Check Out The Creatures In A Rock Pool
When I told the kids we’d be going rock pooling, this is the kind of thing I had in mind: As it turns out, however, either rock pools are the…Continue Reading →
Discover What’s In A Pond
It’s a little hard to find some frogspawn without discovering the other things in a pond. All things slimey and…
Catch A Falling Leaf
The end of the summer is coming, and pretending it’s not so doesn’t do anything to stop the impending doom…
Wave Jumping And Other Seafront Pastimes
I love the ocean. It is to me, human emotion in water form. It gives you calm, and beauty, and peace, serenity, power, anger… every human emotion, the ocean can…Continue Reading →
Five Reasons Kids Must Roll Down Hills
When I was studying to be a Rhythm Kids and Baby Massage instructor, I was surprised by a fact that…
Pooh Sticks Have A Special Place In My Heart
Pooh Sticks is a really special game to me. My mother loved Winnie the Pooh, and after our discovery of…
Making Daisy Chains Like Alice In Wonderland
I’d never really known that a daisy chain was a ‘thing’ until I came to England, and it was really only here that I understood what the ‘garland’ really was.…Continue Reading →
Lessons Learned From Climbing A Tree
I don’t climb trees. Actually, I don’t know that I ever have. It’s not that I was ever stopped from…
50 Things To Do Before You’re 11 And 3/4
A few years ago Ameli and I joined up with the 50 Things To Do Before You’re 11 and 3/4…
#50Things To Do Before You’re 11 and 3/4 – The National Trust
A few years ago the National Trust started this #50Things campaign, and we signed up for it. Ameli was only just 2 years old, so the first year we didn’t…Continue Reading →