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An enchanted hall, garden and castle, Belsay

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An enchanted hall, garden and castle, Belsay

Tucked away in the Northumberland countryside is a magical place: Belsay Hall, gardens and castle.   Luckily for us I picked an especially lovely spring day to explore Belsay with the children.  I really had no clue of what we were in for when I decided to add it to our agenda.  It came highly […]

Filed Under: Out and about Tagged With: castle, English Heritage, family fun, garden, historic property, magic, Northumberland, out and about, places to inspire

A glimmer of Spring and our family garden opening ceremony

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A glimmer of Spring and our family garden opening ceremony

We were celebrating on Sunday evening.  According to Hugo, my 5 year old, we were having a family garden opening ceremony. The weather had finally turned and the whole family spent the entire day in the garden tidying and playing.  The kids were so overjoyed they wanted to have BBQ opening ceremony on Sunday evening. […]

Filed Under: House and Garden Tagged With: bugs, bumblebee, country kids, family garden, free play, garden, spring

Jumping into Gardening with the #KidsGrowWild Challenge

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Jumping into Gardening with the #KidsGrowWild Challenge

Thanks to Chris who blogs at Thinly Spread and Annie’s linky, the inspiring How does your garden grow?, we have been a bit more active in the garden this year, cleared weeds, trimmed hedges, prepared our veg bed. I had pledged to get the children more involved too. Then along came the #KidsGrowWild Challenge from […]

Filed Under: Barefoot Books, House and Garden Tagged With: garden, gardening, kids

Bank Holiday weekend in and around Oxford

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Bank Holiday weekend in and around Oxford

With the Bank Holiday weekend on us we have so many options, so many things happening in and around Oxford. We did plan to go camping on the New Forest, but decided to stay home instead and do a big spring clean. Over the week fliers and emails have been tempting us with what’s on […]

Filed Under: Oxford and around Tagged With: Blenheim Palace, Cotswold Wildlife Park, garden, gardening, Oxford and around

What lurks in the garden

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– Turning off the garden tap I had to jump… because a little green frog jumped out from just beside my hand. I resisted the urge to scream (thinking of having to set a positive example), then quickly summoned the Littlins.  They were over joyed that  by the sight. Little Man, as always, wanted to […]

Filed Under: Learning Tagged With: children, garden, learning, parenting

Chicken Gallery

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– Here’s our adventure in keeping chickens thus far: Is that really a Chicken house inside? A heap of wood to be turning into a chicken coup and a small run We are almost there! We can highly recommend Farmer Mike Very happy chicken at New Barn Farm. So who wants to come home with […]

Filed Under: chicken, House and Garden Tagged With: chicken, garden, learning, pictures

The Economics of Keeping Chicken

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– Apparently chicken are the 3rd most popular “pet” kept in the UK.  As I explained in my previous post, I do love the romantic idea of them pecking away on the scrap heap and producing delicious fresh eggs. …but does it make financial sense? Well, here’s the run down of costs: In preparation for […]

Filed Under: chicken, House and Garden, Learning Tagged With: chicken, garden, learning, tips

The Chicken have arrived

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It all started off with a romantic vision of seeing chicken scratching away at the bottom of the garden. That was a year ago, when we moved to this house. There is a decent garden and as a huge supporter of recycling I thought chicken would be great:  We love eggs. We eat lots of […]

Filed Under: House and Garden, Learning Tagged With: chicken, children, garden, learning, tips

Did you know it is Childhood Obesity Week this week?

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  My eyes were drawn to a display this morning while dropping the Littlins off at nursery- It’s Childhood Obesity Week this week. I and my parents haven’t done very well in this area, we are all very over-weight, obese on some scales.   It got me thinking:  just what am I doing to help […]

Filed Under: Learning, Lifestyle Tagged With: baby, breastfeeding, children, diet, garden, tips, toddler

Life’s adventures

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Ever since I remember, I’ve always had the travel bug. Before having kids I’d go on crazy adventures like hiking in the Pyrennes with our dog on a route that included clavijas, sailing 4 months in the East Mediterranean crewing on other people’s boats. Once the children were born, I had to grow up & […]

Filed Under: House and Garden, Lifestyle, Travel Tagged With: children, discovery, garden, learning, motherhood, Travel

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