The Harker family woke with excitement this morning as it was finally time to put on crisp school uniform and head off to their new school – Pennington CofE Primary School, where Megan was joining year 6 and William year 3. The morning went incredibly smoothly as the new uniforms had been tried on, name-labelled […]
Category archives: Megan’s Milestones
Double Digits
At 9:49 on 24 August 2009 we welcomed our little girl into the world. Ten years later we are waking up on Megan’s birthday to an incredibly beautiful sunrise over Haweswater and the surrounding fells. The good thing about 10 year olds, is they don’t wake up as early as new born babies so we […]
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 […]
World War 2 – Anderson Shelters
Year 3 pupils at CJS have been learning all about World War 2. For their homework they were asked to build an air-raid shelter. This was quite a task and took several weeks to complete. Megan made a book to record how she made it. Take a peek and see for yourselves using the link […]
First Day at CJS
After a nervous couple of days, Megan woke up this morning keen to get ready for her first day at Clanfield Junior School. She proudly put on her new school uniform, which was kindly purchased and name labelled by Grannie Annie and Grandad – a big thank you from us for that! Megan was keen to […]
Finishing on a high
Today was another remarkable day. It was the last day of our holiday and the weather conditions were PERFECT for attempting to summit Coniston Old Man as the sun was shining but it wasn’t too hot, the summit was free from cloud allowing us spectacular panoramic views, the strong winds from yesterday had eased to […]
Megan’s 7th Birthday Part 3 – The big day has finally arrived
Well, there was to be no repeat of the last time we were in Cumbria for Megan’s birthday as Megan and William were up and about from 5am wondering when then could go upstairs and see if there were any presents. We finally gave in shortly after 6 for the unwrapping frenzy to begin. It […]
Megan’s 7th Birthday Part 2 – Pets, Pizzas and Pedals
So…. The rain continues and so our plans for the week change. Not wanting to miss out on the sunny weather due later in the week we bring forward Megan’s birthday celebrations so we can spend the rainy morning in the shelter of the cinema. Megan was really keen to see the film ‘The secret […]
Cycling on the bobbly stuff – Greenodd to Haverthwaite
It is now 4 days since Megan was presented with her new bike and having cycled the Ulverston canal path three times now we decided a change of scene was in order (for our sanity if nothing else). We set off to explore the disused railway that runs from Greenodd to Haverthwaite. I have to […]
Megan’s Wild Camping Story
Me and my family went wild camping and we swam in Beacon Tarn. Mummy swam to the other side and for tea we had tuna pasta bake. It was fun!!!