Before the world awakes (the world being those in my house currently fast asleep) I like to have a little time to myself to relax. This has only been happening for about a year where I get up before everyone else, it’s not always by choice that I get up so early that is due to Charlie cat knocking and miowing at my bedroom door. … Continue reading The Simple Things Magazine May Issue Review
I took quite a few photographs whilst we were exploring Whinlatter Forest, you can read about our trip here. I was intrigued by how even in the shadows of the forest there were bright areas illuminated by the varying colours of the overgrown foliage. Most of the photographs were taken whilst I was walking which is why they are a little blurred but I quite … Continue reading Light and Darkness In The Wild Wild Wood
Encouraged by our An adventure up a cliff Monkey asked if we could go for a walk somewhere. We have already done the Gruffalo trail at Whinlatter Forest a couple of years ago but I was aware it had recently changed to include the use of an App to see digital characters from Julia Donaldsons book The Gruffalo (I reviewed this book 4 years ago on … Continue reading A Walk Into The Wild Wild Wood
At the start of the Easter holidays (sorry I’m a little behind with posts) we had a family trip out to Lake District Wildlife Park. It’s a lovely wildlife park with friendly helpful staff who will happily answer questions and tell you about the animals they look after. We have been quite a few times but I always enjoy going there. When we went there was … Continue reading Lake District Wildlife Park Easter Family Fun
Over the weekend our family had a mini holiday to the seaside town of Blackpool. This wasn’t just a little holiday though as my husband was running in his 10th marathon after saying he would only ever do 1 many years ago. Blackpool I’m afraid has never been a favourite destination as I’ve never liked the busy streets and the shop owners always used to … Continue reading Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside
The tide was in, there would be no sand castle to build, crabs to go in search of in rock pools and no paddling at the waters edge. So our family of 4 set off to climb up to the top of the cliff overlooking St Bees. This beach is one of our favourite family destinations which you can read about in the post Beach … Continue reading An Adventure Up A Cliff
Don’t be alarmed there are no actual mice in the house, I am instead referring to one of my daughter’s favourite toys! I bought her the mouse house for her second birthday from the Early Learning Centre I had been looking at getting her a small wooden dolls house to have little figures but she was and still is putting things in her mouth and … Continue reading The Mouse House
Why does hearing a song transport you back to the time of hearing it and remind you of events in your past? A study of responses from people with Altzheimers (author Petr Janata Associate Professor of Psychology UC Davies’ Centre For Mind And Brain) found; “What seems to happen is that a piece of familiar music serves as a soundtrack for a mental movie that … Continue reading Music and Happiness
Each day I am very proud and happy with both my children’s achievements however great or small we celebrate each and every achievement. Yesterday I was a very proud mummy as both had achieved big things. Boo age 2 is well on course for her age as discussed at the parents evening we went to last night at nursery. The key person a lovely lady … Continue reading Proud Mummy
I haven’t sewn by hand for a long time however on the eve of Mothers day I finally found some time to make a little rabbit for my own mum for mothers day. I had seen little sewn animals on Pinterest when I was on maternity leave scrolling through the pages in the tiny hours feeding Boo. The projects I had seen had little embroidered … Continue reading Little White Rabbit
Bee Appy 