Not so sunny BloxFest
Last year’s BloxFest (my old village’s May festival of stalls, food, crafts and 3 stages of music in 3 of the village pubs) was great fun, and packed out due to the great weather. This year the weather’s cold and…
days out in Oxfordshire
Blenheim Palace visit
Since the snow left a week or so into April, we’ve been having generally warm and sunny weather. A few April showers but that’s to be expected. But it does meant that we’ve been able to get out and about…
Blenheim Palace visit with a toddler
Trying to make the most of the good (ahem, cough) weather (mmm, think the forecast was a bit optimistic!), I’d decided we’d make a trip out to Blenheim Palace. I’d won a family ticket and therefore annual pass upgrade from…
One week off, one sunny day
Following the Jubilee bank holidays last week (poor attempts by us to take part in local village festivities due to living inbetween two villages – although I’ve been informed there’s a commemorative mug for N down at the nearest village),…
Soft play brings out the best and worst
It was a toss up today as to whether we went to a wildlife park or stayed nearer home and went to Rugrats & Halfpints soft play. Given the weather was a tad cold and potentially rainy, soft play won…
Buses, rivers and geese
I hadn’t been to Oxford since pre-Christmas, but needed to do some boot size research at a shop there, so decided to make my first trip there with N. It was his first trip on a bus as we always…
