Skipton Day
Tuesday was a Skipton Day, always a highlight of my month. I just love driving to Yorkshire, knowing that I’ll get to spend the day with yarny friends, eat cake and not feel guilty...
Category: Outdoors
School summer holidays: nearly over
I can’t quite believe that in just over a week and a half, the summer holidays will be over and my girls will be heading back to school and college. And although there’s a...
Picnic tea
One of our favourite types of dinner is what small daughter calls “picnic tea”. I suppose it’s a buffet, a help-yourself dinner, but small daughter has always thought of it as a picnic, something...
Whit week
The schools in the UK have been on holiday again this week, for what’s known as Whit (short for Whitsun) week. Whit Monday (also known as Spring Bank Holiday) marks the end of Easter...
Solar eclipse
It’s quite an amazing thing to see the moon pass in front of the sun. It’s also quite eerie, but here in our part of the UK it wasn’t a total eclipse so although...
Half term part two
The rest of this week seems to have been a bit of a busy blur. We have continued the painting theme, and big daughter’s bedroom is now this rather lovely shade of purple. It’s...
