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Category Archives: Holidays

Why we love holidays at Coombe Mill

12/08/202111/08/2021
Sophie feeding the goats at Coombe Mill

We have visited Coombe Mill in Cornwall a few times now for family holidays and love it there. Our previous stays have been over Christmas but after Covid scuppered our Christmas break last year, we ended up rebooking for the summer instead. Coombe Mill is a fabulous place for a family holiday both in the… Read More

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Our second Christmas at Coombe Mill

02/01/202003/01/2020
Sophie exploring the fairy garden at Coombe Mill

Christmas is a tough time for us since Jessica died and we haven’t yet been able to face doing Christmas at home the way we used to. Instead, we headed to Cornwall to spend our second Christmas without Jessica at Coombe Mill. Last year, it was just the four of us, but this year Grandma… Read More

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Christmas at Coombe Mill

10/01/201910/01/2019
The children on the festive Coombe Mill train

Coombe Mill in Cornwall has been on my holiday wish list for a few years now – ever since I first started joining in with the Country Kids linky. It always sounded so amazing in Fiona’s blog posts and I thought my girls would love it there. Sadly we never did get to take Jessica,… Read More

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Ten things we loved about our Butlins holiday

22/06/201623/06/2016

Butlins is a place that is full of happy memories for me – from various days out and holidays there when I was a child, to hen weekends and trips to Spring Harvest as an adult and then seeing it again through my nieces’ eyes.  We spent our last family holiday as a trio at… Read More

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The Paralympic Gold Postbox Challenge

10/04/201512/05/2017

During the London Olympics back in August 2012, Royal Mail announced that each gold medal winner would have a postbox painted gold in his or her home town. At the time, we didn’t really take much notice of this until a photo appeared on Facebook of Jessica’s godfather Bryan standing next to a gold postbox… Read More

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Top tips for enjoying road trips with small children

02/04/201504/07/2017
Jessica in the back of the car wearing a towel on her head

Holidays for us often involve going on a road trip. We enjoy travelling from place to place and visiting lots of different areas, often spending only one or two nights somewhere before moving on to the next place. Thankfully the girls are still quite tolerant of all the travelling about. I suspect that may change… Read More

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Word of the Week – Adventures

29/08/2014

Hubby has had a few days off work this week and so we’ve been enjoying being away on a little holiday together and having some I’ll be blogging more about what we’ve been up to over the last few days later on, but we’ve been having lots of fun travelling around and hunting for gold… Read More

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I'm Louise, mummy of three - Jessica, forever six, who was born with half a heart and lives on in mine; and heart-healthy Sophie (born 2013) and Thomas (born 2018). I blog about living with grief after child loss, crafts, days out and the little moments of family life.

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