We have visited the York National Railway Museum several times as a family, including taking our youngest as a baby and a toddler. We find that you always need to allow more time than you think to see and do everything or focus on a section such as the Station Hall and then return and see the Great Hall on a subsequent trip. We have…

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth”. Kahlil Gibran. Family life this week has definitely been less eventful than it was last week!   We have all enjoyed the Yorkshire sunshine which just makes such a difference to everything! It does however make me want to start spring cleaning when I see the dust and cobwebs that I have…

After another tiring week we were all ready to escape the Winter blues and weekend chores to regroup as a family.  Our family goals this year included more travel in the form of staycation mini breaks. Staying at a Swinton Bivouac Tree Lodge sounded just perfect for our second mini break of 2020.  As most of my readers know we love the outdoors and are not…

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth”. Kahlil Gibran. Family life this week has been eventful to say the least! We’ve had Florence catch a reasonable dose of chicken pox, bless her.  Finlay then had a skateboarding accident resulting in another break to his arm.  This time he had 2 breaks in his arm and so had an…

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth”. Kahlil Gibran.  Family life this week has been really good.  We started the week off still in London and ticked lots of sights off in Teddy’s eye spy book. It was so sweet to see him clutching his book and pen and getting all excited when he found another landmark.  …

Disclosure – We were gifted a family river roamer in exchange for an open and honest review. With several weeks of planning what we wanted to do and see whilst on our family mini break to London, we came up with an itinerary with our kids that included the Thames Clipper. We felt it was sensible and achievable as a family of 6 to see…