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Lillie’s Birthday Camping Party Weekend
Continue ReadingAs Lillie’s 10th Birthday approached this year I’ll admit I was totally stumped as to what to do for her to celebrate with her friends. She’s had craft parties, soft play, rollerskating, swimming and horse-riding parties in the past. Now we needed something that was a little bit more grown up but still fun. I […]
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A postcard from . . . The Lion Bridge, Burghley House
Continue ReadingOn Thursday afternoon the Beans and I popped over to Burghley House to make the most of the sunshine since we haven’t seen very much of it this week. It was such a mild afternoon that we even managed to go without coats. The beautiful blue sky was a very welcome sight and the fresh […]
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Postcard from . . . Burghley House, Stamford
Continue ReadingSundays are all about spending time together as a family. One of our favourite places to visit is Burghley House and I’m sure you can see why. We had a lovely (if not slightly chilly) family walk there today.
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Overnight camping at Sacrewell Farm
Continue ReadingWhilst Hubby was doing his 100 mile bike ride for Parkinsons UK (which actually turned out to be 117miles), my Mum and I took the Beans to Sacrewell Farm for the night camping. We have been camping at Sacrewell a number of times since living in Peterborough and apart from the time that the Beans […]
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Date night, cocktails and Pizza Express
Continue ReadingDate night when you’re married with kids is so important. We make time for them whenever possible, our most recent was Pizza Express with cocktails!
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Adventure time at The Spinney
Continue ReadingDo you have those places local to you that you hear people talking about and you think “we must go there”, then 10 seconds later you promptly forget about it until the next time someone mentions it? Well, The Spinney is one such place for us. I have been meaning to take the Beans there […]
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Rather nippy at Rutland Water
Continue ReadingOur usual plan of action for New Year’s Day is to go for a lovely family walk but this year the heaven’s opened and it poured with rain all day long so we switched our plans around a little and spent New Year’s day at Ikea looking for new bedroom storage and bed solutions for […]
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Santa and the Pirates that don’t want Christmas
Continue ReadingAs a family we are no strangers to LP Creatives and their entertaining children’s shows so we were delighted when we were invited to see their latest offering at Stamford Corn Exchange. Unfortunately, our house has been plagued with illness since that evening (nothing to do with the show) so I’m only just getting around to […]
