Tag: outdoor
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Trampoline for a Small Garden
I don’t know what possessed me to agree to an 8ft Trampoline from Asda. Our garden is tiny, at most measuring approximately 20 x 30 feet. The look on my husband’s face when the trampoline arrived said it all really as I hadn’t told him it was coming. It took a bit of persuading to…
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Outdoor things to do with Kids Near St Albans
Mead Open Farm, near Leighton Buzzard and Go Ape, Black Forest With Summer holiday looming I thought you may be interested in a few days out I discovered for kids recently near St Albans, Herts. These two places are perfect for letting kids burn off a bit of that energy. Mead Open Farm On the…
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Outdoor Theatre near Kamloops
Caravan Farm Theatre – Armstrong, B.C. The Caravan Farm Theatre in Armstrong, near Kamloops has been running for 35 years. I’m trying to work out the first time I went and think it was about 18 years ago. We went again about 3 years ago and again this week to see Head over Heels. ‘There…
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Bucket list for Kids: Fifty things to do before you’re 11 ¾
I really liked this list published by the National Trust, except for the addition of the health and safety bits which annoyed me and contradicted the entire article. However, the article made me rather nostalgic, thinking back to when I was growing up in Canada in the great outdoors. We were chucked out the…
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Surviving School Holidays in St Albans
As it’s school holidays, I’m just been reminding myself of things to do with kids in or near St Albans. Thought it may be of interest to you as well. Heartwood Forest – in Sandridge. Over the next 12 years the Woodland trust is going to be putting this forest back to its former glory. …