really need to plan multiple activities for each day - the psychological impact of knowing we have weeks and weeks with no school or nursery sessions is kicking in!Thankfully today we had a trip planned to Thoresby Park (http://www.thoresby.com/) with three other families.
It's our first visit to Thoresby, I hadn't realised it was there - only ten minutes drive from our house though I suspect we will be frequent visitors now we know. It's a stately home (mainly used for weddings and as a hotel) along with lots of parkland and a courtyard of shops (sweets, toys, crafts and gifts).The bigger kids, Beth included, took bikes but I managed to avoid taking Toby's trike - too heavy to carry if/when he decided he'd had
enough. We started with a walk around the park stopping off to look at the huge fish in the river (carp I think) and got lots of comments on the number of children we had. We only had eight but I think they were moving so fast it seemed like many more - one couple even asked if we were on a trip from a nursery!
After that we plonked down under some trees for a picnic and game of football - very pleasant though it would have been even nicer if I'd remembered to bring a flask of tea. :) We finished off with very sloppy ice creams. A very enjoyable day.
Thought I'd just stick this picture it's so nice - flowers chosen by Beth from grandma's garden.
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Beth looks so determined. I never learned to ride at a place like that, it was in my back yard. I suppose that's why I ride everywhere now.
We are pretty lucky to have so many cool places around us that we can bike at (perhaps I'll have to do a post about them all to try and lure some of you over to visit . . .), we also don't really have room in our back garden for biking and it gets boring just practicing out the front!
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