Posts Tagged ‘Weekend’
My Year in Photos – February 13th – “Down on the farm”
For those of you who don’t have restless toddlers to entertain, the opening dates of local fams, parks, zoos and attractions probably don’t bother you too much. For us though, today being the first day that most of the parks near us are open for the year was a very exciting day!
We chose to head to Bucklebury Park Farm, which is quite near to us and thus reasonably easy to get to. What we hadn’t quite banked on was the freezing cold weather – no sooner had we walked out of the car, the snow started to (albeit lightly) fall… We still managed to have a lovely morning out with Robert, including feeding some lovely miniature ponies that you can see in the photo above.
My Year in Photos – February 7th – “Nice day for a walk in the woods”
My Year in Photos – February 7th – "Nice day for a walk in the woods", originally uploaded by henweb.
After a lovely day yesterday, we followed it up with another most-excellent day today (well, at least so far!), when we headed for a Sunday morning walk in the woods. Lardon Chase and the Holies, to be precise – which sounds more like a seventies band than a National Trust park to me, but hey. It was a great walk, which we did with Sara’s sister and her family (all shown in the photo).
Incidentally, just down the hill (back towards Streatley) there’s a mansion being built, which is rumoured to belong to Spice Girl Geri Halliwell – and which overlooks George Michael’s house, down the hill on the other side of the Thames….!
My Year in Photos – February 6th – “Page your Oracle”
Despite the cold snap they’re predicting for next week, today was a lovely day here in Reading. As well as the weather, it was also the first weekend in over 3 months where Sara and I didn’t have a shed-load of things to be doing for work or otherwise, so we all headed in to town for a day of shopping, lunching and relaxing.
After a relaxing day, we’ve spent the evening in a similar fashion – cheese and biscuits for dinner (we had a big lunch), copious amounts of red wine and port, and catch-up episodes of Lost, Glee, Heroes and Desperate Housewives. Oh, and some chocolate. What a result!
My Year in Photos – January 24th – “A classic evening”
This evening was a momentous evening in chez Elliss – it marked the first time that Sara and I have been out (without Robert) for well over a year. Thanks to Katy, who very kindly babysat for us, we went to see the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, featuring Emma Johnson on Clarinet – a favourite of Sara’s, who is a Clarinettist herself.
For the cultured amongst you (and I don’t count myself in that number!) they performed:
– “Incidental Music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, by Felix Mendelssohn
– Clarinet Concerto in A majo K/622, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
– Symfony No.8 in G major Op.88, by Antonin Dvorak
My Year in Photos – January 23rd – “Feeling broody…?”
Today we headed over to Hertfordshire to visit our Uni friends Dave and Claire, who recently became parents for the first time. We had a lovely day out, followed up by a lovely pub lunch in Maidenhead and a trip to the Sheeplands farm shop at Harehatch, on the way home. Win!
My Year in Photos – January 16th – “Bad parking example #897″
As it was a fairly dull and wet day today, Robert and I took a trip to our local “soft play” centre (leaving Sara to get on with some work). The one we go to is called “Krazy Play Days” (their spelling, not mine!) and it’s generally pretty quiet, and in reasonable condition. Today was pretty different though – not only was the inside like some sort of scene from a child’s version of Independence Day (screaming children, rioting mobs etc etc) but the seeming popularity of Saturday at KPD meant the car park was chocka too. This moron (pictured) really got my goat, parking over two spaces in the most spectacular fashion. The worst part was, there was a man sat inside it the entire time – evidently he’d left his kids inside and decided to listen to the football in the car. Which obviously made him even more of a twunt, since he must have noticed all the annoyed looks his parking was getting.
If I ever park like this, you have my permission to shoot me!