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A Sunday Well Spent… In Lockdown
A Sunday well spent brings a week of content – well, lets hope so because we are back to home schooling! How was your half term? Our week went by so quickly, I spent most of it poorly. I did have a Covid test and thankfully it was negative, still worrying though. I know I speak for most of us when I say life is pretty suffocating right now. In all the time, raining outside, zero motivation to do anything remotely productive and we just want normal life to resume. We HAD to get out of the house on Sunday, the kids were like caged animals jumping on my sofas,…
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Days Out With Kids: Bear Town, Devon
I realise we have just gone into Lockdown 3 and are homebound, but I really wanted to share a fantastic little gem we visited just before Christmas – Bear Town. Amelie and Charlie received some money from my Mum for Christmas and instead of wasting it on another slime kit or plastic toy, we decided to book them into Bear Town which is located between Exeter and Cullompton in Devon. Bear Town is situated on the same site as the ever famous Bear Trail (which we are absolutely visiting when Lockdown is over). Bear Town is a fantastic and unique role play adventure town for children aged between 1 –…
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Weekend Adventures – Lots of Mumming & Where is Autumn?
Well, that weekend was a bit of a blur. SATURDAY It was a weekend of solo parenting for me, I was actually really looking forward to this. We dropped Mr K off at the train station as he was off on a lads weekend. I didn’t really have any set plans on how to entertain the children as I feel so much pressure to constantly plan activities, I just wanted to enjoy our time together and see where it took us. We popped into Asda on our way home to pick up some baking supplies as I promised the children we could make a favourite of ours – chocolate rice…
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Caravan Holidays
There is just something about a family caravan holiday. Packing up the car with everything but the kitchen sink, I always forget something important like tea towels or a dish cloth. The kiddies getting excited for a weekend away, we all look forward to the cheesy entertainment, big swimming pool and soft play area. I never had a holiday as a family when I was little, it was just my mum, sister and me we enjoyed days out at the park and long summers at the beach, not to mention endless days out playing with our friends where we lived, that was our summer. It was everything a childhood should…
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Easter Blues, Anxiety, Life Lately & The End of Blogging
Hands up who has the Easter blues? We have been treated to the BEST Easter holiday ever. We started ours flying off to Benidorm for the week, it didn’t go as we thought as I became very poorly resulting in a visit to a Spanish hospital. Despite the illness we had such a fantastic family holiday, the children were great, we did lots of exploring, sun bathing and celebrated Charlie’s 5th birthday in the sunshine. I can’t believe he’s 5 – waaaah!! We returned home to England being absolutely freezing, the heating went on as did the fluffy socks and chunky jumpers. It’s lovely going abroad but I do like…
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February Half Term – Exmouth, Budleigh & The Donkey Sanctuary
Half term is all wrapped up for another 6 weeks. We were lucky enough to have an inset day yesterday, the weather has been glorious so we took advantage to cram in family visits, a trip to Budleigh beach, The Donkey Sanctuary and finished our day off with fish and chips. Half term has completely messed up my whole routine, although I have been consistent with working out my eating pattern has taken a nose dive and I feel bloated, sluggish and really unhealthy. But, even though I moan about it, I’ve lived in the moment and not missed out on enjoying myself. I’ve loved having the children home and…
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Weekend Adventures – Sidmouth, Starbucks & Dawlish Warren
We had a full on weekend out and about to keep the children entertained as they have been bickering constantly over the last couple of weeks. We are out of routine, having late nights, early starts and just generally being busy so everyone is tired and ratty. Saturday It took forever to get organised and out of the house on Saturday for some reason everyone was on a go slow. The last time we ventured to Sidmouth was exactly a year a go, we went to the Anchor Inn for some lunch and mooched around the town ending up at Jacobs Ladder. I’ve never walked through the gardens before but…
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The Paulos Circus – Creating Memories Tour 2018, Darts Farm, Topsham
You know summer is here when The Paulos Circus rolls into town. This year we were treated to the #CreatingMemoriesTour2018, which took over 8 months planning to perfect an outstanding performance. If you have visited this particular circus before you will know how much time and effort goes into each show and will not be disappointed this year, it blows the other shows out of the water. The Creating Memories Tour really does live up to its name, it is a visual, dramatic, breath-taking and interactive delight which captures the attention of the whole family. Upon arriving, after being seated we were greeted by everyone’s favourite clown – Mr N. Amelie and…
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Weekend Adventures – House Hunting & Hair Cuts
We didn’t have any real plans for the weekend apart from house hunting. We had 6 houses to view on Saturday which by the end of the day our heads were scrambled, we stopped off at a beautiful pub for a drink. I chose an Espresso Martini, Mr K had a beer and the children had chocolate donuts and dip, they are pros at viewing houses now so a reward for being so good was certainly deserved. I didn’t feel quite right all day on Saturday and after the Espresso Martini, which was just like drinking sugar (I couldn’t drink it all) I was feeling so so poorly. I couldn’t…
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May Bank Holiday Weekend Adventures
Hello, how are we all? I really hope you had a fantastic bank holiday weekend, wasn’t the weather absolutely amazing! I cannot believe how lucky we were to have 3 full days of scorching hot sunshine, what a difference it makes to the weekend and to everyone’s mood. We made the most of our time together, here is a quick round-up of our adventures… Saturday We had a slow start to Saturday with no set plans. We did end up viewing a house which was gorgeous but I’m not sure it was quite what we are looking for. The afternoon really hotted up so we went out for a very…
