Category: Outdoors

This and that

I don’t know where the time is going. It’s Thursday already!  The days are rushing past, seemingly ever-faster, and it seems as if no sooner have I got up in the morning than it’s...

Bank Holiday

It’s been another Bank Holiday Monday here in the UK, which is usually the cue for chaos on the roads as people travel home from long weekends away and is a good excuse for...

Squeezing it in

Small daughter breaks up for her school Easter holidays today.  I’m very much looking forward to two weeks without school runs, but I do find myself always doing the same thing just before a...

February half term

It’s school half term this week in our part of the country and I have thoroughly enjoyed not having to rush about in the mornings.  It’s going to be horrible next week when I...

Herons and socks

After that title, you might have been hoping for a post about tall grey birds wearing hand-knits, in which case I’m sorry to disappoint you.  There are herons and socks in this post –...

Mid-January

Well, here we are in the middle of January already.  We haven’t seen much of the sun this week, but we have seen a lot of clouds and drizzly rain.  It’s not even particularly...