Project Monkey

Tag: Diary

  • Aviemore Awaits

    Tuesday, 2nd April – Thursday, 4th April We took a short break over Easter and had a few days holiday at the MacDonald Douglas resorts in Aviemore. The drive from Lancaster to Aviemore is a long one, but also a really beautiful drive through the heartland of Scotland. We left early in the morning so…

  • Reading with Mummy

    Wednesday, 27th March 2013 It is the growing tradition for the kids to join us in the bed in the mornings now. We get to drink a coffee and they get to cuddle mummy and daddy, play with toys, occasionally create havoc, so all good fun. Sometimes mummy likes to read to them. It brings…

  • L-L-LEGOLand Again

    Wednesday, 20th March 2013 On Wednesday Mark took a day off work in the middle of the week so that he could spend a day with the kids as his weekend would be taken with helping Ian and Claire to move house. So we went to the LEGOLAND Discovery Centre in Manchester, once again, so…

  • Unearthing the Past

    Saturday, 16th March 2013 Lydia was in the United Kingdom for a few weeks during the early part of this year and as part of her stay she trekked north to visit Chuck. So on the Saturday we decided to kill their buzz* by dragging ourselves along on their visit to the north. Vindolanda Lydia…

  • Hopi Mother’s Day

    Sunday, 10th March 2013 Today is Mother’s Day in the United Knigdom when all good children who still have maternal relatives present flowers or some such and do their diligence. Personally we love it, maybe because we are lucky and have great mothers, all of them, great grandmothers/nanas, all of them, and a great-nan who…

  • Want, go to, Le-go Land…

    Saturday, 2nd March 2013 We went to the Trafford Centre in Manchester at the weekend, the principal reason for going was that Daddy wanted to visit the Northern Model Show which was on at the Event City space next door to the shopping centre. The biggest draw for Ben, however, was the LegoLand Discovery Centre…

  • Felt Like Kismet…

    Wednesday, 20th February 2013 There are some days where you just feel that the whole of the world is designed to cause you some level of failure. Laws regarding large numbers would deem this collision of events inevitable, and chaos theory would likely indicate that the smallest element was the cause as a tumble effect…

  • Time to retyre*

    We told the kids that we were going on an adventure this morning and how right we were… It was 8:25 a.m. And we were in heavy (ish) traffic on the M6 southbound just past junction 23, doing between seventy and eighty overtaking traffic, when I heard a noise from the front of the car…

  • Trotter’s World

    17th February 2013 On Sunday we decided to try one of the wildlife parks in Cumbria that we had not yet visited, so we took the longer drive to the West Cumbrian area near Keswick and Trotter’s World. This is a 25 acre park in a beautiful part of the country, just the side of the…

  • Certificate

    Leigh passed her degree late last year but it felt a little more official today as he received her certificate through the post. So she is now a scientist, expect her to use the XKCD line mercilessly in the future. Her graduation ceremony will be in Edinburgh in April.