tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40443428739192504422024-02-07T12:05:18.900+00:00Podheim"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones ~ the ones at home." ~ Mother TeresaPaulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03050098322558700410noreply@blogger.comBlogger1372125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044342873919250442.post-63767061952339511372018-05-18T23:12:00.001+00:002018-05-18T23:17:30.026+00:00Podheim on Instagram<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is obvious that my blogging is somewhat sporadic these days. As much as I love our family adventures, making memories and taking photographs, I find myself with very little free time for blogging about them these days. If you would like more regular updates, I update my Instagram account more regularly than my blog. You don't have to have the Instagram app to view my pictures as you can view it on a web browser. I have included a link below that takes you straight to my profile. For those of you who have not used Instagram, once in my profile you can click on each picture to view it larger and read any text I have written to go with it. I do try to update the blog when I can, but as you can tell, that isn't very often these days. Instagram is kept rather more up to date, although with fewer photos. Here is the link if you would like to follow me on Instagram:<br />
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Our caravan site in Northumberland had beautiful sea views and direct access to a tiny little beach. The Podlings love being by the sea. It seems to have such a calming affect on all of us. Alex, in particular, would happily spend hours throwing stones in the water, climbing on the rocks and watching the waves. A visit to the beach was high on his wish list all weekend and we were happy to oblige before leaving. It was such a tiny beach, but we must have spent over an hour there. The Podlings came away happy with pockets full of beach treasure.</div>
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No trip to Northumberland would be complete without a visit to Barter Books. One of Europe's largest second-hand book shops, it is housed in the old Victorian railway station in Alnwick. It is the most charming place with an open fire, a model railway running across the top of the bookshelves and a delightful children's room. I love it! I always come away with a lovely selection of books and this visit was no exception. The Podlings have cottoned on to the fact that I rarely say no to books, so they always come away with a few themselves. On this occasion, Lily actually came away with more books than me! Happy to be raising bibliophiles!</div>
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The Podlings are all Harry Potter obsessed (even Alex!), so during a recent weekend away in Northumberland we decided to take them to Alnwick Castle. Alnwick Castle was used to film parts of Hogwarts in the first two Harry Potter films, so we thought they would be excited to visit it. Unfortunately, they were expecting something rather closer to the CGI version of Hogwarts that you see in the movies, so to be honest they were rather underwhelmed with the real thing! We still had a lovely day out though. Tom, who has a very good memory for such things, was able to point out various parts that had been in the films. "This is where the flying car lands in The Chamber of Secrets and that's the arch it drove off through" were amongst his helpful observations as I didn't really have a clue! I would like to do the tour next time which tells you where different scenes were filmed. I am rather a fan of Harry Potter myself!</div>
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We all enjoyed the falconry display and were astonished at the size of the golden eagle. The state rooms were naturally very impressive and the girls enjoyed looking wistfully around the gift shop. We were able to upgrade our ticket (at no extra cost) to give us a yearly pass to the Castle, so we will definitely visit again. Emma was particularly keen to have a go at the broomstick lessons, which take place at the exact spot that Harry has his first flying lesson in the first film, so hopefully she will get an opportunity next time.</div>
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Twycross Zoo had a wonderful promotion on over half-term, so since the Podlings had filled their marble jar again we decided to take them to the zoo for their treat. The last time we went to the zoo, Alex was only a year old, so he wouldn't have remembered it. He absolutely loved it and loved the giraffes and the penguins the most. Emma adored the lorikeets and was thrilled to have three of them land on her arm at once in the lorikeet aviary. It made her day! Lily was slightly less keen on the one that landed on her head! </div>
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We met up with Mark's parents and his brother Greg and his family in the morning and we had a lovely day out together. You can probably tell from the photos how cold it was, but we were just thankful it stayed dry as rain had been forecast. We were able to warm up with our picnic lunch as Twycross Zoo has a very civilised heated indoor picnic area.</div>
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We all had a really enjoyable day out and managed to listen to most of 'James and the Giant Peach' in the car on the way there and back. Audio books are wonderful for longer car journeys and we are particularly enjoying our Roald Dahl set at the moment. All in all, just a really lovely day that I am sure we all remember with fondness.</div>
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<i>Watching the elephants</i></div>
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<i>Alex really loved the penguins and spent ages watching them, running between the underwater viewing window and the wall where he could look over and see them walking and swimming about.</i></div>
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<i>Alex enjoying a ride with his cousins Taylor and Freddie</i></div>
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I love Valentine's day. A chance to show all the lovely people in my family how much I love them and use pretty china, flowers and hearts as I do it. Win Win for me!</div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><i>Happy Valentine's Day!</i></span></div>
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<i>Valentine's treats for the Podlings greeted them in the morning. There may or may not also have been doughnuts for breakfast as a special treat.</i></div>
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<i>I made these little Valentine's treat boxes for the Podlings. Ladybirds for the boys and roses and lace for the girls. They are filled with Love Hearts.</i></div>
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<i>Presents for the dolls, the little heart shaped boxes I made were filled with Love Hearts and given to the dolls with a bouquet of paper roses.</i></div>
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<i>Our Valentine's tea (the picture is very dark for some reason)</i></div>
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<i>Heart-shaped fairy cakes with pink and white icing, pink glittery sugar and red and pink roses (I loved making the roses!). They couldn't be more perfect for a Valentine's day tea! </i></div>
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Valentine's day is always a good opportunity to have some themed fun and gives us something lovely to focus on as the winter drags on. Cold, wet and windy weather makes our usual outdoor adventures less appealing, but indoors we can be cosy and warm as we enjoy some Valentine's themed crafts and activities together. Here is a selection of what we have been getting up to this month, with plenty of other things that never got photographed. It has been so lovely!</div>
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<i>A simple Valentine's pre-writing sensory set up for Alex. It is just table salt coloured pink with copious amounts of pink, purple and gold glitter to make it really sparkly. Spread in a tray with various bits and pieces to make marks with (not pictured are the straw, fork and spoon he also played with. </i></div>
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<i>Making heart shapes with a cookie cutter</i></div>
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<i>He played with this for ages, first drawing and making marks with objects, then drawing in it with his fingers and then completely burying his hands and pouring and playing with it like sand. It ended up with Playmobil figures in it too! So much fun from such a simple set up.</i></div>
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<i>I bought some water beads in Valentine's colours and put them in a bowl with some pink foam heart shapes. I have never bought water beads before, so this was a first for the Podlings and it went down a treat. Alex and Emma in particular played with them for ages and, naturally, Alex had to add some cars in too!</i></div>
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<i>The water beads were a huge hit with all four Podlings.</i></div>
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<i>Emma loved the water beads</i></div>
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<i>The Valentine's sensory box before I added in all the extras. The Podlings really enjoyed mixing the colours together!</i></div>
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<i>I loved putting this Valentine's sensory box together. I coloured rice red and pink and added in shiny heart-shaped confetti, red glass pebbles and red ribbon roses. I finished it off with the little Valentine's peg people which I painted myself. It looked so pretty!</i></div>
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<i>Fun in the Valentine's sensory box</i></div>
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<i>Painting cardboard heart wreaths and little heart-shaped boxes</i></div>
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<i>I really loved the wreath that Lily made. She is so creative.</i></div>
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<i>A snowy Valentine's photoshoot with the dolls</i></div>
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Lily is almost always the first one awake in this house and never more so than on Christmas morning. We have a 'not before seven' policy which means they are given short shrift if they show up before seven in the morning. I heard little feet trotting down the corridor several times from half past six (and Lily says they were awake much earlier than that!) as Emma kept coming to check the time on Mark's alarm clock! On the dot of seven, two excited girls and a sleepy little boy who had been woken by aforementioned girls appeared in my room with their stockings. It is hard to be quiet when Father Christmas has filled your stocking whilst you were sleeping! We always have the stocking opening in our room before going downstairs to open the presents from us.<br />
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Much excitement (and mess!) ensued downstairs with the present opening and the Podlings were all pleased with their gifts. As usual, I didn't take many photos later in the day, but we had a really nice, relaxed Christmas. Mark's parents came over in the afternoon to spend the day and enjoy Christmas dinner with us and we had a really nice day together. Another wonderful Christmas to add to the store of family memories.<br />
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<i>Waiting for Daddy to come downstairs.</i></div>
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<i>Lily is Harry Potter mad and her favourite present was the complete Harry Potter wand collection.</i></div>
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<i>We are not big fans of traditional Christmas cake, so I made a Christmas Victoria sponge instead.</i></div>
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<i>The Podlings on Christmas eve (Tom opted not to be photographed)</i> </div>
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Christmas Eve is so magical, far more so than Christmas Day. The excitement, the anticipation and the sense of magic in the air as the children go off to bed makes it one of the best days of the year for me. As usual, we went to church for the children's Nativity service and then we went back to Mark's parents house for tea and the Podlings got to play with their cousins Grace and Poppy. Then home and into new pyjamas. I am so in love with the nightdress I chose for Emma this year. She is unicorn-obsessed (she was raised by unicorns apparently), so was over the moon when I found this very special nightdress for her. We laid out a mince pie for Father Christmas and a carrot for the reindeer, read 'The Night Before Christmas' and then sent a group of very excited children off to bed.<br />
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Alex had a final reading of 'Lucy and Tom at Christmas' by Shirley Hughes before the day itself. It had been his favourite story book for all of December and I always have to read it as 'Emma and Alex at Christmas'. I love Shirley Hughes' books and it is a testament to her charm that although I had to read that book every day (often more than once) for an entire month, I still love it!<br />
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It was many more hours before Mark and I got to bed. Thanks to a nasty stomach bug tearing through the family the week before Christmas, I was behind with my wrapping, so it was a late night for us. It is always worth the effort though when the children wake up on Christmas morning and see all the pretty parcels waiting for them. Magical!<br />
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<i>That nightdress though! It has a smocked panel of unicorns and has dainty lace at the frilled collar and cuffs. It is so traditional and pretty.</i></div>
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<i>Ready for Father Christmas. </i></div>
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Ah, Wallington! What a delightful place! A National Trust property in Northumberland, Wallington consists of a beautiful Grade 1 listed house set in 13,000 acres of land and we barely scratched the surface of the estate on our visit. The house was simply wonderful and I could have spent hours here. The dolls house collection alone would have occupied me for ages. I would dearly love to go back to the house again.</div>
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The weather was not great the day we visited, but that didn't stop us from taking a Thermos to the adventure play area. The Podlings are not bothered by rain showers! It was late in the afternoon and it kept raining, so we had the place to ourselves! The play area was fabulous, but we did eventually have to admit defeat with the weather!</div>
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I was utterly captivated by Wallington and it now ranks as one of my favourite National Trust properties, along with Cragside (also in Northumberland) and Lanhydrock House in Cornwall. We will definitely be returning here in the future.</div>
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<br />Paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03050098322558700410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044342873919250442.post-21686957246622030512017-09-07T22:11:00.000+00:002017-09-09T22:16:46.287+00:00Dunstanburgh Castle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our family have lots of lovely adventures together, but some days are just special. Our visit to Dunstanburgh Castle in Northumberland stands out as one of my all time favourites. Standing on a remote headland between the villages of Craster and Embleton, the impressive fourteenth century ruin is well worth the mile and a half walk required to get there. The car park is just outside the village of Craster and then you have to walk through the village and then a mile and a quarter along the coast.</div>
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The day we went was beautifully sunny, but extremely windy and since Alex is currently going through a phase of being afraid of the wind the little chap wasn't happy unless he was being carried...and only by me! A mile and a half with a hefty three year old on your hip is hard going! Thankfully Alex loves castle ruins, so once we actually got to the castle he seemed to forget the weather and just enjoyed exploring with his brother and sisters. It really was a wonderful place and well worth the walk.</div>
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By the time we started to walk back the wind and dropped down again and with some encouragement from us and his siblings Alex consented to walk most of the way back. My back was very grateful! We finished off the day with the most delicious fish and chips in the town of Seahouses before driving back to our caravan and putting four very tired Podlings to bed! It was a very lovely day the memory of which I will always treasure. </div>
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<i>Exploring ruined castles...one of the best parts of an English childhood!</i></div>
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<i>At the end of a three mile walk and still smiling.</i></div>
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On the first Monday of our holiday we took a lovely walk through the beautiful woods at Castle Eden Dene Nature Reserve in County Durham. It was a lovely day, sunny but not too hot. The woods were full of wildflowers and butterflies and we even found a few late raspberries, which the Podlings soon polished off! We walked two and a quarter miles in total, which was possibly a little far for Alex who was flagging a bit by the end and needed a few carries to keep him going. He soon perked up when we got back to the car park, where we had tea, orange juice, cakes and biscuits to perk everyone up. We never travel without a Thermos!</div>
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<i>A quick game of 'The Floor is Lava' in the car park, initiated by Alex!</i></div>
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We have just returned from a delightful two week holiday in the North East of England and I now have the pleasure of re-living our time away as I go through my photographs (which is frankly far more appealing than the truly terrifying pile of laundry demanding my attention!).</div>
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We started our holiday with a visit to beautiful Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. The largest and best-preserved Cistercian monastery in England, we came here <a href="http://podheim.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/fountains-abbey.html" target="_blank">last year</a> and loved it so much we wanted to visit again. The sun shone for us and we spent a lovely Sunday afternoon here. </div>
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<i>Mark with his lovely parents, the Podlings' much-loved Nanna and Grandad</i></div>
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<i>A rare photo of the two of us (taken by Lily)</i></div>
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<i>Emma dressed as a maid</i></div>
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The weather on Sunday was somewhat less pleasing than Saturday, so a trip to the Brampton Museum in Newcastle-under-Lyme seemed a good way to pass a rainy afternoon. We love it here. It is quite a little museum, but very sweet and the Podlings particularly love the toy gallery. It was a lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon.</div>
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<i>Emma loves to play with the dressing-up clothes in the toy gallery.</i></div>
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<i>Alex loves the display of vintage toy cars. He would dearly love to play with them!</i></div>
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<i>I fell in love with little Nelly, a well-loved toy elephant from the 1920s. She seems a little sad to be shut in display case all by herself. I wonder if she dreams of the little girl who used to play with her.</i></div>
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<i>I love the Victorian artefacts on display. The Victorian era is a particular favourite of mine.</i></div>
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We enjoyed a lovely walk around Ridgegate Reservoir in Macclesfield Forest this afternoon. The Podlings consumed their own bodyweights in wild raspberries, frequently stopping to pick handfuls which they shared with one another. We ended our afternoon with an exciting picnic tea which saw us repeatedly dashing under the shelter of nearby trees to avoid the rain showers! We were forced to admit defeat during our second cup of tea when the showers turned to a decided downpour, but we had finished our picnic by then anyway and at least it stayed sunny for our walk!</div>
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Sunday afternoon saw us enjoying tea and biscuits with a fabulous view over the Cheshire plains from Beeston Castle. We never travel without a Thermos! </div>
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<i>Shortly before a butterfly landed on Emma's hair bow, no doubt mistaking it for a flower</i></div>
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<i>This three-hole entrance to a rabbit warren looked poetically like a rabbit paw. There are so many rabbits on the hill at Beeston Castle and we love to see them.</i></div>
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<i>Alex looking after the biscuit tin! You have to keep an eye on him as he likes to take a bite of a biscuit and then put it back before taking another one!</i></div>
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<br />Paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03050098322558700410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044342873919250442.post-49916965486222103612017-06-17T23:11:00.000+00:002017-06-17T23:16:22.768+00:00Our holiday in Germany - A Last Farewell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After checking out and letting the Podlings have a final play in the play park, we decided to take a farewell walk around the perimeter of the campsite and down to the countryside behind. It was so beautiful and I wish we had walked there earlier in the week so we could have followed the path further down the hill. There was a field of wheat on our left with beautiful purple vetch climbing up the stalks to delightful effect. The verge was lined with wildflowers and butterflies and to our right the open countryside afforded stunning views. It was like something out of a storybook and I wish we could have spent more time soaking it all in. I would very much like to come back here again.</div>
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<i>Capturing this photo of a fritillary butterfly on field bindweed rather made my day!</i></div>
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<i>A view of Saarburg from the top of the hill</i></div>
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During our holiday in Germany we stayed in large mobile home on a lovely campsite on top of a hill overlooking Saarburg. The road up was steep and winding with a total of fifteen bends from the bottom to the top (Mark counted them!), so the view from the top was excellent! It was quite possibly the nicest campsite we have ever stayed on and both the swimming pool and the play park were a huge hit with the Podlings. One of the things I love about Germany is their use of wood and the play park was certainly the most charming I think I have ever seen. I took lots of photos of it as I know the children will want to remember it. We loved our time here and would definitely stay there again.</div>
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<i>Breakfast and Angry Birds on the iPad!</i></div>
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<i>Stories at bedtime with his current favourite book "Cars and Trucks and Things That Go" by Richard Scarry which Alex calls his 'funny car book'</i></div>
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<i>Man make fire! We had a barbecue on our last night. We were all set with lots of meat, coal, firelighters and a shiny new bucket barbecue when we realised that we didn't have any matches! I improvised some splints out of a torn up brown paper shopping bag and used the gas hob to light them. I then passed them out the window to Mark who managed to eventually get the thing going. He produced a fabulous meal for us on this little bucket!</i></div>
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<i>Sandcastle building</i></div>
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<i>Vineyards at the bottom of the hill</i></div>
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On our last full day in Germany we visited Wolfspark Werner Freund, which was fairly near where we were staying. The wolf park was created by the German wolf researcher Werner Freund and,to our surprise, is free to the public. We didn't have time to walk around the whole park as the gates are locked at five, but we did get to see several enclosures. Nearly all the wolves we saw were asleep and just looked rather like large, fluffy dogs lazing around in the woods! Lily, a real animal lover, particularly enjoyed our visit here and she was especially taken with the arctic wolves.</div>
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We walked out of the gate just before five and straight into the most incredible forest. We had a wonderful walk through the forest, gathering armfuls of pinecones, looking at wildflowers and watching black beetles scurrying across the path. The forest quite took my breath away and was one of my favourite parts of the whole holiday.</div>
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<i>It was clearly nap time for the wolves! A couple of the timber wolves were awake, but all the arctic wolves were just lying about sleeping. They all seemed quite relaxed!</i></div>
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<i>One wolf decided to check us out, but decided we weren't very interesting and went back to sleep. It's a good life!</i></div>
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<i>Into the forest...</i></div>
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<i>Forest treasure!</i></div>
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<i>The Saarschleife</i></div>
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Mark had to be in Brussels for a business trip during half term, and since the children were off school we thought we would all tag along and make a holiday of it. We love Germany and since Mark doesn't bat an eyelid at driving on the continent we thought we would have our holiday there and he would drive to Belgium for his meeting. We had our own car anyway as Mark drove the whole way. We find it both considerably cheaper and more practical to drive everywhere with our family of six and all our attendant stuff! We stayed in a lovely campsite overlooking Saarburg near the Moselle Valley. The weather was glorious all week, the swimming pool was lovely and we had it to ourselves most days, the play park was one of the nicest I have ever seen and the surrounding countryside was just delightful. In short, we had a wonderful week and none of us was keen to return to reality on Monday!<br />
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It is no secret that I am fond of taking photos and since I love to record the memories we make as a family I thought I would share some of my favourites over several posts. These pictures were all taken on our visit to the Saarschleife, a rather spectacular ox bow in the river Saar. We took a lovely walk through the forest to the viewing point, soaking in the lovely view before walking back through the forest and letting the Podlings play on two of the most awesome slides they have ever been on!<br />
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<i>This viewing platform was closed when we were there, which is just as well as I have no head for heights and it made me dizzy just to look up at it! It was a truly spectacular structure, with the posts supporting the walkway leading to the platform made of actual tree trunks! You still wouldn't get me on it though!</i></div>
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We took advantage of the lovely spring weather to take a day trip to the Lake District. The Lake District holds a very special place in our hearts and is so beautiful in the spring. Our first stop in the Lakes was Townend house at Troutbeck. A farmhouse belonging to the Browne family for over 400 years, this delightful home really captured our hearts. The house and its contents were left to the National Trust by the last occupant, George Browne. A successful farmer, he was able to retire early and then took to carving the contents of his home. The house is filled with his intricate carvings, right down to the little chairs he carved for his children. The house has so much personality and I just loved it!</div>
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After Townend we took a lovely walk in the nearby St Catherine's Wood and, as ever, finished our day at Wray Castle where we enjoyed tea and soup at dusk on the shores of Lake Windermere as the bats flew over our heads in the darkening sky. Such a lovely day and such lovely memories.</div>
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I love good quality traditional wooden toys for my children, but there are undeniably times when a pile of mud and a bright yellow plastic digger are required! Alex normally doesn't like to get his hands dirty, but he had a wonderful time in the garden yesterday playing with the soil and some of his toy vehicles. </div>
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