Back to school – all parents of school-age children will dread those words. We first start to see them in the media before the end of a school term has even ended. Advertisements from Aldi to Marks & Spencer – all designed to hook you into spending money hand over fist. But why? You might call me […]
As we live just down the road from Dalby Forest we are frequent visitors there. On every visit, I stop and watch the folk whizzing down the zip lines of Go Ape. Although I’ve not got a brilliant head for heights I’ve often wanted to try their treetop adventures with the children. We visited during […]
Finding the perfect gifts for your child can be a real challenge. Particularly if you feel like they already have a lot, and you don’t want to give them the impression that life is all about material things. Give them an adventure as a gift instead – just pair it with a small gift to […]
When I started dating Helen, one thing that became apparent was how her family all came together and joy each other company playing a game they called Fish-Animal-Bird. It wasn’t just the games that were fun it was how we’d sometimes all squeeze ourselves around a garden table in a greenhouse until late at night playing […]
On left hander’s day, I thought I’d dedicate a post to our very own leftie – Delilah! Having a left-handed child isn’t really any different to having a right-handed child. The main challenge is writing. When right-handed people write the are moving away from what they have written, not the case for a leftie. So […]
Lightwater Valley theme park is near Ripon in North Yorkshire. It’s a theme park I haven’t visited since I was a young teenager myself so I was looking forward to taking the family for a day out there. This is another visit in our summer of microadventures and here’s how it went. We’d not told […]
York Chocolate Story is an experience we’ve wanted to do for a while. Every time we’re in York we walk past and say something like “we’ll do that next time”. Except we have never done it. Well, we were given the opportunity to visit this past weekend and found it a brilliant family experience. Here’s […]
This past weekend we visited Rock Up in Hull to try out their climbing walls as part of our summer of #microadventures. Read on to find out about our day out what we thought of the place. Why Rock Up indoor rock climbing? When you have four daughters ranging from 8 years old to 14 […]
The last time I remember visiting the national coal mining museum for England I was about twelve years old and it was on a school trip. I remember this trip in particular because there had been a miscalculation and there weren’t enough seats on the bus for everyone. I drew the short straw and had […]
When I was 12 I got a job delivering newspapers around my local estate after school. I loved having that paper round as I earned a few quid each week that I tended to put away and save for something. I soon switched to a longer, morning round that paid more. One thing led to […]
