Some of the kids and OH ran a 5k race for charity last weel. Ill share some more about it later but this particularly made me laugh while we were waiting for the runners of our family to return. A great caption opportunity? I think so…
Last week we were lucky.
Sunshine was here, warmth and a little left over fragrance of summer danced around our nostrils. We headed out, it has to be done. I can’t stay in, cooped up and away from this wonderful blue sky. We didnt venture that far, just to a local little park, with some bossy swans and over-familiar ducks but never-the-less. It felt a little like summer. Of course my daughter is always dressed for summer. I have no idea why, she won’t wear anything else, I have no energy to fight it.
Today she was right! It was warm. Warm enough to see t shirts and skirts, picnic blankets and fishermen lazing in the sun.
We walked and chatted. Sat down a while and watched the world go by and then discovered some flowers (for as long as we could before some of them were beheaded!) and played a little on the swings.
I like it when summer comes back for a visit.
Okay so its not really memphis..and being honest with you i wouldnt know what that is like because i have never been and i just really love the song…..
but…
this hill near where we live around this time of year backs onto loads and loads of crop fields and we like to go walking over there and it always reminds me of that line in the song ‘walking with my feet ten feet of the Beale’ which until recently i thought was ‘off a field’ ( you can see my connection here) but apparently it is  a road and not a field… HAH!  So my comparison falls down in so many ways but in my imagination it works!
So okaaaayyyyy…
The hill is one of the high points around here and so you can get a decent view of the landscape, which it is, to be fair, slightly blotted by a motorway and lots of plyons but it is a peaceful place and i love the sound of the wind moving through the crops. It isnt that far away so its not really a day trip but we took a lunch and sat for a while. Well some of us did! 😉
Generally the kids eat and run when we are picnicking. I have never had a child that hasn’t come complete with ants in their pants and they seem to be unable to sit still for very long. Fortunately there was a large rock to play on and some little sisters to give piggy back races to. Im amazed there were no injuries and it actually had the added benefit of my toddler asking someone else for a carry!
The rock here on this hill also gave me an idea for an image i want to get with a friend’s older daughter who is currently doing ‘en pointe’ ballet. I have been searching for a possible location and i think i may have found it. I was getting one of my girls to pretend to be a ballerina to see if it would work and she went for a classic ‘first’ position! 🙂
We walked back through the wheat fields. Once they stopped moaning about having to walk..(is it only my kids that do that?) They really got into looking and noticing the different flowers and how the wheat is planted in lines and how much ‘crop’ a farmer might get out of these many fields..oh and how much actual wheat it takes to make one loaf of bread. Something to google i think as OH and i had no idea whatsoever!
A nice little afternoon. All in all
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This summer the weather had been loads better than average. I know it is taking a bit of a downward turn and going back to the summers we all know. But while it was sunny, we did a lot of garden playtime.
This usually involves a lot of play with water! The kids love water and we are always telling them to stop flooding the garden and playing with the hose.
So this way we get to use the hose and the water and everyone is happy. Except the dog who hates the water antics and stands hidden at the back of the garden with a look of bewilderment on his face. Thats not the case with the slip and sliders though, they love every minute.  🙂
Yeah okay so i went AWOL again from nursery and took my girls to a little inner city farm in the sunshine. I might have written about it before. It is a council farm that is run to provide occupation and training for young adults with special needs. There is some cute little petting animals there as well as some farm animals, particularly goats!!
We discovered a little fairy glen walk and the girls followed the numbered route around and looked at the different flowers and trees. It was a nice to have a little shade.
We finished it off with a play on the tractor and then an ice-cream.
More fun than nursery?
Well it was for me!!
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