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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During our Easter holiday break in the Peak District, we were eager to explore a part of the country that we knew little about. We had planned a few days out in the area and one of our adventures took us to the Crewe Heritage Centre. Crewe Heritage Centre is a railway museum located right next to the West Coast Main Line junction to Chester. It is run entirely by volunteers and…
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Over the summer last year, we found ourselves in London and decided to explore somewhere that neither Dave or I could remember ever going to before aside from school visits so many years ago. It’s always nice to explore somewhere new as a family so we planned our day out in Greenwich. There are so many things to do in London – and Greenwich specifically – that we decided to…
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I’ve sat down to write this post just a couple of days before Siblings day which is unheard of for me. usually I have a draft post ready, filling it with photos as the month works its way round but this time I had no draft ready at all. This month has gone so quickly and we have been so busy that it has felt like we’ve been adding extra…
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Last week Little Man turned six and to celebrate his birthday Marwell Zoo, near Winchester in Hampshire, invited us to visit to experience the Brickosaurs tour – an interactive expedition that has been added to the zoo until September 2019. It took a specialist team 969 days and more than two million bricks of Lego to create the attractions so we couldn’t wait to see what it had in store.…
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Since becoming parents we have tried to give the children as healthy and nutritious meals as possible whilst letting them have treats like pudding on some days and really a good balance in their diet. I’ve realised that although the children are fantastic at eating fruit and vegetables there are some weeks where they don’t get enough protein in their diet so I’ve been looking at ways to increase the…
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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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