The last few days before Christmas and I think I’m finally starting to feel festive; my house is back to normal after the renovations, the tree is up and decorated, I’ve…
Family
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My kids love sleepovers – or should I say they love the idea of sleepovers. Both Sam and Flo have beds that pull out and transform from singles to doubles (the…
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Last year I wrote a post about how I felt approaching my first Christmas as a widow. I can’t lie, it was not easy; it was the run-up to the holidays…
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It certainly was a bracing day when we climbed up on the Cow and Calf rocks last weekend. It’s Ilkley’s most famous landmark but oddly it was the first time we’d…
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We had our first taste of the Big Fish Little Fish family rave experience in Liverpool in the summer, so when we heard they were putting on another party in Leeds,…
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Tatton Park in Cheshire is continuing its year of celebrations of the children’s author Roald Dahl with a special Christmas event at its Knutsford mansion. You might remember we visited the…
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Forget hanging out at the soft play, lunching on fish fingers and chips and bad coffee. Harrogate has a new place to take your little ones which is as much for…
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I’m always taking photos and one of the reasons why I love blogging is that I have the freedom to write what I like and take photos of what I like…
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Rather than the last minute rush for a family photo, this month I’m pretty much spoiled for choice as we’ve been away this weekend and had lots of opportunity to pass…
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Living in Yorkshire we’re spoilt for choice with places to go for walks, and the ones around Bolton Abbey are among my favourite. We headed there this weekend with our lovely…
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Craft is a bit of a way of life for my son. He is always cutting, sticking and creating, making up games, writing little books, drawing huge pictures and generally just…
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I won’t be the only one saying this, but how on earth did it get to the end of September already? I still feel like the summer holidays have only just…
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Lately I’ve been feeling a bit like I’m on a rollercoaster. Or rather, that I’m still on the rollercoaster I got on a few years ago and this is just another…
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A very good thing about writing a blog is that – like a diary – you can go back and see how life was for you at any point in the…
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August has been a month of change, of holidays and of new adventures. It was the end of July when we moved back across the Pennines to Yorkshire and more than…