Category: Benjamin

  • Sleeping on the Bus

    We have a sleeping child each on the bus in Paris This specific post was created using WordPress for Android on a mobile phone. This explains but not excuses any incorrect or unusual typography, brevity or formatting.

  • Best Grandma?

    Surely in the running for a best Grandma award has to be Linda. Here is a recent image with her and both her grandchildren. Reading two books fir two different children simultaneously. This specific post was created using WordPress for Android on a mobile phone. This explains but not excuses any incorrect or unusual typography,…

  • Best Grandma?

    Surely in the running for a best Grandma award has to be Linda. Here is a recent image with her and both her grandchildren. Reading two books fir two different children simultaneously. This specific post was created using WordPress for Android on a mobile phone. This explains but not excuses any incorrect or unusual typography,…

  • Farm and Fun

    April 27 2013 Today we took a trip to the farm, New Holly, so that Ben and Elliott could go in the play barn and also see the animals. By the time we arrived Elliott was fast asleep so just Ben and mummy got to go in the play barn while daddy sat in the…

  • Aviemore Awaits

    Tuesday, 2nd April – Thursday, 4th April We took a short break over Easter and had a few days holiday at the MacDonald Douglas resorts in Aviemore. The drive from Lancaster to Aviemore is a long one, but also a really beautiful drive through the heartland of Scotland. We left early in the morning so…

  • Animal Madness

    Monday, 1st April 2013 Today’s family fun day was constrained to half a day as Mark had to work the bank holiday afternoon and evening. therefore it was decided to take a short trip to the Animal Oasis to see the small zoo just north of Carnforth. It seems we were wise to not go…

  • Reading with Mummy

    Wednesday, 27th March 2013 It is the growing tradition for the kids to join us in the bed in the mornings now. We get to drink a coffee and they get to cuddle mummy and daddy, play with toys, occasionally create havoc, so all good fun. Sometimes mummy likes to read to them. It brings…

  • Unearthing the Past

    Saturday, 16th March 2013 Lydia was in the United Kingdom for a few weeks during the early part of this year and as part of her stay she trekked north to visit Chuck. So on the Saturday we decided to kill their buzz* by dragging ourselves along on their visit to the north. Vindolanda Lydia…

  • Hopi Mother’s Day

    Sunday, 10th March 2013 Today is Mother’s Day in the United Knigdom when all good children who still have maternal relatives present flowers or some such and do their diligence. Personally we love it, maybe because we are lucky and have great mothers, all of them, great grandmothers/nanas, all of them, and a great-nan who…

  • Kendal Food Fair

    Sunday, 3rd March 2013 The Annual Kendal Food Fair was on at the weekend which meant a short bounce into Cumbria to visit the wonderful town and taste some of the best that Cumbria and Northern Lancaster has to offer. Elliott was a little under the weather this weekend and Sunday was the point of…