Having managed to find all 50 Shaun the Sheep sculptures when they were in London, we couldn’t resist the challenge to complete the set and find the ones in Bristol too. The first weekend after they arrived in Bristol, we headed off to try and find as many as we could. There are 70 different… Read More
With the local recreational ground being just a few minutes’ walk from our house, it is impossible to miss when Party in the Park is on in the summer. Our road is full of parked cars and we can hear the music from the stage from inside the house (lovely during the day when we… Read More
There are several fundraising events for charities close to our heart that we try to attend every year and the Charlie Jones Foundation Family Fun Day is one of them. It’s a charity that was set up by heart parents Donna and Dean Jones after the death of their 5-month old baby Charlie from hypoplastic… Read More
“Look, Mummy! I’m the winner!” The look of pure joy and delight on my daughter’s face as she crossed the finish line last was so beautiful to see. For her, sports day was all about taking part – not coming first, but just being there with her friends and joining in. For me, it… Read More
When we first heard about the Shaun in the City trail coming to London, shortly after completing our Book Bench challenge, we knew that this was a challenge we wanted to take on. 50 different Shaun the Sheep sculptures placed around central London to find. We were away on holiday hunting gold postboxes when the… Read More
When we were compiling our list of gold postboxes to visit around the country as part of our Olympic and Paralympic gold postbox challenge, we also discovered that two sets of lock controls had been painted gold in celebration of the gold medals won by British rowers. One sunny afternoon, we decided to head off… Read More
I used to visit Chiltern Open Air Museum fairly often before having my children as it was a lovely place just to go for a walk even without looking around the various historic buildings there. Since Jessica’s arrival though, we’d only been once, when I took my twin sister and her children there for a… Read More