Carefully honing our pirate skills, we went hunting for treasure on the banks of the Thames and in the chocolate shops of London. Under licence we had a look to see what can be seen at low tide with a … Continue reading
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The Small Isles
Worrybomb and friends went up to Scotland to explore the Small Isles. We stayed at Doune Knoydart on the Knoydart peninsula. We walked, scrambled, got nibbled on by midges, sailed, explored and ate wonderful things. We had incredible weather with sun every … Continue reading
Winchester Science Centre
T’up North
We had a few days up north. Brushing Max whilst avoiding Spencer nipping at socks Starters at the Orchard In Lancaster Gaol The room in the old gaol we tried to lock the tour guide in. Worrybomb2 Wind blown sand … Continue reading
Full Steam Ahead
Some of Great Grandads steam engines have come our way. We now have three traction engines and a static steam engine. We decided to fire a couple up. We ran the WILESCO D405 around the street. The Mamod ran okay, … Continue reading
Science
Earlier in the month, Worrybomb and I went to London and the Science Museum. She wanted to use her newly acquired Oyster Card and see the sights. We headed up on the underground, with much tapping in and out as … Continue reading
Flying Start
Happy New Year ! We got off to a flying start by rushing out on New Years Day to have a quick first flight of Worrybombs new kite. She got the hang of it very quickly as she did with … Continue reading
Paris is always a good idea
Worrybomb has been continuing her travels, this time to Paris ! It was our first time on the EuroStar and slightly odd to be eating lunch under the Channel at 300 km per hour. We spent 4 days in the … Continue reading
Rowing
We went back to the canal with Cousin S to have a go at rowing again. It was great fun zig-zagging across the canal 🙂
Mentioned in dispatches
Worrybombs adventure on the Isle of Wight was mentioned on the bikeovernights.org website The site is run by Adventure Cycling Association which by using crowd sourced articles promotes cycle travel and bicycle adventuring by sharing short overnight bicycle adventures of … Continue reading
Two go off to camp
So we have camped and cycled a few times, but never together. So after having read lots of Enid Blyton recently, we decided to go in search of adventure to the Isle of Wight. We packed up tents, sleeping bags and Flossie … Continue reading
The Romans are coming!
School is studying the Romans. As our local Roman town is a bit scarce of things, we headed to Bath ( Aquæ Sulis (“the waters of Sulis”)). We met up with her third cousin and family where we had a … Continue reading