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Tolii Finishes Year R

School’s out!
Today was Tolii’s last day of Year R (reception).
I will remember today for another reason, too: my car had a flat tyre!  This was fortunate for Tosha as he got a trip to school with Tolii before we walked up to nursery.  I returned home and got our local garage, Clacy’s, to pull out [...]

Camping With Coops for His 40th

Long gone are the days of “back-pack camping”, when you go camping with whatever you could carry on your back – away from civilisation, miles from the nearest road, deep in the Siberian forests or the North-West Territories.
Things were simple those days: a tent, box of matches, two saucepans, spoon, knife, aluminum mug, sleeping bag [...]

Paddling the Basingstoke Canal

We headed to Odiham, near to Fleet, Hampshire to explore the Basingstoke Canal. Ironically, the canal doesn’t quite reach Basingstoke!

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First, we headed up along the old tow-path from the car park next to the canal in Odinham.  It winds its way to North Warnborough. The route was a bit noisy, what [...]

Longing No Longer for Longleat

Tosha finally got his chance to experience Longleat.  It has been a four years (to the day plus 1) since we were there last with Tolii (see below for video of that trip).
Grandpa, just a week into his visit to us, came along to see what all the fuss was about.
Katya had planned the start [...]

Alfie Sleeps-Over and Then Paultons

Last night, Tolii’s best friend Alfie came to visit and stay the night. All the boys had a jolly good time playing outside in the nice spring air (15C) before heading off to bed around 8pm.
That’s when we learned that Alfie must have been really wound up — because we heard chattering and playing [...]