I love autumn and there’s not many people I know who don’t enjoy the seasonal change. All the leaves changing colour, the natural foraging of blackberries and sloes, and the joys of collecting shiny conkers from their cases. Like most children N loves picking up conkers, and the threatening dying off of horse chestnut trees…
Project 52 2019 week 41 – Conker Alley
We’re rapidly heading deeper into autumn. We’ve turned on our heating in the evenings (and the mornings although I always think it’s too hot and we don’t need it on then). And it’s been raining a lot. Here’s this week’s Project 52, we’re onto week 41. On Sunday, it was a quiet day – similar…
Trying something new at Brockhole on Windermere visitor centre
When I mentioned to my brother we were heading up to the Lake District for a few days, he was most put out that we weren’t going walking. I don’t mind a walk, but I’m not a fan of hiking, and I get so hot just normally, trekking up a few hills and valleys would…
Camping gear for kids
When we went camping as kids it was either with the guides where we had to make our own racks for storing bags of food on. Or it was just in the garden for which all we needed was bedding and everything else was in the house. But going camping nowadays there seems to be…
Seaside activities at Whitby beach and West Cliff
Living in the middle of a country it’s not often we get to the seaside, so whenever we go away I always try and make sure we book somewhere near enough to visit a beach at least once. A trip to York meant we had the choice of beaches and seaside towns within an hour’s…
