We all know the phrase “There’s no bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.” Well with this in mind on Saturday (a dry but cold day), I decided we needed to get out of the house for a few hours. We wrapped up warm and headed off to Tittesworth water, near Leek (more information can be found […]
Category Archives: Days out & UK travel
We love having fun packed family days out as well as UK holidays. Here you’ll my recommendations for the best places to visit with your family across the UK. We’re based in the North West so I have a lot of content for this area but also other areas of the UK from our travels.
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Jan
Jan
If you’re looking for a pram-friendly walk in the Lake District, then look no further than Tarn Hows. We first discovered Tarn Hows before we had children. We parked near Coniston and walked up to Tarn Hows, followed the circular walk around it and then walked back down. It stuck in my mind as somewhere to […]
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Dec
Dec
Yesterday we took a trip to Salford quays to see Lightwaves 2016. This is a light installation which includes some of Blackpool illuminations (a very small selection). This Heartbeat installation only works if you place a hand on a sensor, hold hands with someone and they put their hand on the opposite sensor. The lights […]
05
Dec
Dec
We are all be/are ill recently so we haven’t been out and about much as I’d like. So today I am sharing with you somewhere we visited in October and if we lived nearer we would definitely visit in the run-up to Christmas. Grizedale forest is one of my favourite pram-friendly walks Lake District. Grizedale […]
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Nov
Nov
We have been visiting the lake district in October, most years, for a good few years now. Before we had Children we would stay in bed and breakfasts in Ambleside or Keswick. We once even camped in pods near Windermere (very cold in October). Since the ladybird was born we have been staying in self-catering […]
A few weeks back we took a trip to Coombes valley, a RSPB reserve in Staffordshire. It’s somewhere we’ve been meaning to visit for a long time. So long that I can no longer remember how I heard about it. The main reason we visited was for the play trail which I thought my edlest […]
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Feb
Feb
One very cold Sunday morning a few weeks back we decided to take a drive over to Crosby beach and see Antony Gormley’s Another space. This is an installation of iron men sculptures on the beach. I’d been suggesting we visit for what feels like forever but we never got round to it. This particular […]
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Aug
Aug
Last weekend we spent 3 amazing days camping at our first family festival. We attended the Just So festival at the Rode Hall Estate in Cheshire. I’m not sure when I first heard of Just So, probably when I started reading parenting blogs when I was pregnant, 3 years ago but ever since I have […]
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Aug
Aug
A couple of weeks back we had a weekend camping in LLandudno. This was F’s first camping trip. We stayed on a fantastic site near Llandudno called Plas farm and considering the summer we have had, the weather wasn’t too bad. We had some showers, some sunny spells but lots of wind! The campsite was […]
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Jul
Jul
The ladybird is fascinated by airplanes at the moment. We are about 20 minutes from Manchester airport, so not surprisingly we spot a good number flying over our house when we are in the garden. The ladybird always points them out and shouts aeroplane excitedly. We also pretend to be aeroplanes, running round the garden […]