As it was Grandpa’s birthday this weekend we headed down to Boscombe to wish him many happy returns (and go for a tasty meal) so here are a few photos from the restaurant where we had lunch. I also baked a cake which I then had to nurse in the car all the way to Grandpa’s. Read more about Grandpa’s birthday[…]
Friday night we left a very windy Oxfordshire and headed across to Derbyshire to celebrate Uncle Martin’s birthday, but joy of joys we had Saturday morning free to explore the beautiful surroundings! We went into Matlock centre first of all: After having a shop (and getting a bit wet) we carried onto Bakewell (where the tarts come Read more about Derbyshire days[…]
Yesterday we set our alarm for earlier than usual on a weekend and drove up first to Newbury to collect Jam’s mum Gaynor and then onto Bracknell, where the Enchanted Market had touched down for a couple of days. The building it was held in is usually a school but it was transformed by some Read more about All aboard for a trip to the Enchanted Market[…]
When staying with mum and dad over Christmas the opportunity to visit Totnes seemed too good to miss so we headed there on Saturday just before we came home. Our first ‘discovery’ was this awesome pirate ship play area right next to where we parked, by excellent companions humoured me by standing next to it Read more about A festive trip to Totnes[…]
We arrived at mum and dads earlier this week with the cats and have been among other things: Making mince pies Making good use of their fire And trying to complete this Jackie Morris wooden jigsaw without the use of the whimsy pieces. I’ll be off to find something warming shortly so all that is Read more about Merry Christmas everyone[…]
It is my sad duty to report the passing of Helena, top chicken and undisputed beauty of the coop, and best friend of Myrtle. On a particularly cold winters morning when going to give the girls their breakfast and let them out for the day we found Helena still seemingly asleep in the nesty box, we Read more about Farewell Helena[…]
So this weekend we visited Wiltshire to see Jam’s Dad and stepmum, but as you can see from the above photo we didn’t stay in Wiltshire for long! We headed to beautiful bath to check out the Christmas market there. As you may be able to tell it was VERY BUSY but there were choirs Read more about Bath for the weekend[…]
On Sunday we went along to Chiltern (home to also a very nice garden centre) to pick up our new (and as you can see not very feathered) rescue chickens. We decided to get two as we still have two ex battery hens in the coop and we wanted to the troops to be even. Below Read more about Our new chickens & congratulations Kip and Beth[…]