Category: Days Out

  • Go Ape!

    Ever since she first saw the Go Ape zip wire at Wendover Woods Maddie has been desperate to give it a go. Sadly you had to be over 10 to give it a go. Until now that is, at the Elveden Forest version of Go Ape there is a junior course which has all the…

  • Bloody hell the suns out!

    So finally the sun came out after what seems like the wettest drought ever and along with what seemed like half of St Albans we headed off to the splash zone in Verulamium park. Despite being very excited these places aren’t as much fun without a friend to play with and as Maddie got wetter…

  • First match of the season

    Been a busy summer down at Vicarage Road so we rocked up to see how new manager Zola and his team would play. Scraped a 1-0 win in extra time so kudos to Maddie for keeping still and not complaining in what was a pretty boring game. Couple of highlights Vydra looks good upfront and…

  • 6th birthday city slickers

    Celebrating her birthday for the second time – this time actually on her birthday Maddie and her friend Anabel went horse (pony) riding at the local stables. They were both absolute naturals, now I’m sure that’s partly down to the well trained horses who probably do this every day but even so, by the end…

  • Daddy & Maddie do London!

    So we had a proper outing today up in London, the London Eye and the London Aquarium complete with sharks. With all this to look forward to it was somewhat of a disappointment that Maddie was more interested in the various buskers lining the embankment doing a poor imitations of various characters (Minnie Mouse amongst…

  • Poppy adventure

    Having taken some nice pictures when the bluebells were out I decided to try and hunt out some poppies. This wasn’t the easiest task as mostly all I could find was the odd one or two. We heard on the grapevine of a field near Chesham that was “amazing” so one evening we set out…

  • Peppa Pig World

    Not sure how much longer I will keep this blog going. Maddie is going to be 5 soon and I can already see it becoming a bit redundant with the rise and rise of Facebook. (Frankly I’m surprised I’ve kept it going this long!) That said, this was always meant to be an archive to…

  • Sandbanks

    A day at the beach – wow how hot has it been for this time of the year. Drove down to the south coast to one of the most expensive real estate areas in the country – Sandbanks. Seemed nice enough but sooooo expensive, not exactly value for money but great if you like living…

  • Long Hot Easter

    The Easter weekend has been so hot, had a great day today playing with Ryan and Darcy. Turned into a spontaneous bar-b-que which was great.

  • Remember, remember…

    the 5th of November, or actually this year the 6th. For that was the date of the annual St Albans fireworks display. Maddies friend Anabel and her Dad Kevin accompanied us with Mette crying off (can’t believe she doesn’t like fireworks!). Happily Maddie seems to like fireworks as much as me and thanks to kevin…