Well it’s Bank Holiday Monday so it had to rain right? I’m still thinking how lucky we were with the summery weather a few weeks ago and the gardens probably need some rain. We had planned to walk from my inlaws house to Forty…
Back in the February half-term when we went to stay up in Yorkshire, we hopped over the county border over to Cumbria for a day and visited The World of Beatrix Potter in Bowness-on-Windermere. I’d always wanted to go there when I was a…
Forty Hall Easter Events Over the Easter weekend we did not one, but Easter events at Forty Hall, our local stately home. Mad Hatter’s Arty Party The Mad Hatter’s Arty Party was the first event. Run by the Funky Festival Company, this was an Alice in…
I’ve written about Capel Manor Gardens a few times. It’s one of the loveliest days out to be had in our neck of the woods and it’s 5 year old Seren’s “happy place”. We renewed our family membership last week and friends joined us…
I feel like we’ve well and truly started summer over the last few days! Picnics, building sandcastles, BBQs, paddling pool, suncream, sunhats and sandals on! Which all feels a bit strange given we haven’t even had Easter yet. Yesterday, we popped to the…
A few weeks ago, like most of the UK blogging / Instagram community it would seem, we went to a lavender farm to pick lavender and try to take some photos of the kids. We went to our nearest spot, Hitchin Lavender in…
I can’t think of a better way of spending a gorgeously, sunny March Sunday than getting out in the sunshine and seeing signs of spring in abundance. We spent yesterday lunchtime (Mother’s Day, happy belated Mother’s Day by the way!) at Forty Hall…
Now we’re back from our half-term break, I’ve been thinking about our next holiday, probably in the summer, and also plotting lots of days out and family time! Here is my top 20 lists of places for days out in and around London…
We managed to get away to for a little holiday last week. We don’t go away much but when half-term meets your big birthday (4-0 eeeeeek) then it would be rude not to? I quite fancied cosying up with the family, a lovely bath…
As usual with January, I’m not taking many photos on these dark, dingy days but did manage to get my camera out last weekend. We were supposed to be going on a bit of an adventure but it took us SO LONG to get…
Back in November we reviewed the children’s activities inside stately home Forty Hall, for a local magazine. You can read the full article here but I also wanted to cover the review on my blog to reach others. Despite visiting Forty Hall often…
I’m pretty excited about 2017 already. I mean we’re still in holiday lull mode here (until tomorrow!) and 4 days in I can’t say it’s been life changing yet … BUT plans are afoot for quite a big year and here’s why: 1.…
Whilst the big ones (Andy and I) would have been very happy with a couple of pyjama days last week – the little ones need to be exercised at least once a day. We headed out to some local places we don’t get to…
There’s an oft told saying that when it comes to parenting little ones – the hours are long (though the hours asleep are never long enough) but the years are short. 2016 has flown by again, time has passed so quickly in a…
We went to see Santa at Springtime Nurseries last week after school. Springtime is a local garden centre that completely becomes a Christmas destination at this time of year with fabulous displays, reindeer, huts selling mulled wine and hot chocolate, a snow globe, a…