Month: January 2021

Emily’s Charity Book Sale Each night, we try to encourage the kids to read something for at least 10 minutes before they go to sleep. Adam is a proper bookwork and routinely runs out of books which, pre-covid we would have donated and replaced at the local Book Cycle. Not being able to do that…

Mud, Mud and more Mud We’re off into the woods again to get some fresh air and despite all being wrapped up with our walking boots on, it isn’t long before we realise this probably wasn’t the best choice of route. Once the mud gets into the grooves of our boots, it decides to stay…

Upcycling – Lockdown Style Sitting in the house all day, staring at the same four walls, having the same conversations about how little we have in the calendar has taken its toll on us all. We have so little going on we’ve started to get excited about the Asda delivery, which gives you some idea…

Time to scoot It’s finally stopped raining for an hour so we’ve packed the kids into the car with their scooters for a quick trip to Mesnes Park. There are plenty of flat bits for them to scoot around on and as we arrive it looks fairly quiet. We’ve been trying to decide where to…

Ice Ice.. Maybe Now we’ve seen the back of 2020 and we enter into another lockdown the nation is once again holding it’s breath (..literally) to see if this time around, it will be enough to bring the infection rates down. The schools are looking to re-open but we’ve taken the decision to keep our…

Happy New Year Everyone Well, through a mixture of extreme caution, a fair amount of agoraphobia and good luck we’ve made it through 2020. Something which looking back, is no mean feat! Although we all seem to know someone who has been struck down with Covid-19 or suffered as a result of the pressure’s it’s…