Weekend in Cumbria

We had a lovely time visiting Nana and Pa in Cumbria this weekend. It took our mind off the trauma of Noah finishing nursery forever :) Cousins Benjamin and Thomas came up, and the children had a great time. We also snook out to see Harry Potter in the cinema and used up one of our final wedding gifts, with dinner in the Punch Bowl.

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Noah had his first (and only) taster session at his new school this morning. He wanted to wear his uniform in today and looked so cute in it. The session seemed to have gone well, so hopefully he'll be happy to go back in September.

Jessie has found herself a new favourite resting place.. though obviously she still prefares to find a freshly ironed set of clothes if she can (rare find in this house at the moment!).

The two above images sum up the problem with chickens. One minute they're clucking away at you, and the next thing you know they've mistaken your toes for something tasty to eat.

Amie got some seeds a birthday present and we planted them out in the garden not expecting too much from them. For the longest time they looked like weeds, but have really come up nicely now as a bunch of wild flowers (complete with wild animals living in them!)

A lovely suprise this week was Emma making a flying visit to Wokingham. We had the chance to have lunch with her before she went to the airport which was lovely. Looking forward to catching up with her properly next month!

More photos of Farnham

I want to move to this town, it's so pretty :)

Happy Father's Day

We had a lovely Father's Day today (even if I didn't quite make it out of bed ontime to do Rich a fry up as promised...). The children had football this morning, and then there was a game between all the dad's afterwards. After lunch we made a trip to Farnham for the first time. It's a very pretty market town just 30 minutes drive away. Today there was a brass band playing in a lovely playground as well so the children had good fun inbetween being dragged around the shops. I look forward to going back there for a longer visit when the shops are all open soon. I have a few weeks when the children are still at school and I'm finished uni, so I will make the most of that :) We also got around to replacing our camera, so I'm able to update the blog with some photos of our day. We didnt' buy it till late in the day.. so there aren't THAT many photos.. hope to take a few more soon :)

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Easter half term

Yesterday we made a trip to Odds Farm Park in High Wycombe. http://www.oddsfarm.co.uk/
The kids had a chance to go on a tractor trailer ride, and feed lambs with a bottle.. couldn't take a photo of this as the lambs were actually 4 months old and very strong, so I was busy holding onto the bottle too! In fact I'm thinking of suing Odds Farm under the trades description act.



Amie has perfected the art of one handed cycling.. occasionally the second hand comes off, but luckily not for very long!







We finally got our family passes to Legoland sorted out with the Tesco clubcards.... well worth using our points for as the kids had a fab time on the two days in a row that we went there.. might give it a rest for a few days!

Happy Birthday dear Amie

Ricky Tomlinson popped into wish Amie a Happy Birthday (My Ar*e)

Amie turned 6 on the 8th April this year. For her birthday we got her a tropical fish tank, and today have got 8 fish in it.. will be adding more in a few weeks. It's very relaxing watching the fish swim around!

This is the closest Amie's going to come to owning a DS (or De-sensetising Station as I think of them as) any time soon. Though given her obsession with Super Mario Galaxy that she likes to play with her Dad on the Wii, it was an easy choice when it came to picking her birthday cake.

The Merry month of March

Either Amie or Noah took this picture of Jessie. I just found it in the camera.. or maybe it was Seamus? Think it captures her very well.


When I look at this picture I'm amazed at how much Noah has caught up on Amie over the years...






St. Paddy's Day has been and gone. The only thing I could get away with at Amie's school was to put a green bobbin in her hair, but Noah and I had our green jumpers on. Unfortunately that's it for our St. Patrick's Day celebrations. I was explaining to Amie how it is in Ireland, and I hope to be able to take her there to witness the madness for herself. In 2 years it falls on a Saturday, but it would be madness to fly in on Friday evening to fly home on Sunday for school on Monday.


We had a lovely day today,Noah was out riding his bike that he got for his birthday. Today was the first day he mastered riding on it all by himself. He was very proud of himself :) Although we bought it for him last month, I wasn't expecting him to be able to ride it till the Summer, or perhaps Autumn.. but he's taken to it really well. I'm looking forward to heading out with them both for family cycles in the Summer.