Petticoats, scooters and dslr. #Countrykids #springcarnival

Taking my girls out with their scooters is something that they really love to do. We are lucky enough to have micro-scooters for the kids which are so easy for the little ones to ride. Our smallest has been confident on her  hand me down scooter since before she was 2!

I made a change to my usual camera and took my images with my little canon 400d, which was my very first Dslr and the one i now keep as a backup. I often carry it in my bag wen we are out and about as it take up much less space than its big brother and is much lighter! It takes some getting used to everything being a little bit smaller. But I am a firm believer in the theory that you don’t need the highest end of camera to take great pictures. The best camera is the one you have with you!!

We had a quick 20 minutes in between pick ups of the older ones and we headed to a rainy park and got the scooters out to burn off a bit of energy and let the woofer have a bit of a run. The girls has decided to wear my Doris designs skirts that i use for photoshoots. All my girls love these skirts and i can’t blame them, they are beautiful and most of the time they are off limits but now and again the girls grab them and wear them for the day. Often its a party or other such thing but sometimes its just the everyday.

Always good to have a bit of extraordinary in the ordinary? right 😉

 

we thought this log looked like a pig!

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15 minute tonic #CountryKids

The week leading up to the end of the school holidays we still had snow on the ground here. I know a lot of people were the same. Beginning to wonder if spring was ever going to show up. The temperatures had hit a bit of the dizzy heights of 9degrees earlier in the week and we all breathed a sigh of relief as we thought that this was it, spring was finally on its way.

But then we were plunged into freezing temperatures and snow flurries all over again. I get so frustrated with the lack of flexibility snow affords me for getting outside, my kids can usually just about cope with the school run before they start saying how cold they are and begging to go in. But after school one afternoon after I had, had a lousy day (dont ask) we piled into the car and took the dog for a walk.

Surprisingly no-one moaned and we bowled around a little local park in about 15 minutes, just long enough to jumps off and on some logs, run after the dog a few times and leave smiling with red rosey cheeks. Then home for a quick hot chocolate to warm up and maybe a little bit of a pick me up for me!!! *cough*

Now then, come on spring, get your best clothes on we are more than ready for you!

 

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the easter egg edition meets Mr. Darcy #CountryKids #NationalTrust

Easter Saturday we decided to go out and hunt for eggs! The National Trust and Cadbury have been running the great easter egg trail throughout Easter and so we decided to hit one of these at one of our local National Trust properties. We went to the beautiful Lyme Park which is where the BBC filmed a large part of their classic version of Pride and Prejudice with a certain Mr. Darcy *cough*

It is a really beautiful house and there is lots to do for the kids without adding the extra excitement of a easter egg hunt. We set off on our hunt, the kids answering questions and running round to count things, look for flowers, get faces painted and draw their own version of easter egg heads!

We walked around the Lake, you know….that lake…from that scene *fans face* 😉

Im pretty sure just a few 100 yards down from him was the path on which we walked round the lake *sigh*

It has such beautiful gardens, we are planning on coming back in the summer so that we can see the benefit of the gardens without the snow!

heading off round the lake

 think this was the point that *he* threw himself in the water! 😉 the beautiful house

one happy hunter outside the orangery

This is the staircase that they were walking up in the first picture just the other way round….

After the house and gardens we headed over to the woodland play area. Which is massive with a big rope walk, slides and tunnels to crawl through. We finished it off with a little stroll through a woodland where one of my daughters discovered that putting your foot in the space between a flooded cattle grid is not a good idea! 😉

 

 

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Unexpected countryside in the city #CountryKids

Sometimes you dont need to be hitting the country side to be enjoying a bit of the outside. Often, because we live in a city there can be some very unexpected places where you can connect with the outdoors!

I had to take one of my girls into the city for a piano exam the other week and as i was concerned that we had to park and get there we set off early and arrived about half an hour before her slot for her exam. Half and hour wait in the waiting room for a piano exam with two wriggly, lively and not asleep as planned, toddlers was not going to happen.

So we wondered further down the road to The Bluecoat chambers, which is an incredible building in the city, which i believe was an old school and is now home to uber trendy craft shops and a museum. We wondered in and used the ‘facilities’ and then went for a nose around their sensory garden area where they have some sweet little exhibits made by local school kids and habitats for insects. Flower beds and cute little baby saplings, no doubt planted to be the dominating great city trees of the future.

Was lovely to see this little garden in the city. It was a welcome distraction and took enough time that my stay in the waiting room with the little ones went quickly and without too much hassle.

She aced her exam as well!!

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when you get a curve ball #CountryKids

and no im not talking about ball games! Last week we had one of those ‘pass the bug’ weeks as in tummy bugs and it was not much fun to be honest. On tuesday morning I got home from work, having done a 12 hour night shift to be greeted by my son who had spent large amounts of the night on the loo.

Yes I feel sorry for him, honestly. I do. But that is a curve ball for our childcare arrangements and when i usually am crawling into bed having dropped kids off here and there..i now had the pleasure of a 10 year old vomity kid instead. A long day of awake stretches ahead of me. *sigh*

I dropped the little girls off at school and having my son with me and the dog, who always leaps into the car these days. We stopped at a lovely little wooded area that is close to the kid’s school. It is largely unused except by dog walkers, a couple of stunt bmx-ers who have made a ramp and the odd time you might run into a film crew as it is quite close to a studio.

We might have made a funny sight that morning. A scraggy little dog, a ten year old who was looking a bit green and a mama in scrubs and boots shuffling along in a sleep starved manner!

Was a beautiful morning, cold but sunny and it couldn’t fail to lift my sprits a bit. Nice for the dog to have a run and for me to hang out with my boy for a bit!

Dark panda eyes bought to you this week by the NHS 🙂

oh and just in case folks are thinking im busting out the big camera guns for a post night shift walk round the woods. These are all iphone pics lovelies. 🙂

“the best camera is the one you have with you” Chase Jarvis

 

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