Imagine you had a fabulous sea view and open spaces to play and run. Coupled with an outside circuit training facility with no gym fees. Open all hours and open to all. (except dogs) If you are anything like my family, then there is every chance that you would use […]
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Busy bees in the garden
I work from home. This calls for a balancing act during school holidays. When the children were younger, I’d book them in with our wonderful childminder for a few days. As they got older, they wanted to be home instead. Playing with their toys. They have always been good at […]
Read moreBooks and dens
My favourite activities are the ones where the children work as a team and initiate it all by themselves. Den making seems to lend to this enormously. I walked out into an area of the garden to find that two of them had raided my bamboo canes and garden twine. […]
Read moreLet’s fly a kite …. or three
We have a summer list of things that we would like to do this holiday. Everyone has written their own ideas down on the sheet. Only constraints were that the activity had to be possible and that everyone in the family could do it. There are some old favourites, but […]
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