Category: Outdoors

Business and pleasure

One of the best things about this being self-employed malarkey is that there are no corporate rules to follow other than the ones we choose to make for ourselves. This means that when my...

Easter holidays

Both of my girls go to schools in different local authorities and generally their holidays coincide – but not this time. Luckily they have overlapped for one week out of the three that they...

Chirk Castle and Offa’s Dyke

On Sunday, small daughter and I bundled ourselves up in our warm clothes and headed to Wrexham in Wales to visit Chirk Castle with small daughter’s friend and her family.  Small daughter’s friend’s Mum...

Delamere Forest

We woke to a frosty morning yesterday, and after a rather lazy start decided not to waste the rest of the day and get out in the fresh air.  Big daughter had homework to...

Mid-January

It’s nearly halfway through the first month of the year.  The time is moving scarily fast and whilst that would seem to be taking us to the Spring more quickly, I’m not so sure...

Saltaire

Hello Monday!  I didn’t expect to see you quite so soon, but here you are, reminding me that it’s nearly a week since I went to visit Saltaire, the village built by mill owner...