Apologies for the break in service. Lay has worked his magic, recovered the blog from a back-up and we are now back on-line in time to blog about our life as we make the move up north!! It’s hard to believe it has been 18 months since our last post. We will try and fill […]
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Viking Day at CJS
Year 4 at CJS are learning about the Vikings and what better way than to have a dress up day at school. I am so glad appropriate Viking attire is an oversized t-shirt and dressing gown belt!!! Enjoy your day Megan the Great – try not to stab anyone with those horns!! Meanwhile, William has […]
Christmas jumper day
Megan is going to school as a vision in red today for Christmas jumper day.
Fun in the leaves
Today we met up with Tracey and Richard. We decided to stay local and headed to QE park where we were met with an abundance of leaves. And I mean AN ABUNDANCE!!! We had and awesome time having leaf fights and burying people (well mostly Megan, William and Richard) who was clearly enjoying being a […]
Ockey the Octopus
William was special helper today and came home with Ockey. William had to help Ockey find different sources of light. As it was dark by the time he got home from Beavers, William used the flash on his camera as a source of light to take a picture of himself in the mirror. He then […]
Pop in to Pinner
We started our journey to Cumbria with a trip to Pinner to check in with Grandma and Grandad and we decided to do the same on our journey home. Being it bank holiday Monday we decided to get up early and beat any bank holiday traffic. We set off just after 5am and had a […]
Our last day in Cumbria
All good things have to come to an end….. This morning, Lay ran Togo up Beacon Tarn, ending his jaunt in the hills with the same route as we started our holiday with, whilst I made a start on the task of gathering our belongings!! We wanted to have a fairly chilled last day in […]
This girl can!!!!
As you know, I am a triathlete in training and, when not swimming epic open water events, I have been using our time in Cumbria to become reacquainted with my bike and to test out my ankle on some gentle runs in preparation for my first event on 10 September. Well, my Cumbrian training culminated […]
Pieces of eight!!
It’s Megan’s long awaited birthday – the days having been on the count down since our arrival in Cumbria. This morning Megan and William were early to rise (and I mean EARLY) filled with excitement. I had to pretend to be asleep a couple of times to keep them in their room, especially as I […]
Wray Castle
Today, Daddy was having a day off for good behaviour and was heading into the hills with Togo. This left Megan, William and I to fend for ourselves and gave us the perfect opportunity to explore a National Trust property without having to worry about Togo. A bit of research later and we decided on […]