Category: Family

Beer garden

It’s not often that I get my husband all to myself for a lunch date, but that’s exactly what happened today.  We visited a village outside of Chester called Tattenhall and decided to treat...

MOSI – a grand day out!

On Good Friday (which seems a long time ago now!) we went to Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry, known as MOSI for short. It was small daughter’s choice; she’s been bursting to go...

Fish, chips and The Fabrick

We were able to catch up with my brother and his wife in Derbyshire again yesterday, and after a slight detour thanks to my Dad’s satnav, found ourselves in Ashover. We’ve never been there...

Food, glorious food

One of the things that I would like to do this year is to take a good look at what our family is eating and make a few changes.  As a general rule, we...

A circle of life thing

It’s been a sad day today, in our little corner of Winwick – one of the horses in the field close to our house died.  We know the owners well, my girls have ridden...

Slowing down the world

We’ve all had that feeling, haven’t we – stop the world, I want to get off!  For me, these few days between Christmas and New Year are just that.  It doesn’t exactly stop, but...