I spent last week in a 12th century chateau in the south of France. I travel a lot, as you may have noticed if you follow this blog – but I hardly ever get an actual holiday (to which my sisters always say “from what?!”). In fact, I was so ready for this break that [...]
Categories: Travel
I talked to the animals, for a start… In case you missed it, I’ve spent the whole of the month of February on holiday. It’s been brilliant. I haven’t had time off work like that since… well, I can’t actually remember having had time off work like that before. Four weeks. Amazing. My sister asked [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Family
Tagged: holiday
Happy Pancake Day Jake made us pancakes for Pancake Day today. I don’t really get pancake day, nor much care what it all means, but pancakes are yummy so we joined in the fun. These may not be traditional pancakes – they’re thick rather than wide, but they’re delicious. Like a bowl of porridge in [...]
Tagged: holiday, mardi gras, pancake
An altogether quieter Boxing Day. Instead of turning left outside the hotel, today we decided to turn right, and just follow our noses. We ended up seeing a bit more of what we assumed to be ‘typical’ Czech life, as well as some pretty amazing stuff – like this broadcasting tower covered with babies. It [...]
Monday was a bank holiday, and I’ve taken this rest of this week off work. Teaching came to an end last week, and I felt I was overdue a bit of a break. Besides, Jake has his GCSE exams on at the moment, but he gets this week as a study break, so I thought [...]
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