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Summer Days Linky ~ Finally, a Day Out!

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Welcome back to the Summer Days Linky with myself and Karen from Stopping at Two. You can read more about it HERE. You can link your summery posts at the bottom of this post.

So here we are, the end of the last full week of the summer holidays! It has been a long six weeks, but in a way it has also flown by. I must admit that we are all ready to get back to our usual routine and with the awful weather we have had the kids getting a little cabin feverish now and are actually looking forward to going back to school!

This week Lee was off work and it was supposed to be our week of fun.

It hasn’t quite worked out that way.

To begin with LV has broken his heel bone and is on crutches. He doesn’t have a cast on, which he is extra gutted about, but he isn’t allowed to put any weight on it for at least another 4 weeks. This has obviously limited the activities we could do.

The second problem was two hospital appointments which took up Monday and Wednesday.

The third and most inconvenient issue was once again, you guessed it, the weather! It has been horrendous here most of the week meaning most of our possible days out had to be crossed off the list.

By Thursday we decided we needed to look for somewhere further afield and after a quick google of ‘where is sunny in the UK now’ we jumped in the car and made our way to Bristol Zoo. I will tell you more about it next week but here are some photos as a teaser.

Blue skies! Such a change from the downpour we had just left in Wales.

Even the lions were enjoying a doze in the sun!

I think I had the better end of the deal with the much needed piggybacks later on in the afternoon. Not only did I get the smallest boy but using my pod (a style of baby carrier) makes life so much easier!

So now on to the Summer Days linky, please feel free to link up any type of post. It could be a round up of your week, a picture you want to share, a yummy recipe, fun craft or an activity you’ve tried. Maybe you simply went out for a lovely walk in the sun or spent a bit of time in the garden. Anything you like that makes you think of summer including fashion, beauty, interiors and travel posts.

Of course there are a few simple rules:

Link up one of your summer related posts from this year.
Please comment on at least the two posts before yours ~ Remember these linkys only work if we all share the love, the more you give the more you get back!
You can use the hashtag #SummerDays when you comment to let people know where you came from.
Please add the badge to the bottom of your post to help spread the word of the linky.
Have fun! It is summer after all 😀

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The Summer Days Linky ~ What a Week!

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Welcome back to the Summer Days Linky with myself and Karen from Stopping at Two. You can read more about it HERE. You can link your summery posts at the bottom of this post.

The start of this week was beautiful. It was so lovely we even had to wear suncream, which has been a rarity this summer!

You may have already read about LV’s very eventful birthday on Saturday, if not you can read about it HERE. We also managed to get a couple of days work in the allotment, with LV and O being the main ‘helpers’. FYI, if your trying to get rid of stones having a toddler around is NOT going to result in stone free vegetable patches! Although he did give it a good go, as well as helping me break pallets apart.

The Summer Days Linky ~ The Big Dig

Welcome back to the Summer Days Linky. This week it’s just me as Karen is having a lovely family holiday in West Wales. You can link your summery posts at the bottom of this post or read more about the linky HERE.

This week has been all about the new allotment. Between buying a few new tools, seeds that will grow over winter, gloves for the kids etc and then trying to actually get some ground dug up it has taken up our entire week. I even managed to get the girls involved which I was mightily surprised at!

Summer Days Linky ~ What a Washout

Welcome back to the Summer Days Linky with myself and Karen from Stopping at Two. You can link your summery posts at the bottom of this post or read more about the linky HERE.

What an absolute washout this week has been! It has been cold wet and miserable almost every day right through since last friday. We had hoped to have a nice family day out on Sunday as it seemed to cheer up a little on Saturday but we woke to torrential rains so only ventured as far as Argos to buy a new computer mouse and treated the kids to Burger King, instead of our planned picnic!

But never mind, it seems to be brightening up now so fingers crossed we will have some dry days this weekend. Yesterday, Thursday, was a beautifully sunny day and instead being able to get out and shake off all the cobwebs, we were stuck at home waiting for a bed to be delivered!READ MORE »

Summer Days Linky ~ Back to the Garden

Welcome back to the Summer Days Linky with myself and Karen from Stopping at Two. You can link your summery posts at the bottom of this post or read more about the linky HERE.

This week has been a bit of a bust as far as summery activities go I’m afraid. What with the horrendous weather and O being completely out of sorts, amongst other things.

I did manage to get back out in the garden on the weekend and finish pulling up all the Japanese Knotweed before the rain rolled in though. I often say that my garden looks like the side of a mountain (well it literally is) but I think this photo really shows I’m not exaggerating!

Summer Days Linky ~ Growing Strong

Welcome back to the Summer Days Linky with myself and Karen from Stopping at Two. You can read more about it HERE. You can link your summery posts at the bottom of this post.

Do you remember the Sunflower and Bean seeds O planted back at the beginning of June? The are now safely planted in Taid’s garden (Taid-Welsh for grandad-is my dad) and are growing strong.

The sunflowers are getting really tall now.

The Summer Days Linky – Shakespeare and Sports Day

Welcome back to the Summer Days Linky with myself and Karen from Stopping at Two. You can read more about it HERE.

At the beginning of the week we had a beautiful couple of days. By Wednesday, while the rest of the country seemed to be enjoying a heatwave we had cool breezes, cloud cover and even a fair amount of rain! Luckily O and I had taken advantage of the sun in my parents garden while waiting for the nappies to finish rinsing in the machine (ours is still broken)

Summer Days Linky ~ Blowing Bubbles

Welcome back to the Summer Days Linky with myself and Karen from Stopping at Two. You can read more about it HERE.

Yesterday I took O over to the park at the end of out street. I say park, it used to have swings, a slide, a climbing frame, all the things you’d expect to find in a park. But about ten years ago they came a cut all the equipment down leaving a multi layered patch of concrete which was eventually sold earlier this year.

I figured this may be our last summer to enjoy having the space to run around in, before someone inevitably builds a house on it, so we strolled over with a pot of bubbles to enjoy the lovely warm weather.

To start with I was the one blowing bubbles and O ran around trying to catch them.

The Summer Days Linky ~ What happened to summer?

Welcome back to the second week of the Summer Days Linky with myself and Karen from Stopping at Two. You can read more about it HERE.

So I think we can all agree that the weather has been pretty pants this week, it has been cold wet and windy and more like a winters day rather than June! so I have to admit that we have spent pretty much the entire week indoors, so this is just a short post from me this week.

Luckily, Thursday turned out as a beautifully sunny day so we did manage to get out to playgroup where O tried his hand at planting some seeds. Hopefully it won’t be long and I’ll be able to share with you some photos of his beans and sunflowers, although they may be ~~very~~ a little overcrowded as he got slightly over enthusiastic with the seeds!

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Twice a week the teens attend Army Cadets so I spend at least 10-20 minutes sat waiting for them to come out (I have to get there early or I can’t park!) Luckily I get to spend that time alone, with a cuppa and a reading book or a notepad so I’m perfectly content. Monday, the rain was so bad I could barely see two cars in front of me, but I was treated to this beautiful sunset on Thursday which completely made up for the rest of the week 🙂

So now on to the Summer Days linky, please feel free to link up any type of post. It could be a round up of your week, a picture you want to share, a yummy recipe, fun craft or an activity you’ve tried. Maybe you simply went out for a lovely walk in the sun or spent a bit of time in the garden like we did. Anything you like that makes you think of summer including fashion, beauty, interiors and travel posts.

Of course there are a few simple rules:

Link up one of your summer related posts from this year.
Please comment on at least the two posts before yours ~ Remember these linkys only work if we all share the love, the more you give the more you get back!
You can use the hashtag #SummerDays when you comment to let people know where you came from.
Please add the badge to the bottom of your post to help spread the word of the linky.
Have fun! It is summer after all 😀

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Summer Days Linky ~ Attack of the Knotweed

I know it doesn’t really feel like summer yet but with the kids being off school this week I thought it was the ideal week to revive the Summer Days Linky for this year as I’m sure you’ve been up to plenty of activities to keep the children occupied during the half term break. You can read more about the linky here. This year the fabulous Karen from Stopping at Two has stepped in to co-host alongside me so please stop on over and read about her week too!

But first onto our week.

Lee had the whole weekend off so I took advantage of the weather and him being here to watch the kids while I tried to attack the garden. With all the scratches on my arms it actually looks like the garden attacked me though! I mentioned this time last year about our garden being over run with Japanese knotweed. We couldn’t stretch to the builders doing anything in the end so it was still looking a ~~lot~~ little a jungle up there.

believe it or not there’s a garden up there somewhere and I’d already cleared some brambles away!

I’m sure I left my house around here somewhere!?

Oh there it is!

There’s still a long way to go but it’s certainly a start!

Today, we also took a lovely walk up the mountain opposite our house. There was me, three teens, 3 tweens, an eight year old, a preschooler a toddler and two dogs. It was definitely a gossip filled walk that’s for sure!

We even had a bit of impromptu babywearing from a couple of the teens on the way back down!

It’s been a bit hit and miss with the weather, but we certainly took advantage of the nicer days when we could! I hope you have been too!

So back to the linky, please feel free to link up any type of post. It could be a round up of your week, a picture you want to share, a yummy recipe, fun craft or an activity you’ve tried. Maybe you simply went out for a lovely walk in the sun or spent a bit of time in the garden like we did. Anything you like that makes you think of summer including fashion, beauty, interiors and travel posts.

Of course there are a few simple rules:

Link up one of your summer related posts from this year.
Please comment on at least the two posts before yours ~ Remember these linkys only work if we all share the love, the more you give the more you get back!
You can use the hashtag #SummerDays when you comment to let people know where you came from.
Please add the badge to the bottom of your post to help spread the word of the linky.
Have fun! It is summer after all 😀

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