Music Monday: Our Week in Music
I’d mentioned that since moving to Wales we’ve been taking the twins to a pre-Nursery group for 4 days a week. We were anxious about how they would adjust to being away from us for the first time in...
View ArticleFun & Walks in a Country Park
We went to one of our favourite places on Friday. We try to go there nearly every week, in all but the worst weather, & we never seem to tire of it. My ‘Silent Sunday‘ photo was from there. It’s a...
View ArticleFun & a First at the Farm
We crammed in so much over the Easter weekend that I’ve been struggling to keep up with posting about it! The plan was to go out somewhere great, all four of us, every day. On Friday it was the country...
View ArticleSaturday is Caption Day!
Got a witty, profound or just plain silly caption for this picture? Then leave it in the comments below! Then click on the little boy’s head here & you will be magically transported to the funsome...
View ArticleAn Active Weekend
I’m joining in with this week’s ‘The Gallery’ on Tara’s ‘Sticky Fingers’ blog, as well as Fiona’s ‘Country Kids at Coombe Mill’ blog-link. The Gallery’s theme is ‘The Weekend’: it was a long one, &...
View ArticleThank you, thank you: l’m here all week
Ellie had found a little orange self-inking stamp & was busy stamping herself & everyone around her with it. “It’s for being brave.” she said, as she stamped. We were getting ready to go to the...
View ArticleSaturday is Caption Day: The Dude
Got a caption for this? It can be witty, silly, profound – anything you like! Then just click the little boy’s head for more: Filed under: Captions, Dressing Up, Outdoor Play
View ArticleSaturday is Caption Day: A New Playground!
Got a caption for this? It can be witty, silly, profound – anything you like! Then just click the little boy’s head for more: Filed under: Imaginative Play, Outdoor Play
View ArticleSilent Sunday 21/7/13
Filed under: Growing up - fast, Let's Get Physical, Outdoor Play, Silent Sunday
View ArticleClimb Every Rope-Bridge
I was very proud on the weekend. On Saturday we went to a local fun farm. Inside it has a great indoor adventure playground, & nifty little racing cars; outside there are farm animals to feed,...
View ArticleThe Gallery: Play
This is part of the climbing area of our (new) local playground. It’s “the spinny thing”. The bars are off-centre, so you can hang on to them & use your own weight to spin yourself around its axis....
View ArticleTrike-Racing at a Dinosaur Park (yes, really)
It was the end of the day after our visit to the Dinosaur Park on Sunday. We’d given in to double-nagging & had stopped off at the play area. It was a trike racing track for 3- to 6-year-olds, a...
View ArticleUs and Them
I can’t help thinking of Syria, & especially of its children & the terrible suffering so many are enduring. Chemical weapon attacks on city suburbs. A school bombed with napalm. Horror almost...
View ArticleFlashback Friday: Ruins Revisited
We went to our country park on Saturday, & walked past the part I posted about in my (first) ‘Flashback Friday’ post, the ruins of the 12th-century Abbey. It’s sad to see that after all this time...
View ArticleSaturday is Caption Day: See-Sawing Siblings
So what’s going on here then? Captions please! Then click here for more: Filed under: Captions, Funnies, It's a Twin Thing, Outdoor Play
View ArticleThis really wasn’t my idea – but it was fun anyway
Today it rained, & has been quite cold. I was taking them to our favourite soft play place but when we arrived it was inexplicably closed, & not for the first time. Only this time there was a...
View ArticleA Taste of Spring!
What a strange day it was yesterday! For the first time in months, a) it wasn’t raining, b) there wasn’t much wind, c) it wasn’t too cold, & d) there was that strange stuff about that I remember...
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