I'm not a fan of any ride that goes faster than the carousel but I do have two children who are a little (although not much) braver than me and who love theme parks of any description.  So when we planned a visit to Blackpool with our friends we decided to take them to Blackpool Pleasure Beach for the afternoon.I haven't been to the Pleasure Beach for many, many years and it's changed beyond all recognition to me.  For some reason, I had it in my head that it would be a much scaled down version of a theme park - more of a fair but with bigger rides if you know what I mean.  Anyone who's … [Read more...]

I know I've not been around much lately and when I have it's really only been to tell you what a great time we're having these holidays but there's only a week left and then normal service will be resumed I promise.For now though we're still in full holiday mode here and we've had another great week filled with new things and new places. On Wednesday we visited Alnwick Castle which is absolutely nothing like I expected it to be.To some, Alnwick Castle is best known for being Hogwarts in the Harry Potter movies, others will love the history of the castle and the chance to explore … [Read more...]

You know when you go to a safari park and people spend more time looking at your children than they do at the animals…..A few weeks ago we were invited to Knowsley Safari Park by the lovely ladies at Jungle Dogs and after a great event with some lovely food (who knew you could do so much with a hot dogs) all the children were given onesies.Not just any onesies though, these were the best onesies in the world (the label said so it must be true) and were all animal themed so we got a crocodile and a pandaInstead of leaving them in the bags until we got home (wishful thinking?), … [Read more...]