Tag: Kentwell
September goals – blog/business, family, me.
As part of blogtember, today Hannah, Katie and I are all doing our September goals post. In the future, I hope that my monthly post will also be a recap of how I’ve gone on with the month before, but I’ve promised that sort of thing in the past and failed dismally, so no promises.…
Summer snippets part 2 – all about Joan
This is Joan. (With thanks to Mike and Allison for the picture. ) I’ve been Joan twice this summer. It’s peculiar – in the run up to Kentwell I do a lot of faffing and panicking, then there’s the actually getting there and putting up tents and then I just am. Life is both simpler…
Summer snippets part one
Yes, I know I said yesterday that I was going to review a book today, but I kind of haven’t quite finished it yet. Sorry. I’m not quite sure what I’ve done with today, but it’s gone out from under me. So instead, I thought I’d do you a bumper snippets edition to recap on…
Getting back on the (blogging) horse with a 30 day challenge – welcome to Blogtember!
It’s been a bit quiet around here hasn’t it? Part of that is because we’ve been away at Kentwell – even my instagram went quiet then. But I’ve also lost my way here a little, again, which happens from time to time. To try to persuade me to get my words and posts flowing, I’m…
What I wish I knew before my first camping trip with kids – by Kirsty from Get Kids Outside
It’s not often I host non book related guest posts on this blog, but I think actually it might be a nice way to introduce my readers to some of my blogging friends – and Kirsty is someone I’ve known since before I started to blog. Yes, we really do go back *that* far. We’ve…
New tent.
Ebay bargain, exact tent we’ve been looking for. Yes, it’s another Vango 🙂 Smallest is very excited. Most of her camping experiences (that she remembers anyway) have been Kentwell related, and she’s hoping that we might manage to fit in some ordinary camping as well. I confess I’m a bit inspired too. Dreaming of adventures…
(Not) back to school – home education planning with The Range.
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #CollectiveBias August. Hot days, but cool evenings, time for another camping holiday, and suddenly, all the shops including the Range are full of back to school displays, and parents are wondering where the summer went and how long…
What's your X Moment?
Parenting, or indeed life, is full of blink and you’ll miss it moments. Once upon a time, that was what happened, if you weren’t there, you weren’t looking, you lost your chance. Then came cameras, Polaroids, digital cameras, and now most of us have that powerful camera in our pocket in the form of our…
The Inventory: Iron Fist by Andy Briggs (review with giveaway)
When Big was around 12 or 13 she read pretty much constantly, often books I was interested in – we’d rush to be first at a new YA, and wait impatiently for the other to finish so that we could discuss it. Small is a different kettle of fish. Although he is an extremely competent…
Little moments of happy
We visited Kentwell Hall. We saw flowers and baby animals and Tudors and a rainbow. Somewhere during the day I found a few moments of happy. A boy in a puddle. A peacock under a tree. A few moments of a day. A starting place at least. And tomorrow, as they say, is…
