Today My GS and I spent a lovely day at Dinefwr Park and Castle. Arriving at lunchtime, we immediately popped into the Tea Room to enjoy cheese scones, cream and jam. Additionally, the GS had a cheese and red onion chutney sandwich. We then walked across the park to the castle ruins. On the way back we enjoyed the Bogwalk Boardwalk which, as the name suggests, is a walk on boards across a bog! Towards the end we sat down to enjoy the view across the lake, and s...

Today a group of us celebrated Mum's 84th birthday with a trip to The Chichester Festival Theatre to see Fiddler on The Roof. With a couple of Mum's neaighbours, we first made our way to Gosport to meet up with a couple more friends , who laid on a lovely Afternoon Tea consisting of little sandwiches, scones and cakes. There we were joined by my brother and his girlfriend for a lovely couple of hours. We then set off for Chichester to watch the fantastic produc...

I took the GS out for a couple of days, the main purpose being to visit Bletchley Park. On the way we stopped off for a leg-stretch at the Rollright Stones. This is an ancient stone circle consisting of three groupings. Standing alone, and across the road from the others, supervising all is The King Stone - illustrating the isolating burden of rule. Below him is a circle of The King's Men. Separately from them are The Whispering Knights - but what is it that the...

Today, the GS and I revisited Warwick Castle, taking advantage of his membership to get in free while we can. As the school holidays had just started, it was somewhat busier than last time, but Warwick Castle is big enough to cope. The GS headed straight for the play area, after which we went round the Horrible Histories maze again, which is great fun. Then it was lunch time so we took advantage of the Pasta and Pizza buffet, during which GS et a humungeous 8 s...

My Godson (GS) and I have been to a few places so far this year, so here is a quick catch-up. WARWICK CASTLE -- 18 Mar 17 A great day out - specially as the GS has a Merlin Pass and I got in free as his carer. DYRHAM PARK - 10 Apr 17 A stunning house and we had great fun with a frisbee in the grounds, and the GS really enjoyed playing with a group of boys he met. HANBURY HALL - 16 Apr 17 We had a great day following the Easter Egg Trail, which GS completed su...