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…
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…
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…