet and not getting home until the early hours of Christmas Day. It means it’s…
As I write this, the last of my summer blog posts, we are already three-quarters of the way through September. I’m really not quite sure how that happened. For a start, the weather has been absolutely lovely over the last few weeks (with the occasional exception of the odd rainy day or chilly morning) and so…
One Sunday a few weeks ago we were at a bit of a loss as to what to do. We’d exhausted pretty much everything on our Summer Bucket List (which was relatively short anyway as I wanted a slower, more simple summer than the usual mad-busy craziness that I normally create by packing as much…
This is Part Two of a rather lovely and unplanned afternoon spent at the Canalside Farm, Shop and Cafe in Great Haywood. You can find Part One, with lots of photos from our walk by the canal, here. Once we’d finished our walk we headed back to where we began to search out a snack – we’d built up…
Absolutely ages ago I had a cuppa with a friend I hadn’t seen in a long time. Usually we meet at one of our homes but on this occasion we fancied a change and decided to go out. She suggested the Canalside Cafe in Great Haywood, about 15-20 minutes away from where I live. I’d…