We had a couple of days earlier this week going to visit Nanny and had an afternoon out visiting Keydell Nurseries near where Nanny lives. Each year, Keydell’s has a Christmas shop and their Christmas displays are very popular with visitors. We decided to take the girls so that they could enjoy a taste of… Read More
With Sophie suddenly becoming so much more confident on her feet, this week has seen more opportunity for her to enjoy Our milestone moment of the week was Sophie being able to walk to one of our regular toddler groups for the first time – she was carried for some of the way but did… Read More
Over the last few years, my mother-in-law has given me spa vouchers for my birthday. They were a very welcome treat before I had children and now they’re even more gratefully received. This year’s birthday present was a spa retreat for two at Stoke Park and so hubby and I left the girls with Grandma… Read More
This week has been a very busy one and has been very I’ve been busy putting together a booklet for the Remembrance Sunday service at church for my mother-in-law who has been researching all of the men from our church (or more accurately the churches which eventually joined together to become the church we are… Read More
With the autumn weather looking a little brighter one morning this week, we decided it would be a good opportunity to visit one of the parks near us to go and feed the ducks. We’ve only been to this particular park once before, several months ago and Jessica was quite taken by the numbered signs… Read More
Having enjoyed two previous treasure trails around Wantage and Chalfont St Peter, I thought we’d try another in Petersfield, the town where I grew up. This trail was a Spy Trail – the answers to each of the clues would give us one or two letters to cross off a grid and lead us to… Read More
Our fourth and final book bench trail was the Bloomsbury trail. With just 15 benches left to find, we were determined to finish off our summer Book Bench challenge. Our trail started at St George’s Square, which was a burial ground back in Georgian times (one of Oliver Cromwell’s granddaughters is interred there). It was… Read More