Foodies Festival 2023! Earlham Park – Norwich! It’s been a decade since I worked with The Foodies Festival for the first time, back in 2013 I was invited to come as their guest and sample the delights they had on offer in Battersea Park and I have, since then, worked with them many times. However, this year is the first year I’ve collaborated with them in my home city of Norwich and this weekend coming is the weekend that is […]
Summer Holidays 2023 – Week 5! Week 5?! Where did the weeks go?! In a way I’ve been willing this week to come so that we could start enjoying our holiday away that wasn’t in a tent, but now we are half way through it! We began the week doing some slow living. The littles and I went to Roarr, Jonny did some work and helped in my Mum’s garden as did the big kids, we bought school shoes (and […]
How To Camp Better With A Large Family! While we are by no means the experts in the field of camping, I don’t think you have to be to enjoy this absolutely terrific style of family holiday. Is it hard work? Well, yes, in all honesty it is. It’s hard work before you leave, from the planning and packing (playing Jenga in the car more like) and it’s hard work when you’re there (with children at any rate – keeping […]
Suffolk Yurt Holidays Again! After the most glorious weekend at the Suffolk Yurt Holidays site last year, we booked again right away to return. I couldn’t get my birthday weekend for 2023 but as luck would have it my Mother In Law’s 70th fell on a weekend when they did have full site availability so we snapped that up and booked in advance for 2024 as well! And we’ve just got back from that second stay to celebrate my Mother […]
Summer Holidays 2023 – Week 3! We started the week by getting up bright and early (I’m talking still the middle of the night really) and heading down to Cornwall for 5 days of camping in Polzeath. We had planned August thinking it would be bright and sunny but, alas, the weather in the run up was anything but and we were very worried about it thinking it would be a complete wash out. Luckily the weather turned a little […]
Summer Holidays 2023 – Week 2! Week two (or 4 if you’re Florence) has been far, far quieter than I would ideally like. If it were up to me no one would go anywhere without the rest of us and we’d be stuck together like glue all the time. The reality is though that as the big kids get older they want to do different things, sometimes with their mates and sometimes they just want to stay at home and […]
Summer Holidays 2023 – Week 1 (and -1&2)! The summer holidays started for Florence on my birthday weekend so I’m calling them summer holidays weeks – 1&2! And now the boys have finally broken up too we’ve had our first week all together. What a busy time we’ve had with busy birthday celebrations for me being an evening beach trip to Cromer for me and the littles, a day at Center Parcs and then a very soggy beach day in […]
Activities For Summer With Books2Door! You’ll have seen me in June waxing lyrical about the fab books which came in our Books2Door subscription package for Raffie. The sub is exactly what it says on the tin, books delivered to your door each month, tailored to his age and reading requirements and included are activity books as well as reading and some sheets to be completed on rainy days like colouring and puzzles. It struck me how much he enjoyed the […]
The End Of The School Year 2022/2023! Hardly feels five minutes since the picture above was taken in anticipation of the beginning of the school year for 2022/2023. Raffie was a pre-schooler about to hit reception while Jimmy was to go into his final year of primary school and we had no idea which school he would be going to for his next adventure. Florence was to begin U4 (year 8) and Posie, my littlest lovely, was to miss them […]
Imperial War Museum Duxford – Flying Season 2023! We’ve visited the Imperial War Museum at Duxford a few rimes now, both as a regular day trip visitor (which was pretty special) and to see the Duxford Air Shows which are really quite something else! The last one we went to before this past weekend was to close the season last year and we really did have the most tremendous day out but this year, for the opening of the flying […]
