This years Tour de France kicks of on 7th July. Running until Sunday July 29th 2018, the 105th Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,351 kilometres. The first Tour de France was staged in 1903. The plan was a five-stage race from 31 May to 5 July, […]
Who loves spring? I love winter but there is something really special about spring I think. Aside from the fact that it’s the season my hay fever rears its head – and anyone with hay fever will know that’s not much fun – it’s the season of new baby lambs, spring flowers and often a […]
We’ve been crafting with Bostik again this weekend. We decided to make bird puppets. First of all we drew a bird to cut out on card. Not the best bird perhaps but the boys didn’t like the idea of using a template, so we went with a freehand drawing. A quick google will pull up […]
Half Term might only just be over but the Easter holidays are just around the corner, with just a five week term to go. We do love Easter here and always do an Easter Egg Hunt. Over the years we’ve done some indoors and some outdoors depending on the weather that year. The outdoor ones […]
Are more or less people sending Christmas cards these days do you think? The number of people over the last few years that have said things like “we won’t be sending Christmas cards anymore, instead we will be donating to our favourite charity “, is quite significant. I think that is genuinely the case for […]
Halloween is just around the corner, so what better time than to get the craft stuff out. Halloween craft is limitless and there are so many amazing ideas on Pinterest these days you will be spoilt for choice. We decided to make something that would get used on Halloween, so we put together some trick […]
The children all love to do craft. Each time I set up the table for craft and get the crafting boxes out there is some serious excitement. I wish I felt as excited come tidy up time, but you can’t win them all can you? If I ask the children what they want to make, […]
I can’t believe how fast these summer holidays have gone. Is it me or have they just flown by. I still feel as if we have lots we want to do but not enough days left of the holidays to get these things done. As it won’t be long until the new term, we thought […]