On a family adventure
On a family adventure
Our nearest train station is actually a steam railway station called the East Lancashire Railway. It runs a local service and offers some wonderful experiences for young and old alike. Running from Bury to Rawtenstall you can take a leisurely…
On our recent backpacking trip my husband was keen to incorporate a trip to Stonehenge near Salisbury. The trip turned out to be pretty hard going and to be honest I would’ve preferred to stay an extra night at our…
There’s a new kind of festival in town this weekend and it’s one that will attract the attention of thousands of locals in Manchester. Soccerex are bringing their urban football festival to The Old Granada Studios in Manchester this weekend,…
It’s the end of the school summer holidays and I am done in! Our last week was a busy one as usual; this is what we got up to… We Visited: Venture Caravan Park We spent our last weekend of…
Today is August 26th. The sun has been shining (yes, even here up North) and we made a snowman with real snow. Disney on Ice is coming back to the Manchester Arena this October and we have been gearing up…
It’s been a fairly busy summer for us this year. Now the boys are both in school we’ve tried to pack as much as possible into the six weeks we get to spend together over the summer months. I should…
How do you stay waterproof when you’re backpacking in the UK? Backpacking with a young family requires you to have the right equipment for the job, and with British weather being so unpredictable we needed great outerwear for the boys.…
This summer we’ve been over to Burscough in Lancashire to spend the day at Martin Mere, one of nine wetland centres around the country. British summer isn’t always overly kind to us, so when we do get half decent days its…
In my infinite wisdom I decided that taking the boys backpacking around the south coast of the UK this summer would be an absolutely fantastic idea. It would be an amazing experience for them, travelling without the car and carrying…
We’ve done a series of reviews lately on Interplay’s My Living World range, and our latest is Ant World. We enjoyed Worm World and Rowan’s entire class were able to benefit from the Butterfly World kit we sent into school.…