What can I say, our little trekker loves the swings and part of our daily routine is to walk to the park and let our little adrenaline junky get his fix. On this particular rainy Friday afternoon the heavens opened and although he had been cooped up all day I wasn’t sure it was a good idea to go out.

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It's been a funny mix of weather recently, hard to predict what you're going to get! We headed to Longshaw Estate to get some fresh air and found ourselves driving into the car park with snow on the ground.

When I was growing up, I absolutely loved Enid Blyton’s ‘Adventure’ series of books. Kiki, the talking parrot, was hilarious, and the idea of constantly falling into adventures was simply irresistible – especially as the mother was always trying to devise holidays for her children that wouldn’t turn into adventures.

Where do I start - well we have just returned from what I would describe as another world; Florida! Big, hot & busy!

When you look out of the window on a wet dreary day sometimes it is difficult to pull yourself out from under your Duvet; but if you manage to pull yourself outside you always feel better for it.

If we learned anything from our recent Yorkshire trip it was that you can take us Highlanders out of Scotland but it's difficult to take our love for all things Highlands from us even when we are away

Anyone who remembers our Digger Dreams Come True article from last year will know that with a little boy with such passion for construction vehicles a visit to Diggerland was a must at some point.

The winter this year up North has been grand with a dusting of snow showing up every week or so. Yorkshire which is always a beautiful place looks even more wonderful with a dusting of the white stuff. We love the snow and try not to let a lot little thing like the cold weather stop us or our little un’ Jasper from enjoying the outdoors.

In early March, we were really excited when we had the opportunity to spend a weekend in our old stomping ground of North Yorkshire. The big dilemma was to decide which of our many favourite haunts we would visit – there were so many great places that we knew it would be a hard choice.

Looking back through my blogs, I have found one I wrote about Hackfall three years ago but that – for some reason – I never uploaded, but that I’d really like to share with you.