Posts belonging to Category Family fun
Posted by IngridK on June 25, 2011
This week I took my son to Deen City Farm. It’s one of a small number of city farms spread across London, helping little kids tell the difference between a sheep, a cow and an alpaca. I jest a little, because I’m a country girl. But I remember taking a university friend from Philadelphia up [...]
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Tags: campaign, communications, cuts, Deen City Farm, facebook, marketing, Merton, social media, twitter, Wimbledon | 
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Posted by IngridK on September 2, 2010
The boy, all of sudden, has decided that he wants to go to the beach. And since this is an island, a beach isn’t too far away. But it could take an hour and a half or even longer if the traffic is bad. And all the nearest beaches are pebble beaches. Which suck. -0- [...]
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Posted by IngridK on August 22, 2010
As a member of the Royal Horticultural Society, I receive a monthly magazine called The Garden. It’s full of horticultural wisdom and a fantastic letters page. A couple of years ago, there was a strongly worded letter condemning the ‘free for all’ that botanical gardens have become. Instead of places for quiet contemplation and the [...]
Categories: Family fun, growing things |
Tags: design, horticulture, playground, RHS, wisley | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on August 7, 2010
I was planning a short break this week. It turned out to be a lot shorter than I expected, given that we managed only one night away. But it was pretty good anyway, even if the castle that we saw was NOT a castle. Since we only had a couple of days we decided to [...]
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Tags: castle, England, fort, Hampshire, hurst castle, New Forest, UK | 1 Comment »
Posted by IngridK on August 7, 2010
When I was child, I enjoyed childish things. Like Scooby Doo and The Monkeys. I loved Scooby, it introduced me to the concept of mysteries and crime fiction, something I love to this day. I liked Velma’s irrepressible nature and her insistence on the rational. There are no ghosts. There must be something behind all [...]
Categories: bee in my bonnet, Family fun, musings, Remembrance of things past |
Tags: Gen X, scooby, tv | 5 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on August 2, 2010
We’re regular visitors to Richmond Park, but until yesterday we’d never visited Bushy Park – the other walled royal park, this one a little further to the south and west and across the street from Hampton Court, which must have been very convenient for Henry VIII when he used it as a hunting ground. It’s [...]
Categories: Family fun, growing things |
Tags: Bushy Park, London, park, playground | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on July 25, 2010
It’s “Mad about machines” week at the RHS Wisley botanical gardens. We took the boy down today to see a vintage tractor parade, ride in a trailer pulled by a tractor and we queued for half an hour just so he could sit in the cab of a John Deere. I like tractors as much [...]
Categories: Family fun, growing things |
Tags: playground, RHS, tractor, wisley | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on June 15, 2010
Sunday was quite the sightseeing day for me. I started off in York where I’d been attending a weekend conference, with little time to take in all the fabulous things to see except from the outside. But I got a few shots of York Minster from the outside And then I met my husband at [...]
Categories: Family fun |
Tags: London, Thames Clipper, tourism, Tower of London, transport, York | 2 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on April 23, 2010
Before my son was born, I made my husband promise that he would never, ever, ever let me cut the boy’s hair. I have a bad history with barbering. I’ve cut my brother’s hair a few times. Mostly when I was a teenager and he was just a little kid. It never turned out well. [...]
Categories: Family fun, Remembrance of things past |
Tags: Bill, diy, haircut, Simon, toddler, will | 2 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on March 31, 2010
We made the trip up to Woburn Safari Park so that I could pet the wallabies. I’m a big fan of the wallabies. I just want to give them a hug. But they don’t like that kind of thing, but they will let you pet them so long as they’re being distracted by food. We’d [...]
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Tags: lemur, safari, trip, woburn | 2 Comments »
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