Saturday 14th December 2024 Nice weather and no plans made for a great chance to head to the coast. Decided to go somewhere new and ended up heading to Old Harry Rocks in Dorset. A fairly uneventful, if not slow, drive and we parked up (unexpected free National Trust parking) Read more
Sunday 12th July 2024 A breezy ferry ride whisked us over for a 7km walk full of sea views, woodland trails, and wildlife spotting (though the red squirrels were clearly off duty). We discovered the world’s comfiest tree seat for a well-earned rest before heading to the café for cake, Read more
Saturday 11th March 2023 Vikki was feeling down after hearing her surgery was cancelled so we decided on a last minute day trip to somewhere new and that place was Henley-on-Thames. A fun day of pub lunch (where we very sneakily managed to get a table) with very yummy pudding Read more
Sunday 6th November 2022 What started off as an early afternoon booking for the Crystal Maze experience in London morphed into a very long busy day in London! A couple of days before going Vikki decided to book the Up At the O2 climb experience voucher which needed to be Read more
Saturday 26th March 2022 Finally a beautiful, sunny, warm Saturday…can only mean one thing – wash, wax, polish the blue car and head to the coast! It was an uneventful and direct drive to get us there, with missed turns or detours…hmmm can’t help but wonder if was it a Read more
Saturday 17th July 2021 When we booked the Tough Mudder it seemed so far away, 11 weeks was plenty of time to prepare…but all of a sudden the day was here and we were up early preparing to go. The weather had been so rubbish for weeks but it decided Read more
Wednesday 1st January 2020 A fun evening with friends, children, sparklers, homemade pizza, dice rolling sweetie games and lots of laughs to finish off 2019 and bring in the new year. We headed off to Southsea beach for the afternoon to blow away the cobwebs (and keep us awake after Read more
Sunday 4th August 2019 Sian, Adie and the boys were visiting so off we went indoor karting. A first for Vikki and considering she wasn’t well she didn’t do too badly. Steve came first overall out of the group of 10 who were racing and Vikki came a rather respectable Read more
Saturday 20th July 2019 A tree top adventure with Go Ape in Alice Holt Forest. 5 different sections of varying climbs, balances, Rambo swings, cargo nets and zip lines…(well 4 really as the first one barely counted). Some parts easy, others less than graceful and we both did our fair Read more