While many people are looking forward to the football world cup, there are other sports of interest in the summer. For me, summer means tennis. I don’t play anymore (apart from an attempted knock around with N). But May to July means French Open tennis, and the grass court season including Queens and Eastbourne tournaments,…
Entertaining kids during camping downtime
When we were away camping, quite a few of the mums mentioned that they loved the fact that you could do your own thing, and time seemed a lot slower on the campsite, with everything taking longer to do. That bit annoys me a bit, because I feel like I’m wasting my time if we’ve…
My Sunday Photo – trampolining action
All of a sudden, rather than just trying to bounce higher by bringing his knees up to his chin, N’s now bouncing properly and getting a lot higher. I couldn’t believe how his this jump was when I got it on camera. He loves jumping down onto his bottom, but he was in awe of…
Planning for a non-birthday outdoor party
Yet again, I think I’ve made a mistake in promising to N he could have a party later in the year, after just having a couple of friends round for tea for his birthday. Well, I said it would be a ‘non-birthday’ party, but really it’s more like a playdate…with what could be turning out…
Living Arrows 2015 week 19 – climbing trees
This weekend we discovered some bluebell woods near us just outside Oxford. It was definitely worth the hour’s journey, and was quite spectacular, literally a blue carpet. N found a tree that he could stand in, and do what could only be describes as aerobics inside, leaning, turning and pushing himself from one side to…
