Yes, Bures well Wissington in fact which is just 8 miles away in the Stour Valley. We found an amazing campsite called Rushbanks Farm in a lovely location right next to the river. We went with Hatty, lewis, Liane and Livvy. We had a lovely evening playing Cricket and cooking on a real fire, yes, Continue reading

Hatty and I took the kids to Duxford Imperial War Museum for the day. It was fantastic, it was so good we weren’t able to do it all in a day. The Airspace section was particularly good showing the history and science of aviation with loads for the kids to do. We also got to Continue reading

Had a great night camping watching bats, the stars and munching teacakes and biscuits. And then in the morning we messed around taking selfies! Continue reading

Emma and I went for a day out at Ickworth. They had a fairy Craft day so Emma was able to make a crown.. Conquer the monkey bars.. And climb a pole. Continue reading

We went up to Chalkney Woods again, cooked lunch and put up a swing which Emma played on for hours and hours…. she definitely loves a swing! Continue reading

Emma and I held a snail race and my snail “slowcoach” was rubbish winning just one of the seven races, Emma’s “Turbo” was the champion. This was Slowcoach’s one and only win as you can see it had to go to a photo finish. I got a bit wrapped in the moment! So did Emma Continue reading

Drove down to Gunpowder Park near Waltham Abbey and cycled the 26 mile round trip to the Olympic Park and back. The park is pretty good although we didn’t see all of it as it took us quite a while to get there. Emma did really well, although K was a nervous wreck worrying that Continue reading

I drove the car to Chappel and cycled back and then we all did the walk to Chappel. So nice to do these walks that K & I used to do before Emma was born. Continue reading

Really enjoyed doing the Archery at the Festival Would like to do more of this. Continue reading

I’ve got loads of blogging to catch up on so here goes…. Back on the 25th July we went for a weekend of camping near Warwick. Stopping at Charlecote Park on the way. Its so cool that these days the National Trust provide lots of stuff for the kids to do such as bouncing on Continue reading

Great track from Jez and Andy Williams formerly of Doves Continue reading

ALZ-112 has wiped out most of the Human race and a growing population of Apes led by Caesar are flourishing until they are discovered by a small group of surviving Humans who are hoping to get a Hydro- electric dam working again to power there community in the City. Caesar allows them to continue but Continue reading

Lands on feet after being hit head on by a car https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djrHbre2IeQ Continue reading

A wee trip upto Scotland in October. The Corky’s are in another house just up the road so should be a good week. Decided to fly up though, We didn’t fancy the drive up, its over 500 miles and the flights were only £140! We looked at getting the Caledonian sleeper train up there, I’ve Continue reading

Fascinating article on the BBC about driverless cars. Particularly the short video about what technology is already available. Continue reading

Hasn’t it been a great summer so far? We’ve had lots of barbies and drank lots of wine. its been awesome. This week has been really hot getting over 30°c. So hot in fact that after I cycled home last night I just dived fully clothed into the paddling pool with Emma and Livvy – Continue reading

Had a great time at the Bowl last night. Pearl Jam played an amazing set for just over 3 hours. The crowd were right up for it, particularly as they played “black” really early in the set, which must have included well over 30 songs. To see the band play live just blew us away, Continue reading

Yesterday we went to The Open Squares event in London. 200 gardens take part each year. There is a real variety – from private squares to contemporary roof gardens including prisons, museums, schools and allotments. This is the first year we have been so we chose to do the private Squares in Kensington. It was Continue reading

Just catching up on blogging… last weekend the Caples came over. Al cycled here, doing 205 miles in a day! I don’t know how he does it but he is well on his way to being ready to do the 24 hour London to Paris in early July. Saturday night, we had a barbie and Continue reading

We spent the final two nights of our holiday in Salzburg. A very historic city, in a beautiful location, which was also the place where the “Sound of Music” was filmed. We visited the Stiegel Brewery.. Then we went on the “sound of Music Tour” with Fräulein Maria´s Bicycle Tours which was fantastic. A gorgeous Continue reading

Yesterday we had a fantastic ride along part of the Salzkammergut Trail in between Obertraun and Bad Aussee. I’m not sure how far we went but Emma did really well on the hills. It’s a beautiful route and I would love to return and do the whole 345 km route. Cycling alongside the River Traun. Continue reading

We visited the ice caves on Friday. It was much better than I thought it was going to be it really is an incredible sight to see. Unfortunately I couldn’t take many pics but there is some here. I took this while we were waiting to go in as you can see it was proper Continue reading

Had a very soggy walk in and around Obertraun on Wednesday. It rained the entire time but we were all kitted up so it was ok. Emma was very happy to spot 176 snails, 2 frogs, 60 slugs, a fire salamander and an ants nest in a tree. Continue reading

Had a great day at the salt mine at Halstatt today. It was really interesting and the slide was fantastic! Continue reading

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The shore of hallstatter See Continue reading

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Went with Rich and Carolyn to see JG play the Arts Centre in Colchester last night. It was a great gig he did most of his new album and some Doves tracks. He was supported by The Tea Street Band who were also really good. Picked these pics up from JG’s twitter: Crowd stage invasion! Continue reading

I just had a chat and shook hands with Jimi Goodwin! Continue reading