Anyone who reads this blog regularly will know that over the past few weeks we've had more family days out than you would think possible! Our best day by far was last Saturday when we visited the Legoland Discovery Centre at the Trafford Centre in Manchester.We were welcomed Professor Brick who taught us how you make Lego using his special machines (and with a bit of help from the kids) in his Lego factory which reminded me of Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory without the chocolate ;-).We had a quick walk though Miniland which looked fantastic although we didn't really get to spend much … [Read more...]
Brilliant beetles….
This post is part of Cathy from NurtureStore's play academy. Why don't you pop over there for more ideas,After the last two super busy weeks, Mr Fugal and I are now both back at work and our bank balance is looking rather pathetic ;-( We don't mind though because, to us, thats the reason that we are trying to be more frugal - so that we can use the money to have as much fun as possible with the kids. Anyway, tonight we decided to have a bit of a family games night and play a few of our home made games,we played with the Story Cards and the Razzle Dazzle game but the kids decided … [Read more...]
What’s on your doorstep….
I am so tired. I've been off work for the past two weeks and rather than relax and take it easy, I've been busy trying to pack as much fun as possible in to our 'staycation'. It's so rare that we're all of work / school at the same time that we really wanted to make the most of it. We've been to Drayton Manor and Haggerston Castle so far and have planned a trip to the Metrocentre tomorrow and the Legoland Discovery Centre on Saturday. As well as these trips, we've been exploring our own area quite a bit and discovering new places to visit nearer to home.We live in an area of the North … [Read more...]
A home for Yama….
Cathy at NurtureStore has come up with a fantastic idea - The Play Academy, which I'm going to take part in each week. Here's my first entry: It sounded like such a simple craft session when Miss Frugal asked if we could make bookmarks. She's at the age now where she is starting to read independently and she will happily sit quietly in the corner reading to herself and she's starting to enjoy the books that she reads - at the moment she's reading The Twits and it's quite funny to watch her reading, every now and again she'll start to laugh or she'll look really surprised at something she's … [Read more...]
Mmmm Honey….
We had a car boot sale on Sunday to make some extra pennies for our fortnight off (2 sleeps people, 2 sleeps). It went pretty well actually, we made about £80 after paying to get in and taking into account the batch of designer clothes I bought for Miss Frugal.The day started off cloudy and overcast so I never took any sun tan lotion with us but by the end of the morning it was red hot so the poor kids had to stay in one spot in the shade for most of the morning. When we got home, we used the last of our water bombs to have a water fight to cool off. What is it about kids and … [Read more...]
Our cheeky weekend away….
A couple of weeks ago a small miracle happened - Mr Frugal and I both had a weekend off at the same time! We decided to take advantage and book a cheeky little weekend away with the kids. We had a good look around the Internet and ended up booking a Haven Holiday to Haggerston Castle in Berwick upon Tweed.We didn't have much time to get excited as we only booked on the Wednesday to go on the Friday, but by Thursday night the kids were so hyped up that there was no chance of them going to sleep at any sort of reasonable time, in fact this is what we found in our bed when we went upstairs … [Read more...]
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