I say this every month, but I look forward to writing this post every month and it's easily my favourite post of the month.Like all brothers and sisters, my two argue but on the whole, they get on really well and they actually seem to like each other most of the time. Believe me though, when they do argue, they really do and there's door slamming and hair flicking all over the place! ;-)We've had a lovely month this month, made even better by the lovely weather we've had!  We've had lots of mini adventures and have lots more planned for the rest of the Summer too.... … [Read more...]

Last Thursday we were invited to pop along to Durham Cricket ground to watch the Durham Jets play a home match in the T20 Blast series.If I'm honest, I wasn't particularly excited about this as I had no idea how to tell the difference between a stump and a wicket (still don't actually) or how to tell a four from a six (that one I do know now) but Mr Frugal was quite excited when he heard it was a T20 Blast match and not an actual cricket match - he assured me that these matches were shorter and more exciting than traditional cricket matches.  The kids were really excited too although … [Read more...]

I wrote the title of this post at the end of last week and I was going to write a bit of a philosophical type post inspired by this quote that some lovely sent me:But then we had a lovely weekend away and I realised that there's no point dwelling on things I can't change, no matter how much I'd like to.  So I decided not to write the post I was going to write and instead you have two lovely photos taken a year apart at Knowlsley Safari Park (more on that later in the week).They might not look any different to you but to me they've changed massively in the last twelve months - … [Read more...]

If I’m honest, my usual plan of action, when I know we have a long car or train journey ahead of us, is to charge up all things electronic, dig out the headphones, get the kids to choose a book each and add a pillow or two to the back seat – that usually keeps the kids quiet for a good few hours, which makes for a happier journey all round.But last week we had a slight trauma when we realised just before a three hour journey that I’d forgotten to charge everything up and I hadn’t even remembered to prepare our usual car journey things.  The children were mildly traumatised at the thought … [Read more...]