Day out at Banbury Canal Day – 10th Birthday
A visit to enjoy Banbury Canal Day, a weekend event celebrating the canals with canal boats, heritage, food and crafts for all the family.
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A visit to enjoy Banbury Canal Day, a weekend event celebrating the canals with canal boats, heritage, food and crafts for all the family.

I’m expecting to lose readers (‘please don’t go, don’t goooooo, don’t go away’….in the words of a dubious 90s song) on this post, but we live in the countryside and such activities take part around us every Autumn and Winter. This…

We visited Warwick Castle on a day that Mike the Knight was visiting. Plenty of castle and knights to see

I’ve been hearing for a while about how all the blackberries are out and ripe for the picking, but had been put off because the fields where I know there are usually blackberries still had our cows and bullocks in….

A walk at Grimsbury Reservoir Banbury, enjoying the sailing boats.

Family day out at Moreton-in-Marsh show, Gloucestershire.

A toddler cycle and visit to Longford Park Stretford, exploring what’s there.

Play time on Oxford Beach, a temporary summer installation by the castle.

A visit to Spiceball park playgrounds and Banbury food fayre with a toddler

I love fayres and shows (as you might have guessed from various posts over the last few weeks), and there’s more still to come over the remainder of the summer. Last weekend was Brailes Show which is only down the…

Enjoying the riverside at Stratford-upon-Avon with a toddler, swans, boats, and locks