Month: April 2017

Another Expensive Week First to occur is Emily’s Birthday which this year she’s sharing with our friends youngest Matthew at a local church hall. The entertainer does a great job of getting everyone up on the dancefloor at the appropriate time to keep the kids moving and enthralled. Once they’ve all run themselves ragged it’s…

Busy Cruisin’ Rachel, being the most thoughtful, organised and forward thinking person I may have ever met has been in touch with a local yachtsman who provides private cruises on his own boat to whatever level of expertise you like and, seeing none of us are any use on a boat, we opt for a…

Batteries Fully Recharged Like a lot of families in the UK we spend a lot of time throughout the year working hard to save up our money and annual leave for a family holiday somewhere (hopefully) warmer where our pasty skin can get a full dose of vitamin D. This year, we’ve been to Lanzarote…

The Man Van Man I’m not entirely sure who came up with this idea but given I want to do as much of the building work myself, or at least be involved with the bits out of my area of expertise, we have decided to trade in my trusty Totota Yaris in exchange for a…

Wray Scarecrow Festival North Yorkshire is a stunning place to visit and some of its little villages and towns can almost take you back in time. Not always in an architectural sense but into a feeling of what England could look like if we all just took a massive chill-pill and calmed the chuff down.…

Amendments We finally got our planning approval through in January 2016 and up until recently we were fairly happy with it but Donald has given us so many ideas and options to consider it’s left our heads spinning, so a few months back we decided to put in an amendment. The property doesn’t have any…