I’ve lost track of how many Power Picnics we’ve hosted over at the Millennium Meadow.  I think today was the third.  Sorry, yesterday.  I really must start these blogs entries earlier, lest I fall further behind — forgive me…I was listening to music while sprawled on the sofa with my feet and legs twinging from [...]

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Tolii graduated from the Oak Tree nursery this evening. Friends can see all the graduation photos in our gallery (remember to log in there).
Its off to Whitchurch Primary school for him come mid-September.  In the meantime, he can now coast through the rest of his summer at the nursery….
Tolii’s A-Levels (Attending Lunch, eating voraciously, even [...]

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The town’s Church Fête was held today in its usual spot: the lawn of Lord Denning’s estate, opposite the parish church.
You can have a look at the photos that I took - they’re all in our gallery (you can click on a thumbnail of a picture in the gallery to see a medium sized version; [...]

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Both this morning and evening we went to White Hill, near Kingsclere to walk a part of the Wayfarers’ Walk.  It was a spectacular place for taking photos!
Granny came along for the morning hike up the path heading west from the road. It was quite steep!
Afterwards, we headed over to the nearby National Trust [...]

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Granny celebrated her 73rd birthday today. The boys loved the birthday present that mummy had bought for granny: a pig shaped flower basket. The boys named the pig “Boris” for reasons only known unto themselves. The cats spent a good amount of time investigating it!
Granny took us all out for a wonderfully delicious lunch [...]

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Although the weather has cool down to about 16C, its still fine enough for a trip to a garden on the southern edge of the New Forest: Exbury Gardens and Steam Railway. It was about a 50 minute drive, heading south of Whitchurch. The admission was about £7.50 per adult. Kids under 3 [...]

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Has Andrew really had 40 parties for birthdays already? Well, this latest one has got to have been the best!
His primary goal was to show-off to the four-year olds what a party for a person an order of magnitude older can be. No doldrums of mid-life crisis here: no, it was pure adrenaline time!

The [...]

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To round out this May Bank Holiday Weekend we visited a farm park near Stone Henge which we have never been to before, but had read good things about: Cholderton Rare Breeds Farm, also known as Cholderton Charlie’s Farm.
Their website sadly, as of May 2008, wasn’t too inspiring. But that made the pleasure of [...]

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We headed over to the Longstock Park Water Garden in Leckford after a busy morning (again) of football practice [Tosha kept busy by running around the huge field] {I don’t know why I like using different kinds of brackets for these asides}.
The water garden is owned and managed by Waitrose, of the grocery fame (in [...]

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What a day Sunday was for us!
First, the morning was a chance for us all to play in the freshly fallen snow. Then the afternoon was spent in the tropics of the greenhouses at The Living Rainforest, located just north of Newbury. God help you find your way through the A34/M4 roundabout [...]

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Granny took us all out to the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu. We were last at Beaulieu in September 2007.
Have a look at all the photos Andrew took!
We discovered that our year’s pass only gave us readmission to the museum , and not the the palace house. Although, the price was discounted by [...]

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The National Oceanographic Centre (NOC), formerly Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC), held its annual open day this Saturday during the Science and Engineering week festivities. There’s a few photos here; and, as usual, more photos, in our gallery.
It was a great opportunity for mummy to show Tolii and Tosha where she worked. Even though both [...]

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Granny finally had the opportunity to take the boys bowling; It was one of their Christmas presents.
Tosha insisted on carrying the heavy balls himself - only once did he drop one; and that was probably because daddy was trying too hard to help him (which he made clear he did NOT want). Luckily it [...]

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The Russians are coming (on Canadian built tanks)!
Today, we had an expedition to Portsmouth to explore the tanks, the seaside and the battleships. We had a nice lunch, too.
This is the third time we’ve visited the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, home of Warrior and Victory. And, it is the first time we succeeded in [...]

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This weekend we stayed well within the known Whitchurch area (unlike last weekend). Tosha’s friend Tristan brought along his sister Autumn and his mum and dad (Carole and Richard) for a walk along the Test River path and into the Millennium Meadow.
It was a gorgeous spring day in the middle of winter: sunny and [...]

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