Category Archives: Fun

It was Kady’s birthday last week – she’s proper old now(!) – and for a treat I though I’d take her to the Hawk Conservancy Trust which is not too far from us http://www.hawk-conservancy.org/index.asp

She always comments when we’re out and about and she sees a Bird of Prey and I have to say it was a fantastic few hours and well worth a visit. As an added bonus Kady’s sister and nephew were able to join us!

Check out the photos, we’ll definitely be going back!

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Christmas was fantastic and I’m really gutted it’s over. If you’ve been following my blog you’ll know that we were forced to cancel various attempts at making plans due to the uncertainty over biopsies and chemo.

In the end we settled on a lovely quiet day spent with Kady’s family and it was great. We spent the morning opening presents, before going for a lovely crisp snowy walk at Longleat which was gorgeous and I can thoroughly recommend!

Lunch was amazing, how Kady’s Mum Trudy produces such a fantastic meal for so many people is beyond me but she does it. Then it was present time again, I feel really privileged to have been welcomed into such a generous, warm family.

In all it was a really relaxed nice day, exactly what we’d been hoping for. Perfect!

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Well who’d have thought it, what a great time I’ve had over the last week being introduced to the world of babies. I never thought I’d say it but I’ve loved it, they’re all so cute. Yeah yeah I know it’s easy to say that when you can hand them back and don’t have to do  the messy bits or sleepless nights, I can empathise a lot with the lack of sleep though at the moment.

It’s been fantastic and I’ve loved getting to know my nephew Callum more as well as meeting Ben, Emily and Zach properly, they’ve all been incredibly cute and very cool. What a privilege. Oh and of course it’s been great to catch up with their Mum’s too!

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Well I went on my second trip on a train which was slightly more interesting as it involved the hell of a trip across London. It was lovely to see my brother and his wife as well as my baby nephew. Had a nice trip out with my brother down to the river in Bedford which was cold but very picturesque!

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What can I say, we’d wanted to go for sometime, absolutely beautiful inside but then I am getting really old. Well worth a visit. Oh and it’s free, well it is if you don’t put anything in the contribution box… bad me.

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So we were in Bristol last weekend and thought we’d make the most of the opportunity to visit Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s SS Great Britain, the first ever metal hulled ship. I’m a bit of a history buff so had always wanted to see it. Kady and I had a good wander around, the only low point was when she ‘forced’ me to try on a Brunel style hat, check out the photo, I know she’ll give me a hard time if I don’t put it on here.

All in all an enjoyable trip out, 50% off with a military ID which was a bonus

http://www.ssgreatbritain.org/Home.aspx

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Few beers in Comfi Bar followed by a kebab from the ‘Hunger Hatch’, top night!

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Beautiful day for a wander around the ‘Stones’, I love the thought of all the history of this place.  Nice and bright but damn chilly! Had a lovely time and even managed to do the often forgotten ‘Woodhenge’ afterwards.

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