Category: Travels

  • Courtesy

    I love the touch of making a towel puppy at the Premier Inn in Leith. 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.

  • Lakes Photo Shoot 3

    Friday, 22nd November 2013 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.

  • Lakes Photo Shoot 2

    Friday, 22nd November 2013 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.

  • Lakes Photo Shoot 1

    Friday, 22nd November 2013 Today Daddy Keating took a visiting American friend, Kaitlyn, on a whistle stop tour of the Lakes so that she could take photos. Unusual for Markie he left his camera at home so that he could focus on driving and being a guide. That didn’t stop him using his camera phone.…

  • Driving Us Crazy

    Saturday, 8th November 2013 While staying near Alton Towers for the firework weekend we meet up with Nana, aunties Kathryn and Lesley and the Grandmas Steph and Linda. Elliott and Ben took the chance to get as many people as possible onto the tractors with them. This specific post was created using WordPress for Android…

  • Fireworks at Theme Park

    Friday, 7th November 2013 We stayed in Stoke so that we could take the kids to Alton Towers for the firework display. It was really cold, however we anticipated this and had them wrapped in multiple layers.  Elliott was so cozy that he slept throughout the entire display, however Ben really enjoyed himself. We even…

  • The Last Few Weeks

    27th October 2013 I realised that we haven’t wrote what we have been doing recently to this diary so today since I have a short deal of time I thought I would recount what we have been up to these last few weeks. I should note that you can see many short videos of what…

  • Rydal Hall

    Sunday, 1st September 2013 Into the Lake District once again for a visit to Rydal Hall which sits on the hillside above Rydal Water between Ambleside and Grasmere. Rydal Hall is owned by the Diocese of Carlisle and the National Trust, it is a camping site and local art retreat. The Hall opens its gardens…

  • We Went Camping

    24th-26th August 2013 Recently we bought a tent as the boys are about old enough to enjoy camping and it can be a very costly affair staying in hotel rooms all the time with the added issues of locations and availability. So we bought a tent and headed to Scarborough for the Bank Holiday weekend.…

  • Aria Force

    18th August 2013 It was daddy’s birthday today but he didn’t want to go very far and decided to take the family to Ullswater to walk along Aria Force. The day started well enough, we picked up snacks for the walk and headed to Ullswater, when we arrived Ben was a little sick and so…