N’s school year finished a week ago, but due to our camping trip, I’m behind in writing up that final week’s school days post. The most important one of the year…although I’m planning to do an overview of the year…
Inspiring children in sport and cycling through watching the women’s Tour of Britain road race coming within a mile of our house
Another week closer to half term and primary school allocation day has passed. I can’t really believe that was us waiting last year. But I hope anyone waiting this time got the school choice they wanted. If your children are…
N definitely takes after me. He loves leaflets. Anywhere we go he’ll spot them and pick them up, and then spend ages ‘reading’ them. The doctors surgery, museums, shops, sports centres. So when we stopped at the services on the…
I do have some favourite tv shows, and some of them might be classed as trashy. Many of those I tend to only catch glimpses of inbetween catching up on those shows I’ve recorded, others I just have to watch. …
It feels like we’ve only been back at school and work for a couple of days, but nope, 2 weeks in and only a month until half term. Scary how time rushes by and really makes you think about how…
It’s my final post of 2015, my annual round up post. 456 posts later (many were just photo posts, I’m not that prolific with my copy), and I wanted to share what we’ve been up to. I’ll be including some…
We visited Rushmere Country Park for a blogger meet, great place for picnics, walks and exploring for kids and adults alike.
Socks. They seem to take up a lot of our conversations in our house (sounds exciting doesn’t it?!). I think most families have issues – well, at least the person who does the washing does. Single socks galore, although I…
Swimming lessons throw up a whole load of dilemmas, not least how to put on a swimming cap. I’ve not updated on N’s swimming journey for a long time. Mostly because now he swims independently it means I don’t experience…
With only a few days to go until parents hear about primary school places for reception class, the anticipation is building, and I’m becoming a little more anxious. With our county, 91% of children got their 1st choice place at secondary…
