Gruffalo’s Child Trail and musical magic at Wendover Woods
Enjoying the Gruffalo’s Child Trail and the outdoor musical play things at Wendover Woods with children
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Sun, rain and outdoor fun
One of the best things about beautiful weather is being able to take stunning photos. This weekend’s definitely had some great weather, and there’s been a lot of photo opportunities amongst the weekend’s outdoor fun. For us it started after nursery…
Trendy Thursday – wellies, pjs and cargos
The weather’s just about broken with a spot of rain this evening after what seems like weeks of beautiful warm sunny days. N’s been wearing shorts, shorts and more shorts, and his jumpers have pretty much been relegated to his…
A walk in the woods – searching for bluebells
All over blogs and social media I’ve been seeing glorious bluebell woods photos, of children romping through the flowers, or posing beautifully. After not doing any last year, I decided that we’d try to find some this year. Now, you’d…
Simple pleasures – garden play
The weather’s turned a lot warmer recently, and apart from a bit of rain, it’s generally been dry enough to get out for some garden play and a mooch around. N loves being outside, and at his day nursery earlier…
Getting out in the fresh air
The past few weeks haven’t created many opportunities to get out and about. Usually we spend a bit of time around the farm and then go out to explore places at the weekend, but with lots of visiting my mum,…
Autumn harvest – apples and conkers
I had been hoping to get out and about with N to do a really good proper ‘harvest’ of all the exciting seeds and fruits, but it’s been a bit sporadic. We did get out blackberrying although the haul was…
Quad biking and a new hunt follower
I’m expecting to lose readers (‘please don’t go, don’t goooooo, don’t go away’….in the words of a dubious 90s song) on this post, but we live in the countryside and such activities take part around us every Autumn and Winter. This…
Garden play, fun and frolics
Yesterday was the start of a week off for N from nursery and myself from work, so we’ve got lots of meet ups with friends booked in. It’ll be great to see how he gets on with children he only…
Visiting Stratford upon Avons with swans, locks and Bottom
Enjoying the riverside at Stratford-upon-Avon with a toddler, swans, boats, and locks
Gardening introduction for toddlers
A couple of months ago I bought a little bucket with some strawberry seeds. I thought even allowing for my lack of gardening skill and interest we’d be able to manage that and that it would be a good gardening…
