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
I’ve been enjoying reading about Hannah from Mum’s Days’ castle challenge this year after she set herself a challenge to visit all 45 castles in Northumberland. I love history and have to admit to having a few moments of castle envy as there aren’t very many to visit near where I live. So when we… Read More
I am very fortunate in that my in-laws live just over a mile away from us and so get to see the girls very frequently. Jessica and Sophie both love spending time with their Grandma and Grandad and now that the warmer weather is starting to arrive, they can also get to spend time exploring… Read More
I love joining in with Country Kids each week if I can and one of the things it has inspired me to do is to look for different outdoor spaces to explore. So when a university friend asked me if I wanted to catch up with her in Marlow, I did a quick search for… Read More
Last year we enjoyed several trips to Legoland before it closed for the winter. Today it reopened for the 2015 season and Jessica was very excited this morning when I told her we would be going to Legoland for the day and was looking forward to seeing the pirates again. Hubby bought me an annual… Read More
The morning sunshine was too tempting to resist and having dropped Jessica off at preschool, Sophie and I headed for the park instead of going straight home again as we usually do. It was the first time that I had taken Sophie to the park on her own; the first time I had been to… Read More
Another sunny winter afternoon and time to find another local outdoor space to go and explore. This time we were off to Langley Park, a local country park, which is somewhere we’ve visited once before whilst I was pregnant with Sophie. We had a longer walk that day to the lake and back, but on… Read More