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Time to retyre*
We told the kids that we were going on an adventure this morning and how right we were… It was 8:25 a.m. And we were in heavy (ish) traffic on the M6 southbound just past junction 23, doing between seventy and eighty overtaking traffic, when I heard a noise from the front of the car…
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Trotter’s World
17th February 2013 On Sunday we decided to try one of the wildlife parks in Cumbria that we had not yet visited, so we took the longer drive to the West Cumbrian area near Keswick and Trotter’s World. This is a 25 acre park in a beautiful part of the country, just the side of the…
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Certificate
Leigh passed her degree late last year but it felt a little more official today as he received her certificate through the post. So she is now a scientist, expect her to use the XKCD line mercilessly in the future. Her graduation ceremony will be in Edinburgh in April.
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Chinese New Year
10th February 2013 It was Chinese New Year today, we originally wanted to stay close to home as Lancaster has, in the past, placed events on the Chinese New Year. This year there seemed to be a lack of any information on the websites as to anything occurring, so we decided to go further afield.…
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Beautiful Brockhole
Saturday 2nd February Today we went for a drive to the Lake District once more. It was predicted to be a clear, if crisp, day and the first day that Leigh has felt well enough to walk a little since being in hospital with pneumonia. Fearing that if we went too far she would get…
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Mum is in Hospital
Sickness Over the last couple of weeks Leigh has had a really bad cold, it totally knocked her from her feet and she had no energy or appetite. She took the week away from work, which is rare for her, and tried to rest as much as possible. A Reprieve? This week her cold had…
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Spooky Sheep
Sunday, 6th January 2013 We went for a walk in the early morning on Sunday, the weather was mild for January and as wet as usual so a fine mist was present everywhere. We saw some sheep in a field and Ben had already declared the day to be ‘spooky’ so these were Spooky Sheep.
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Blackpool 3rd January
The kids had a massive break over Christmas but Leigh and I had to continue working so we shared the duties of looking after the children between us with the always grateful help of Grandma Linda. On the Thursday I decided to take them both to Blackpool so we could go into the Aquarium and…
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Grasmere, 1st January 2013
Like much of the country, I presume, our New Year got off to a rather slack start. Thankfully the kids seemed to have inhereted some of the inertia, perhaps from osmosis as they were in bed on time, and rose late. In the case of Elliott he was happy to stay in bed with daddy…
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Elliott’s First Shoes
31st January Today Elliott and Daddy went to the shoe shop to have Elliott measured for his first shoes. As usual Markie had quite a lot of opinions on how they should look and feel. because they were first shows, predominantly for crawling to first steps, they needed to be from a select range. The…