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…
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…
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…
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,…
In exactly three months time I’ll be on a plane somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, on my way to Denver, Colorado. Back in January I entered a competition to win a space at Leap Retreat, an intimate workshop for just ten women, hosted by Sarah Cornish of My Four Hens Photography, who’s incredible family photography…
Sundays are pretty sacred in our house. It’s the only day of the week where all of us are together and so we try to keep them for day trips and adventures and exploring new places. Sometimes things get in the way of those adventures – lovely things like family or friends coming to visit, or a birthday party…
Hi, guys! This is the second part of my blog posts about our week-long holiday in Bude. ENJOY!!! Tuesday Tuesday was a really busy day. In the morning, we decided to go for a walk to see the shipwreck in Northcott Bay. When we got there, Mummy had misplaced the tide times and it was…
May has seemed like a really busy month and yet it feels like we haven’t really ‘done’ very much. Looking back through my diary and my camera roll it’s mainly been commitments at the girls’ school, work-related stuff and birthdays that have been keeping us occupied. As a result I realised that we’ve not actually had any adventures out and…