Martin had been saying for a couple of weeks that he needed a holiday so at the end of November I decided that even though we didn’t have time to have an actual holiday we could manage a night away.  We could do the Saturday night, we have no duties at church the next morning, there were no kids [Continue]

We have been rather lazy on Sundays recently.  Just coming home from church having a leisurely lunch/dinner and watching TV or playing games.  But I have really been fancying getting out on a Sunday afternoon particularly as the weather is bright and shiny just now.  So we headed out to Fishbourne with a plan to [Continue]

FUNGI – yes I am shouting it’s what you do on one of Sue Bailey’s fungi walks. You look around find some fungi Yell “fungi” at the top of your voice and a crowd comes running and Sue tells us what it is we’ve found. We didn’t find an awful lot at Parkhurst. Then as [Continue]

Here are my new walking boots before heading out for their first trip – I’m very pleased with them as they seem very comfortable. I started using these boots for the  Isle of Wight walking festival. There are apparently over 600 walks to choose from over the course of two weeks led by all sorts [Continue]

Martin has been leading a few walks in the walking festival, all drawn from a new walks booklet he has been involved in developing.  Yesterday we took Jonathan along with us (girls too blistered from Walk the Wight) and did a brilliant walk starting at  Mottistone heading down the coastal path to Brook  and past the Longstone [Continue]

So Martin and I are having a lazy morning, no noise, no rush, no need to hurry to get up.  We have a leisurely breakfast planned and then a walk and lunch in a pub somewhere and a long chat about our future plans. Then there is the phone call! The one from the kids [Continue]

We had a fantastic walk this morning.  It was one of the Histree Trail series.  I picked up all of the walk leaflets from the libary about 3 years ago but we hadn’t managed to do any of the walks.  Sam had organised a walk so we were motivated to go and do the walk. [Continue]

Well blogging has been a low priority this month – in fact it has been over a month since the last posts! So this month has been spent largely spent focusing on getting the girls through the exams.  They both has the last of their maths exams and Rebekah had her iGCSE English as well. This [Continue]

Life has been quite busy and stressful for us since about last June/July really.  We have managed to clock up 6 p/t or self employed jobs between us, we’ve been trying to fight the Badman stuff and obviously HE , do Learning Zone and church things as well as normal stuff with our lives. In [Continue]

The South West coast of the Island is famed for its fossils. We arranged a work outing to take a look with a local expert. Unfortunately something went wrong and we managed to be in a different place to our expert at the appointed hour. Having driven all that way we figured we might as [Continue]