Project Monkey

Category: Diary

  • Whitehaven Wandering

    Wednesday, 24th July 2013 In the afternoon, after we had dropped Jane at Cockermouth, we went with Jess and James into Cockermouth for a short lunch before a travel to the Cumbria coastline. In Cockermouth we found a small music shop where we purchased a cheap Yukelele for Benjamin as he keeps on wanting to…

  • Derwent Water

    Wednesday 24th July Today the family Keating travelled to Keswick to meet with Jane who was staying a week near Skiddaw. We kidnapped her from the lovely Ormathwaite Hall where she was staying (which had a lovely view over Borrowdale) and headed into Keswick for the morning. Borrowdale is such a strong Tolkien-esque name, you…

  • Sunny times at Nana’s House

    Saturday 13 July 2013 Leigh wanted to go to a Camp Nano meeting today so Markie and the boys decided to take a trip to see Nana and visit the convalescing Auntie Kathryn. It was another sunny day, in fact it was the warmest seen this year, so far, in Newton. It was an easy…

  • Lazing on a sunny afternoon…NOT!

    Saturday, 6th April 2013 After the mid-week expense and long drive to Windsor today we took a more relaxed view of what we wanted to do. It was already starting to be a great weekend as the weather was sunny and the kids wanted to go to the beach. To save daddy a drive in…

  • La La Legoland

    Wednesday and Thursday, 3rd-4th July 2013 This week we went to LegoLand, Windsor, as part of Ben’s Birthday Celebrations. I risk the ire of my friends who live in the south as I write this who would have loved to see us but the schedule was way to fierce for me to contemplate any other…

  • On the Bus

    29 June 2013 Ben and elliott playing on the same ride at Toys R Us This specific post was created using WordPress for Android on a mobile phone. This explains but not excuses any incorrect or unusual typography, brevity or formatting.

  • 3rd Birthday

    28 June 2013 Ben was at nursery for his third birthday and mummy and daddy had to work. He was fortunate enough to have all the children at nursery sing to him and get cake that was brought  in for him. In the evening we took him out for a curry at the Khashish Indian…

  • Study Time

    26 June 2013 Today we were at Lancaster University Child Psychology Unit where Elliott was participating in a study into how children perceive other peoples motives. To summarise it was looking at an abstractism, do young children infer that someone is being purposefully false and acting. This is a simple description of a more complex…

  • Muncaster Fair

    Saturday, 25th May 2013 Muncaster Castle, Ravenglass Each year Muncatser Castle holds its fair over the Spring Bank Holiday. The culmination of events ends with the choosing of the fool, a piece of tradition that has eeked out the centuries in thsi lovely part of Cumbria. We decided to go along to see the wonderful…

  • Claire’s Party

    Saturday, 15th June 2013 This weekend was Claire’s thirtieth birthday and she had a SteamPunk dress party at her house in Morecambe. The house is in Ian’s name, and he pays the mortgage, but Ben has declared it is her house, well he says ‘It is Claire’s House”. Elliott had a jacket on which Leigh…