Life's about experiences. These are mine.
In order to do something that wasn’t aimed at a three year old a couple of us went to the Target Centre this morning to do archery. The Target Centre was a reasonable distance from the lodge and looking at the map didn’t seem possible to reach by bike. This was because it was at …
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For the second year running we are back at Center Parcs Longleat for a family holiday. This year there are two more of us than there were last year as we now have a second granddaughter and our younger son is here too. It’s really nice to get the whole family together like this and …
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For my first day of (semi)-retirement we decided to visit the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. It’s been quite a few years since our last visit, ten in fact. The last time was a blustery winters day so we thought it would be good to see it at a different time of year. It’s a …
WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD! If you haven’t been and want to keep the magic for when you do stop reading now! When it was announced a year or so ago that ABBA were reforming and would be performing I knew that we would have to go. ABBA has long been a guilty pleasure of ours. The …
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We have been vaguely aware of the Milestones museum‘s existance for quite a while now, seeing the signs for it every time we drove through Basingstoke. We’ve had no compelling reason to visit it until recently when we were looking for somewhere engaging to take our young granddaughter this holiday. Milestones is living museum that …
It has been quite a while since I have been down to the Historic Dockyards at Portsmouth but there is so much there that it is always worth a visit. Going there on what was predicted to be the hottest day of the year probably wasn’t the smartest move but we’d planned it for a …