Tag: places we like
That exciting day 🙂
Began with a little more excitement that I’d had planned, when the phone rang and it was WF (will just have to borrow that for now) saying that she’d heard on the radio that the road was blocked so there was no point in setting out just yet. Bother. There isn’t really another way around,…
And an entertaining evening
But before we get there, details of the shopping spree I undertook this afternoon 🙂 Courtesy of the book ppl, I ordered Usborne Internet-Linked French for Beginners with CD, French club, Hide and Speak French (Hide & Speak) (which comes with a collection of activity books, looks a bit young, but Small does like activity…
Because we should blog the bad with the good…
The day started with us overhearing a very convoluted game the children were playing downstairs (sleeping in the loft room means all noise comes up through the open hatch and as the children are not really capable of quiet, we get to hear everything they are up to). Anyway, as it became apparent that Small…
Harry Potter and swimming.
Despite heckling and all the rest of it, I did go to bed positively early last night. I then laid there for hours listening to a computer rebooting itself with monotonous regularity and eventually got disturbed by Tim coming to bed and shutting it down. I then got up at 7 o’clock this morning. I’ll…
A weekend.
Yesterday didn’t feel like much of a Saturday. Knowing that my assignment was due in but not finished, I set the alarm (shock, horrors, I hate having the alarm go off on a weekend). I got up and got on, and texted to find out what time I was due at school for the meeting,…
Family kind of weekend.
We had a full timetable of events this weekend, it’s my sister’s birthday tomorrow, so yesterday we all met up for a family meal at a curry house in Bil’s village. It was quite a subdued event, I think it was our first normal event without Katrin iyswim, and I can’t have been the only…
weekend away, and amphibians galore.
I can’t remember Friday day – I know that I got up early enough to shove camping stuff into the car, and then I went to work, but I can’t actually remember work apart from continuously looking at my phone to find out whether it was time to go yet. Tim took the kids out…
Every park needs a pirate.
So we provided one. He wasn’t this sad throughout the whole day, this was because of the sticks in the ground – they were for rounders, but he felt it was deeply wrong to shove things into the ground, and I had to remonstrate to get him to leave them there. On some levels, he’s…
Sutton Scarsdale and Bolsover Castle
Two EH sites in one day! Sutton Scarsdale Hall which is just to the south of us seemed like a good plan. Lovely setting, but not really much for the small people there. From my point of view too, it was just another pile of stately rubble, surrounded by grass. One thing about Sutton…
Roche Abbey
Today we went to Roche Abbey We played hide and seek Admired the spots on a ladybird Threw Pooh sticks And waited for them to reappear … and Small has learnt to play with the stream… 🙂