Welcome back to another week of the Ordinary Moments. If you haven’t joined in before this is a weekly linky that launches every Sunday morning and is open until midnight on the following Saturday. It’s a linky that celebrates any ordinary moments in your life – or the not so ordinary some weeks too. Basically – anything goes. I’ll be sharing and commenting on the posts that are linked up during the…
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On a recent weekend in Dorset we drove to the coast to visit Durdle Door, somewhere I have always wanted to see for myself. We were arriving at about 11am and I hoped this wouldn’t be too late to avoid the crowds. We parked in the Durdle Door car park which was huge and had toilet blocks and plenty of refreshment stands as well as being next door to a…
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When we went to Puy Du Fou we got an earlier flight so we could venture into Nantes and see a little of the area. I hadn’t even heard of Nantes France before our trip was booked and so we had no expectations of what the city would be like. We parked easily in the cathedral car park in the city centre and started walking. We didn’t realise until after…
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Last weekend we were invited to spend a couple of nights at the family friendly Knoll House Hotel in Studland on the Dorset coast. It’s a part of the country we haven’t visited before and we couldn’t wait to experience Dorset for the first time. Location Knoll House Hotel is a real coastal retreat, situated just a couple of minutes walk from Knoll Beach on Studland Bay. The beach is…
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One thing we really wanted to do when we booked to go to Mauritius was see dolphins in the wild. Dolphins spend time off the coast of Mauritius at various times of the year so we researched boat trips to see them for ourselves. We were recommended Adrien’s Dream and and booked their Sunrise Crystal Dream excursion for one of our first days in Mauritius. The excursion started at Flic…
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Welcome back to another week of Living Arrows – and thanks to everyone who linked up last week. I love this project and it’s so nice getting to know the families that participate in Living Arrows each week and this year it looks like a really lovely mix of old and new faces. If you haven’t joined in with Living Arrows before it’s is about celebrating childhood. The project originally…
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I completely forgot that today was Siblings day until I saw Colette’s post pop up on my Facebook feed. I’ve taken part in Siblings since before Little Man could walk so I’d feel terrible if I missed one – I love documenting the children’s relationship as they grow. This month has been a great month for LP and Little Man. When I wrote August’s Siblings post we had just come…
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