LEGOLAND Windsor was very much something we had planned to do during the summer holidays as a treat for the girls. (Well, I say the girls. It was most definitely a treat for the husband too who is the biggest kid I know and was desperate to see the Lego Star Wars stuff!). His days off from work…
“We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated out of our souls. Churched out. Spanked out. Washed out and…
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…
As you may have figured out by now if you are a regular reader of this blog, we’re big fans of ice cream! When we are away on holiday, it’s a family tradition of ours to eat an ice cream every day. Plus we’ve had our fair share over the summer holidays whilst we’ve been…
A couple of weeks ago my best friend and her husband came to stay with us for the weekend. It had been over a year since we last saw them and we’d been trying to arrange it for months and months and months. They live three hours away in Southampton, she is very close to completing her PhD and her husband…
Well, it’s taken me almost a month to write it all up (because, you know, life and summer holidays and children and working), but here is the fifth and final part in my series of blog posts all about our trip to Jersey back at the start of the summer holidays in July. You can find…
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…