Project Monkey

Category: Travels

  • Animal Madness

    Monday, 1st April 2013 Today’s family fun day was constrained to half a day as Mark had to work the bank holiday afternoon and evening. therefore it was decided to take a short trip to the Animal Oasis to see the small zoo just north of Carnforth. It seems we were wise to not go…

  • 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…

  • Kendal Food Fair

    Sunday, 3rd March 2013 The Annual Kendal Food Fair was on at the weekend which meant a short bounce into Cumbria to visit the wonderful town and taste some of the best that Cumbria and Northern Lancaster has to offer. Elliott was a little under the weather this weekend and Sunday was the point of…

  • 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…

  • Chinese New Year

    10th February 2013 It was Chinese New Year today, we originally wanted to stay close to home as Lancaster has, in the past, placed events on the Chinese New Year. This year there seemed to be a lack of any information on the websites as to anything occurring, so we decided to go further afield.…

  • Beautiful Brockhole

    Saturday 2nd February Today we went for a drive to the Lake District once more. It was predicted to be a clear, if crisp, day and the first day that Leigh has felt well enough to walk a little since being in hospital with pneumonia. Fearing that if we went too far she would get…