When we were visiting Drayton Manor Park and Zoo last time, we were invited to visit the newly refurbished The Haunting attraction – and our boys, whilst quite terrified for the first five minutes, absolutely loved it.
If you enjoy a good scare and you’ve visiting the park, make sure you take a tour and see if you can find any evidence of paranormal activity, like Jensen did!
You can pop see a little video of our experience over on our YouTube channel!
When we awoke on our third day of the holiday, we knew just where we were headed – Folly Farm. It had been recommended to us by so many local people before we set off for our holiday and we were so excited to set off. Looking back – even as we left the Farm,…
This term at school, Jensen’s topic is “Once Upon A Castle” – which is amazing for us as a family because this summer we spent time at one of the most beautiful we’ve been to, Bodiam Castle. We were invited as ambassadors of Visit 1066 Country, and very excited to be exploring new territory! Bodiam…
Last week the Jones family decided to take a day out to go walking in the woods. I’ve loved to do this since I was a child and we used to go conker hunting at this time of year, and given our location in the South of England, we are positively spoiled for chioce when…
Last week, Dadda decided to take a day off so that we could have a trip out to our local (yet unvisited in the previous 10 years of us living here) wildlife centre. If we’re honest, we didn’t hold out much hope for it because most of the UK’s wildlife survives by secreting itself away…
After becoming the parents of two very beautiful boys [our huskies] in 2000, fireworks were removed from our annual calendar. Terrified of the huge bangs and whoops, and flashing lights in the sky, each Bonfire Night we sat at home cuddling our shaking Excalibur as he cowered in the kitchen or tried to flee to safety,…
Before I was struck with a case of the nasties, we managed to get some cousin time in at the Nature Centre in Birmingham. Sadly it really wasn’t all it used to be and so I’m putting every mother’s advice about when to speak into practice – but we did have fun seeing the lynx…