Category: Family

  • Finding Morph

    We set off for London on the 07:55 train and spent the day wandering London looking for Morph. Well, 56 Morphs to be precise. This was a special trail to celebrate the plasticine model. This is a picture of the first Morph on the trail along with Susan. As you can see it was raining…

  • How many Blackcurrants?

    How many Blackcurrants?

    Susan has been watching the Blackcurrants turn black over the last week or so. Picking a time to harvest them is a balance between waiting for them to become ripe and harvesting them before the birds do. Today was the day. Harvest – Wash – Top and Tail – Freeze. Oh and of course, count!…

  • Chair fit for a King

    Chair fit for a King

    Back in October 2020 we visited Dover Castle and had a great time wandering around discovering many things. Some of the rooms in The Great Tower were decorated, equipped and reserved for the King’s visits. In one room was this magnificent coloured chair. This impressed Susan at the time, so much so that when we…

  • Intrepid Forest Explorers

    Intrepid Forest Explorers

    This was a family adventure into the forest on two wheels – self balancing two wheels that is! Here’s Ruby, Charlie, Susan and Charles taking time out from our Segway trip through Sherwood Pines Forest. We’d booked an hour’s session of Forest Segway and, after a few minutes training, we were led through forest trails,…

  • Fruit Harvest

    Fruit Harvest

    It’s a while since we’ve had a post – this seemed worthy or a comment or two. Here’s Susan straight from the garden along with a bumper crop of gooseberries. We’ve been enjoying fresh and tasty fruit straight from the garden for a while now – Strawberries, Rhubarb, Blackcurrants and Gooseberries. Even with our appetite…

  • Spring Outing

    Our first outing now that Lockdown has eased slightly was to Kedleston Hall near Derby. We’d recently joined the National Trust to give us some places to visit over the next few months and this was the first one. It’s a country house with parkland around it. It has the usual open views from the…

  • Ancestry Snippet

    One of the things I’ve been doing during lockdown is to research family history. Every now and then something pops up that generates a smile or an interest. This is one. This is a picture of Mrs Westowby’s Almshouses in Keldgate, Beverley. It popped up as a residence for Hannah Twiddle in the 1891 and…

  • Kelly’s cheery painted shells.

    Kelly had heard Nigel mentioning about a local lady leaving brightly painted objects to brighten people’s days. She thought that this was a great idea and decided to do this herself. OK, so the first thing to do was to find some shells and then to paint them. Here are Kelly and Shakira in Ingoldmells…

  • Watery Trent Walk

    We thought we’d be fine this time. We’d set off with the idea of walking a little further. Down the Erewash Canal to the River Trent, along the river bank to the Cranfield Canal, and then back home up Pasture Lane. Well … We’d set off early to avoid meeting too many people and we’d…

  • COVID Action

    It’s strange what you find to write about nowadays – he’s a couple of COVID related comments of the last few days. A letter from the NHS – what could that be? It turned out to be a COVID testing kit. We’d never been part of a national survey before and often wondered how people…