River has been enjoying playing rounders recently. She played on the team last spring as well, but this year she is the bowler. In baseball terms, that means she is the pitcher.
They use these tiny little bats.
River’s coach mentioned to me recently how much they will miss having her on the team next year. We [...]
It is now well into June and there are still things from April that I haven’t posted about. April was a month of amazing weather and we spent a lot of time outside enjoying the sunshine. According to the Met Office, it was the third warmest April on record since 1914.
The hammock came out of [...]
We picked Tui and Karen up from the airport and have been cruising along the canal for a while now. We just moored and are about to walk into Bath.
Happy birthday, Grana! Many happy returms of the day!
Molly’s parents came to visit while the kids were on holiday. It was really nice to see them.
Among other things, we went to Chatsworth House, the home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and a spectacular estate. We’ve been meaning to visit for a while, so it was nice to have a chance to [...]
Earlier this week, I went for a walk along along Baslow Edge, Birchen Edge and Gardom Edge, following the interface between the gritstone ridges and moorland. It is beautiful country.
I parked just up the hill from Curbar village and soon found myself on Baslow Edge where there was an amazing view of Curbar Edge and [...]
We’ve had a pretty good run on nice weather recently and it was a beautiful, sunny day again today. We spent a good portion of our time gardening: cleaning out beds from last year and planting some new flowers.
First, we took a trip down the street to the nursery. River’s friend Alex came along for [...]
We have had some nice spring weather recently and I decided to go exploring. I’d read about Froggatt Edge in the Peak District as a good spot for climbing. I found a spot to park on the side of the road and wandered through the forest and up the hillside until I came to the [...]
Not too long ago, we went for a nice walk in the Peak District from the village of Hartington to Pilsbury. Hartington is a bucolic spot, famous as the home of the oldest continually operating creamery in England and source of about a quarter of the world supply of stilton cheese. It is a beautiful [...]
We recently celebrated the seventh anniversary of Sage’s birth.
We spent the day in London. We took the underground into Picadilly Circus and hopped on one of the tourist buses. We’ve been to London a handful of times now, but we’ve stayed underground and popped up at our destination like some burrowing mammal. It was fun [...]
We had a bit of snow fall this morning. It was very exciting!
The kids ran out to play in it, drawing pictures and eating it. I got hit with a snowball or two on the way to the car.
The roads seemed fine to me, but traffic was atrocious. There may [...]
