Tag: herts
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Scarecrow Festival, Flamstead 2012
It’s official, the English are eccentric. Today we went to the Scarecrow Festival in Flamstead, Herts. Apparently, it’s been going for over 10 years and was started to generate funds for the upkeep of the Village Church and the Herts Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre. At least 70 locals took part, hoping for the most votes at…
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Child-friendly pubs? Do they exist in the UK
One thing we really lack locally is truly child-friendly pubs. We have pubs that tolerate children but none that really go beyond offering a children’s menu and many don’t even do that. It’s not that we want to take our daughter to the pub and get ‘fall down’ drunk but on a sunny day it…
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Heaven is a Cupcake!
Over 10 years ago we had a very drunken conversation in the pub about starting some sort of club. We threw around the idea of a wine club but in the end we decided to start a book club, which is actually a wine club in disguise and have been going strong ever since. We…
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What is Wellie Wanging?
We just returned from a spot of Tree planting and Wellie Wanging in Heartwood Forest, Sandridge, Herts. It was a great day albeit freezing cold. It was a bit of a trek to the wood but we managed it. We only planted a handful of trees and wish we did a bit more but if…