Family Natters

One of the best value canal boat day’s out is Pennine Cruisers of Skipton.   We hired one of their larger boats in February, and as it was their winter rate, it cost us just £85 for up to 10 people. 
The children loved helping to open and close the many swing bridges along the route, and […]

If you are interested in finding out about the fight records of Steve Collins and Nigel Benn, meeting them in person, having your photo taken with them or asking them questions, then you should consider buying a ticket for one of their sportsmen’s dinners. 
For about £60 per person you also receive a 3 course meal […]

If you are a fan of Orson Bright Ideas or Culture Vultures albums, and would like Orson concert tickets, why not consider seeing them in a small venue during their UK tour. 
I saw them at Leeds Met last night where the audience must have been less than 400.  Even though I was over half an […]

If you want to experience the adrenaline rush of a terminal velocity free-fall with very little risk, why not try Airkix’s specially built wind tunnel at Xscape Milton Keynes.  There are various packages you can buy in increments of 1 minute and there are options to also have photos or a DVD made of your flight, but roughly it […]

Sundown Adventure Land is located six miles from the A1 Markham Moor and sign posted three miles from Dunham on the A57. Admission is £8 per person with under 2’s free of charge. Best suited for families with children under 10, it offers the following:

numerous parks with slides, cargo nets, bridges, round-abouts and climbing apparatus

go-karts

automated […]

 Yes, I have been to Claridges and here is a video to prove it. It was all wonderful: from arriving and being treated to free drinks because they’d messed up our reservation to staying in a suite of 3 plush rooms. The staff were too fawning for my liking, for example leading you to the toilets […]

No, this is not a photo of James.  Its one of the entries we saw in a scarecrow competition in Eastrington, East Yorkshire.  The idea was to find the scarecrows and make a phrase out of the letters you found the scarecrows holding up. 
Here are the letters:   H D F  E D T  E  E O […]

Total Fitness has 24 clubs mostly in the North West of England. Many of them incorporate:

an indoor running track
an enormous gym

a hydrotherapy pool (hot water + massage jets)

a cooler bigger pool for serious swimming

a warm children’s pool

exercise classes such as aerobics, step and spinning (stationary bikes)

sauna, steamer, plunge pool, […]

I was recently invited to a surprise birthday party for a girl at work called Lyn. James wasn’t keen because he didn’t know anyone and because he would be missing a football match, but I dragged him along anyway and we arrived soon after it was due to start, about 8:30.
It was quite busy, and […]

In the summer holidays we visited Boston Park Farm Maize Maze in Hatfield Woodhouse, Doncaster, and all had an ‘amazing’ time. Annie enjoyed playing in the sandpit while Tom loved climbing the straw pyramid and feeding (each bag cost 20p) Paddy the Shetland pony, the pigs, goats and calves.
 
There was a hatching shed where we saw tiny day-old […]