The subject of my Sunday Photo a couple of weeks back – The World’s Longest Tree Top Walk, or the rather tongue twisting Der Baumwipfelpfad as it’s known here… I had hoped to mention it before now, but sometimes life gets in the way – plus we have been busy gallivanting before school started – but […]
Travel
Urban Ponies – Riding in Bushy Park
A final post from our time at home. I couldn’t not mention the following… A scene from Thelwell? Almost! The Seven Year Old’s first experience of pony riding, thanks to my sister arranging a lesson for her with Park Lane Riding Stables. As I have probably mentioned countless times, we lived in and around this […]
Meeting Henry… (a trip to Hampton Court Palace)
A confession. Once upon a time, we lived just across a park and around the corner from a Palace. Not just any old Palace, but Hampton Court Palace. A Palace that I have never (up until now) been inside… A bit shameful really, considering we lived in that area for almost 15 years. Thankfully […]
A Circus Life… (Giffords Circus Review – UK)
To run away and join the Circus… The dream of so many, young and old. To get away from the desk job, the drudgery, the dog house… And if I ever had to consider running away to join them (if I wanted to of course) where would I go, and what would I be? Well […]
Old Haunts (Visiting Avebury Ring)
Many moons ago, when I was a small wee thing, we used to love visiting Avebury Ring, and went regularly enough for it to imprint itself on my brain as something of a special place… When I was a slightly larger (probably rather difficult) teenager, I used to also visit regularly, to get away from […]