Equestrian Fun Rides and Sponsored Rides Diary UK

Jane has just updated the Riding Diary with a new section on equstrian fun rides:
FUN RIDES, SPONSORED RIDES, PLEASURE RIDES ALL of the horse fun rides, sponsored rides and pleasure rides on ONE PAGE!
Looking for a Fun Ride?Take a look at the list below! The Fun Rides below are shown in date order – just click [...]

Going To Spain? I Wish!

Looking forward to going back to Spain soon. We have a little apartment there and whilst surfing around for Spanish lessons last year I came upon Rocket Spanish, which I found brilliant. A bit American but just so easy to follow.
I have a complete mental block when it comes to learning languages (bottom of the [...]

Altitude excitement

Benjamin was in a state of elevated excitement yesterday about his new cabin bed.
This is a bed with outrageously long legs and a big space underneath for storage or playing.
Benjamin has been playing ships since it was put up in the late afternoon and spent his first high level night with his nose almost touching [...]

Old age and cracks in the wall

I turned 50 on Wednesday, which was a relief. The day was gentle and delightful. Jane’s mother took Jane and me for a nice lunch at Hunters Hall, then a birthday tea with Benjamin and candle blowing, plus a lovely pile of birthday presents that Benjamin opened with relish!
In the evening Jane took me to [...]

Benjamin and I have been watching Dr Who all week. A little ritual at 7pm when we settle down to be frightened and discuss special effects!
Benjamin, like a generation or two before him, hides when the monsters arrive. And the Cybermen and Daleks are just as scary now as they were back in the ’60s! [...]

It was a doddle!

We went camping despite gloomy forecasts. The weather was tame and we enjoyed blissful sunshine most of the time. Friday and a bit of Saturday in Wells were grey and a bit drizzly in the morning with a couple of heavy showers at night and there was a tiny bit of heavy breeze to welcome [...]

And we are meant to be camping in this?

We are all packed and just about ready to go. The sun is shining brightly. However the weather forecast looks awful. The map is RED all over. Bearing in mind this is Benjamin’s first camping trip ever we are wondering how much fun it will be with the tent in rags and us being battered [...]

Now the weather is beastly….

…lets go camping!
We are getting ready for our first camping trip. Benjamin is as keen as mustard and I have to admit to being rather excited too. It’s been years since I last slept in a tent and the intervening years have faded the memories of discomfort and sleep deprivation that accompany such silly behaviour.
The new [...]

Pond is a strange colour

The pond is a funny colour and yet it is much clearer than ever before.
Last year the pond was in a dreadful state. A star plant I’d brought years before had completely taken over and choked the pond. It was Hannah who spotted the fish gasping and when I went to look a couple of [...]

Left at home to mind the shop…

Jane & Benjamin have just whizzed off to Birmingham for the night. In the morning they’ll be heading off to Disneyland Paris for, I hope, a very jolly week of fun.
I’m staying put to mind the business (and because I’m a bit of a bore about theme parks…).
Jane couldn’t find the hotel and spent an [...]