Had a lovely walk on the South Downs. We did an 8 mile walk starting from Hooksway and then along the South Downs Way. St Andrews Church, Didling a great place for lunch. Continue reading

Another visit to Pie & Vinyl Cos we love it!! Continue reading

Feeding the swans and looking very fetching in jarmies and my boots! Continue reading

For years we have wanted to get rid of our fireplace as its too big and replace it with a woodburner. I have have had some crazy quotes to remove the fireplaceand prepare it for a burner (£4k+) so we are going to do it ourselves and the first step was, vandalism! [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnT-H5WEaHQ[/embedyt] (I’m… Continue reading

Over the next Bank holiday at the beginning of May we are going to do a bit of a backpacking trip. We are going to walk around 12 miles or so over a couple of days, camping at two sites on the way. Its only a few miles from home so we have any disasters… Continue reading

Wildlife agent Cory Lambert discovers a woman’s body in the snowy wilderness of the Wind River Indian Reservation. The FBI sends in rookie agent Jane Banner, she’s unprepared for the extreme Wyoming winter so she employs Cory as a tracker. The two soon find that there lives are in danger as well… I really enjoyed… Continue reading

So Good!! Continue reading

Inspired by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s program “Hughs Wild West” we have booked a week in Devon in May. We’ve booked a cottage near the source of the River Otter in the Blackdown hills which looks a very nice area. Continue reading

So what is the Beast from the East? Well, here is an explanation from Prof Tom Choularton, head of the Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of Manchester. “At this time of year there is normally a polar vortex – a large mass of cold air – in the upper atmosphere, also known as… Continue reading

Had a week at home for the half term. I spent a couple of days working (I’m helping one of our neighbours renovate their annex/studio) while the girls had some days out. On Wednesday Hatty and Lewis came to stay for a few days. The weather, although was bright and clear and we had a… Continue reading

Encased in a flower’s grasp, secrets hide. Enveloped in a tree’s tight grip, secrets hide. Protected by their mother, secrets hide. Beneath the surface of a pool, secrets hide. Something stirs on the breeze, a scent pure, fresh. Spring. The flower’s grip loosens. The tree’s grip releases. The mother’s protection grows stronger. The pool stirs.… Continue reading

You gotta love Sunday’s, bit of a lie in mooched about, went for a lovely walk in the actual sunshine. Got home, made honey, ginger and sunflower seed scones – which we munched while watching a film – good day! Continue reading

Last weekend it was Iris’s birthday so Emma, Chloe and Iris went Ice skating at Chelmsford and even came home intact! Happy Birthday Iris! Continue reading

Last weekend it was Iris’s birthday so Emma, Chloe and Iris went Ice skating at Chelmsford and even came home intact! Happy Birthday Iris! Continue reading

This year we decided to do something a bit different for Christmas, so we booked a beach hut at Mersea for the day. It was really cool, we took a picnic, dad came down, and the Corkys popped down for a walk. The weather was OK, no rain but a bit of a cool wind… Continue reading

Last weekend was great. The Caple’s came over on Saturday and in the evening we went to Lucy and Daves for their annual Christmas burn up It was a great evening munching sausages and drinking mulled wine while standing around the fire which kept us warm despite the temperature being below freezing. Sunday it snowed,… Continue reading

Emma and I have been visiting Colchester zoo since she was tiny- months old! Our last gold card is about to expire so we did our final visit with Liane and Livvy last week. I love our zoo, and I will really miss going, the girls have learnt so much there and we’ve had some… Continue reading

It was Chris’s 70th birthday this week so a couple of weekends ago we drove to Little Venice in London, met up with the Caples and got a boat along Regents Canal to Camden for a little bit of shopping and lunch in the Spread Eagle Pub. A lovely picture of K and some weirdo!… Continue reading

It was Emma,s Birthday on Thursday so she had Martha, Jess, Iris, Lara and Maddy round for an afternoon tea and Cake,and then oldies came for tea. A really nice afternoon. The girls are reading “Warrior Cats” so K made them a “Thunderclan” Cake – very cool. Update Last weekend Emma and Jess had a… Continue reading

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ao-ewzx5Bw[/embedyt] I cant get this song out of my head. Continue reading

Lovely Walk to Chalkney Wood with Ray and Jess. Continue reading

Lovely Walk to Chalkney Wood with Ray and Jess. Continue reading

Went to the fireworks at Emma’s School with the Corkys last night. What an amazing display – in fact I think it was the best display I’ve ever seen! Continue reading

On Tuesday, the ghouls walked the streets of Earls Colne. Two of these ghastly trick of treaters were Livvy and I. Livvy was dressed as a skeleton and I as a witch, we did very well for sweeties while out and came back with our bags loaded. On the way, we bumped into Beth the… Continue reading

Last week we cycled the Salterns Way From Chichester to West Wittering on the coast. Its 12 miles each way along mainly traffic free routes and its a really nice route. The beach at West Wittering is lovely, very sandy with few stones a great place to hang out. Chichester Cathedral Continue reading

Years ago, I was a huge prince fan but by the early 90’s I had gone off him and never got into his later stuff. However, I heard this track the other day which was the first single off the “Planet Earth” album which came out in 2007. Its an amazing track and if nothing… Continue reading

It’s half term this week so we’ve borrowed Barbie and Marks house while they’re sunning themselves in Australia. We headed down on Sunday and mooched yesterday as it was pouring most of the day (so nice to just doss about, don’t you just love rainy days!) Today we cycled down to the historic dockyard to… Continue reading

My nephew Lewis plays for the U11 Jaguars at the Swindon Wildcats Academy and on Saturday evening we went to watch him play the Chelmsford mini chieftains at the Riverside ice rink in Chelmsford. It was a great game with both teams slogging away at each other. Swindon scored towards the end of the first… Continue reading