Category: Outdoors

Snow!

It snowed last night.  Huge, beautiful, fat flakes which landed silently and turned our little corner of the world white.  Only half and hour earlier it had been raining heavily, so I was more...

Tuesday evening

Tuesdays are always a bit of a rush for us with after-school clubs, so it’s usually soup night.  Tonight’s flavour is cauliflower and Stilton.  Making soup is soup-er easy (sorry!) and makes a great...

September Treasures

I’ve bought myself a new camera.  Nothing flash or fancy, just a new little point and shoot which happened to be on offer at our local Aldi.  Currently I use my old camera and...

Morning walk

Come on, it’s a beautiful morning, come for a walk with the dog and me.  Don’t worry if you’re not keen on dogs, he’s got to stay on his lead today because he can’t...

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...

A view from Chester’s walls

One of the best things about school holidays is the opportunity to catch up with friends that you don’t get chance to see during term time.  We did just that on Wednesday when we...