If at any point you have driven between Clear Water and Orlando in Florida, you may well have spotted the rather retro looking sign for the Mermaid Park Weeki Wachee at the side of the road – it’s quite hard to miss. Back in the fifties, this park was one of the most popular tourist […]
Sunday Photo – Light at the Water’s Edge
Not so exotic Southampton doing a really good job of emulating Scandinavian light typical of this time of year. Photo taken whilst my smallest boy was looking for sharks(!!)…
Owloween at the Hawk Conservancy
I have always loved Halloween. From my earliest memories of dressing up for spooky school discos (typically as a witches cat for some reason!) to exploring Halloween in various other countries and cultures (I can highly recommend a Tivoli Halloween in Copenhagen, but Halloween in New York is really something!)… By the looks of things, […]
Sunday Photo – Off into the Distance
That moment when you suddenly realise you are going to have to run down the hill after your child that is now taking off into the distance…
A Day With the Dinosaurs – Natural History Museum London
An interlude in the write up of our American travels… The smallest person in the house has been somewhat obsessed with dinosaurs these past few months. In the run-up to his birthday, he has frequently requested the impossible – a pet dinosaur. So, I thought it might be an idea to visit the Natural History […]
Sunday Photo – Autumn Colours
Loved this triplet tree at Danebury Ring yesterday. If you look closely, the trunks of two of them are hugging, and as for the canopy… I don’t think a tree could do better at Autumn colours if it tried…
Alligator Territory – Circle B Bar Reserve Lakeland Florida
Although we knew we were visiting Florida in the rainy season, it got to a point where one day we left our older two to be thoroughly spoilt by their Grandparents, got in the car and literally drove until we found the sun. It happened to be hiding in Lakeland, some two hours away. After […]
Sunday Photo – Museum of the Moon
Museum of the Moon at the Natural History Museum yesterday…
Glazer Children’s Museum – Tampa
One particularly wet and wild Floridian day, we headed to one of Tampa’s best attractions for small children – The Glazer Museum. Having visited before, our older two were able to show their little brother around, and introduce him to the best bits they remembered (although he wasn’t interviewed for a news channel like they […]
Sunday Photo – Harvest Help
I love this time of year, so does my mini harvest helper. We are slowly putting our veg garden to bed for winter, but not before gathering in our harvest of courgettes, apples, beetroot, beans, one reasonably sized pumpkin, loads of blackcurrants (swimming in gin right now), raspberries, and garlic. It wasn’t all a success, […]