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Flashback 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...
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An Evening at the Beach
Last Sunday morning we had a split: Jake wanted to go to soft-play, Ellie wanted to go to the beach. It was meant to be a cloudy morning & a sunnier afternoon, & the Mummy was feeling a bit...
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This 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...
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A Very Christmassy Adventure
We had a great day out on Saturday, & a rare family foray outside! This autumn we’ve all been taking turns catching one lurgi or another; there’s hardly been a time when at least 1 of the twins...
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Flashback Friday: A Sunny Medieval Fair!
I always seem to have many more posts that I’d like to write than I have time or energy for. I often remember great things we’ve done, a lot of the time prompted by looking back at old photos, &...
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Flashback Friday: In the Deep, Dark, Dank Caves
Flashback Friday: perfect for those posts that you meant to write at the time but just didn’t manage to! I have rather a lot of those… Back in August we had a great day out at a ‘Dinosaur Park’. It’s...
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Saturday is Caption Day: The Tractor
What’s going on ‘ere then? Is Jake training to be a motor mechanic? Or just helpfully pointing out why the tractor won’t move? Something else entirely? I’d love to see what you can come up: captions...
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Blackberries
For the first 2 years of your lives we all lived together in our big house in the Midlands. The “big old house”, with the big old garden. You don’t remember it. I do. I remember how I was your...
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A 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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Outdoor Messy Play!
It’s the best place for it, in my experience. ‘Outdoors’, that is. The clue’s in the name: Messy Play. It’s messy! It all started with an old tin of Smash* I found in the kitchen cupboard. It was...
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Jump on it!
Who remembers space hoppers?! (It’s OK; you don’t have to admit it if you don’t want to.) The good news for those of us who do – whether we’ll admit it or not – is that they seem to be making a...
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