As we left Lacock on a recent adventure, Daddy P mentioned a flight of locks that we’d all seen on an engineering programme recently was probably near by. After a quick consultation with Google it appeared that we were only twenty minutes away, so we decided to have a little… Continue reading »
It’s sometimes difficult to get motivated to leave the house at this time of year. But when the weather forecast tells me that it’s going to be dry and relatively mild, then I’m all for putting a plan in place and getting outdoors. As is often the case, my National… Continue reading »
Little did I know in 2013 that my son would still be obsessed with steam railways and locomotives all these years later. Towards the end of last year we decided to revisit somewhere we’d first explored when my son was just over three years old. He couldn’t really remember our… Continue reading »
It has to be over 25 years since I last visited Avebury in Wiltshire. Monkey’s godmum lives not too far away, and when we’d meet up earlier in the year, she’d suggested it as a meet up venue for us and the kids. A date was set in the diary… Continue reading »
I’ve been meaning to try geo caching for ages and every time I read Fun as a Gran‘s weekly 365 post I kick myself again for still not having tried it. We were meeting up with a monkey’s god mum and her a daughter a few weeks ago and the… Continue reading »
It’s funny when you visit somewhere you’ve been before, go to look at the blog post, and realise your previous visit was pre-blog! This happened following our recent visit to Studley Grange near Swindon. We’d enjoyed our previous visit there, and arranged to meet an old friend and her little… Continue reading »