andrew on September 16th, 2008

We spent last weekend camping at a festival near Ashbourne, just into the southern end of the Peak District.  Although it has dried up significantly from the previous weeks flooding, it had been raining fairly regularly last week and the festival was inundated with mud.  Someone commented that you can tell how good a festival [...]

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andrew on June 9th, 2008

We spent a beautiful weekend camping in the Peak District near Hartington. The weather was perfect and we enjoyed some fine company in gorgeous surroundings.
The kids were ready to go before we finished packing and spent some time on the swings waiting for us.

It isn’t particularly far to Hartington from Derby, but the [...]

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andrew on May 5th, 2008

Molly went to the first meeting of the South Derbyshire Knitting Group that she helped to organized through Ravelry. There were nine knitters there, including her and River, and apparently it went off well. They are planning to meet bi-monthly in the future. Sage was inspired to take up finger-knitting with a [...]

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andrew on September 22nd, 2007

I love this video and these memories from our camping trip to Cape Cod this past summer.  Singing around the campfire is one of my favorite things in the whole world.  This was one of the songs we did with our family chorus.  What a brilliant trip!

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