Forever blowing bubbles
I’ve loved seeing all the bubble photos and play over the last few weeks, and fancied getting the bubbles out at home. Obviously if your toddler goes to any birthday party, then you’re bound to have a bottle of bubbles…
Adventures on the farm

I’ve loved seeing all the bubble photos and play over the last few weeks, and fancied getting the bubbles out at home. Obviously if your toddler goes to any birthday party, then you’re bound to have a bottle of bubbles…

I’m not a gardener. In fact I’m not even interested in really trying to garden. But I would quite like a nice garden that looks like a garden rather than a paddock. At the moment ours is a great place…

I think we’re getting to the end of the amazing weather before the rain turns up in readiness for the bank holiday weekend, but we managed to get quite a bit of outdoor time at the weekend. N doesn’t seem…

We’re so lucky being on the farm, as it means that even if we can’t get further afield (no pun intended!), there’s still plenty of space for the children to play outside. Being farm children, there’s not really any excuse…

N’s always loved being with his dad, but previously has been a bit young to worry about his dad working late and not being around at tea. But now, he’s turned into a bit of a Daddy’s boy; he always…

I had grand plans for the Easter weekend. I’d taken the Thursday off work to tie in with N being off nursery, so had planned going to National Trust properties, doing various Easter events/trails and the like. Instead, N decided…

It seems like ages ago I wrote a post about what the Red Tractor meant to me, but the work of the Red Tractor has continued and last weekend I was lucky enough to be invited to a launch event…


It’s been a long time coming, but other than a few sporadic bursts of sun and blue sky between rain clouds, we’ve had nothing like today’s weather. It’s been quite glorious and just about warm enough to be outside without…

Now N has the hang of the language thing, I’m finding we have some great conversations. Some are a little loopy and irrelevant as you’d expect for a 3 year old’s thought processes. Others involve out and out lies and…

Red Tractors…not Massey Ferguson or Case tractors but the little red tractor you see on food. I’ve been reading quite a lot recently about the Red Tractor label, and it’s definitely becoming more visible and understood especially with Alex James…