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High Pressure sitting over us at the moment so cold cold nights with lovely frosty mornings. On Saturday evening we went to Lucy & Daves and sat around the campfire drinking mulled wine, eating chestnuts and mince pies. A great evening, good company and the stars were amazing! Sunday, we just mooched after an early… Continue reading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThCr0PsyuA&feature=youtu.be I’ve only just heard of this – Amazing! Continue reading

No, thankfully hes not dead – just amazing. Continue reading

Acer in our garden. Continue reading

I finished Emma’s quilt just in time for her birthday.  Continue reading

If you haven’t seen this yet then you must watch it. Its probably the best box set I’ve watched since Breaking Bad. Its a remake of the BBC Series “Criminal Justice” (Which I haven’t seen) What makes this story so good are the characters who are so interesting and non-cliche particularly John Turturro as the… Continue reading

Emma is 9 next week and this year we decided to have a treasure hunt. The girls were woodland elves searching for the wizards treasure. They loved it despite the really damp weather. After succesfully finding the Wizards treasure we returned home for Hot chocolate, goodies and cake! Continue reading

For My birthday, my really rather super wife bought me a Falconry experience at Lavenham Falconry. It was really good, I got to meet and fly Treacle the Harris Hawk, and Gizmo the Barn Owl. It was fantastic , so cool to be up close with these wonderful birds. “Treacle” the Harris Hawk All Photography… Continue reading

For My birthday, my really rather super wife bought me a Falconry experience at Lavenham Falconry. It was really good, I got to meet and fly Treacle the Harris Hawk, and Gizmo the Barn Owl. It was fantastic , so cool to be up close with these wonderful birds. “Treacle” the Harris Hawk All Photography… Continue reading

Had a lovely Autumnal week in sunny Derbyshire at the Old Post Office in Bolehill near Wirkington. We cycled a lovely route which included part of the High Peak trail and Carsington Water, it was 22 miles with nearly 2000 ft of ascent. So nice to have some hills! A well earned Buttie! Did some… Continue reading

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Just made my first granola! Really easy and no raisins!!!!! Looks good, hope it tastes good, it will save me a fortune???? Continue reading

Had a lovely afternoon out for Shaun’s birthday today. Went to Keresy for yummy pub lunch then gorgeous autumny walk. I had booked a morning for Shaun to fly some birds of prey at Lavenham but rain stopped play?? So we have to reschedule.   Continue reading

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Took this selfie on a recent walk around Polstead. Continue reading

Took Emma and Jess for a bike ride and some kite flying this afternoon – made me happy! Continue reading

On Sunday we went the New Scientist live event at the Excel Centre in East London. We had a fantastic day, seeing the Bloodhound SSC a supersonic car which hopefully is going set a new land speed record of 1000mph, the new Tesla car, Virtual reality headsets, we snacked on bugs at the pestaurant (yummy!),… Continue reading

Over the last 3 days and two nights I cycled up to the North Norfolk coast meeting and following the Peddars way up to the coast and returning via Kings Lynn and Cambridge. The route was mainly on country roads but about 20 or 30 miles was off road on byways. I was using panniers… Continue reading

Emma displaying her “Achievement in Writing” Award she received at school. Well Done Love!! X Continue reading

This weekend, K held her Open Gardens Event. 15 gardens were open raising over a £1000 for various charities. Well done K! Our waitresses Emma and Jess all ready to sell cake, tea or strawberries & cream! We had a barbie after the Open Gardens and Liane brought over this amazing cake its a four… Continue reading

Emma’s wonderful head teacher closed the school for a long weekend so we hired a cottage in Winterton, Norfolk. It was a lovely place, less than 5 minutes walk from the beach. On the way up on Friday we stopped near Wroxham and cycled the Bure Valley Railway path which was very good. Although, we… Continue reading

Emma’s been learning about Egypt and was tasked with producing a project about this topic. She decided to do Tutankhamun’s Family tree and to display it in the form of a stop motion video. I thought I would share this with you as she has worked exceedingly hard creating the video, backdrop, script and researching… Continue reading

Just had a fantastic week at The Wagon House in the Wye Valley. The weather was typical May weather, sunny, with a cool breeze which was lovely. We also went cycling in the Forest of Dean, climbed Skirrid Fawr near Abergavenny, and went canoeing on the Wye which was absolutely brilliant, beautiful day and we… Continue reading

Spent the weekend getting the site clear and ready for Emma’s Trampoline and we also went crazy and ordered some new Garden furniture. All we need now is sunshine…. Continue reading

Taking the proper precautions when slicing Onions! Continue reading

Taking the proper precautions when slicing Onions! Continue reading

Hatty & Lewis popped over for a weekend while Al was on a 240 mile bike ride up T’north (nutter). Hatty’s 40 soon so it was a bit of a pre-birthday celebration before they head stateside. We had a Barbie on Saturday eve with a large Malteser cake and on Sunday we went for a… Continue reading

Had a fantastic camping weekend at Alde Garden Near Saxmundham. Its a fantastic campsite, really quirky with a great pub, a campfire, and a very well equipped kitchen area, what more could you ask for? We arrived on Saturday afternoon, so after we pitched up, we spent the evening in the pub. Its such a… Continue reading

Had a really nice day in Hampstead on Sunday. Its one of my favourite parts of London, lovely Victorian and Georgian houses and lots of quaint little back streets. We did a really good walk from Stephen Millars “London’s Hidden walks”finishing on Parliament Hill (above) and had an amazing lunch in “The Holly Bush”Lurvely! We… Continue reading