Category: Days’ Out

As a family, days’ out are really important to us. We love to find new and exciting place to go to, we love taking photos (me in particular!), we love making memories and we adore having fun together. Our days’ out at the weekends are something I look forward to all week as it is the only time we get really. Long working hours mean that my husband is in late and with Jake now at school, I miss seeing him each day. This is why my blog has become a great place to create memories of all of our fab days’ out which I will be able to cherish for years to come.

I also love to be able to report back to my followers and reviewing a venue from an honest viewpoint is fun to be able to do. I hope you can all find something to do from reading one of my blogs and I hope you can have amazing days’ out too!

Taking a Dog To The Lake District

Posted on May 6, 2022May 24, 2022 by Emma Reed

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The Lake District has always been on my “to see” list and for many reasons (mostly time and money), it took until just recently to actually get there. We knew that this area is completely dog friendly but having never taken a dog away on a full holiday with us before and having a pretty full on 18-month-old Border terrier we weren’t entirely sure how it would all go… This is our experience of taking a dog to The Lake District.

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3 Nature and Activity Places to Visit in Hampshire

Posted on January 22, 2022May 19, 2022 by Emma Reed

We are really lucky to live in the county of Hampshire there is just so much in and around this area for us to explore and discover. As a family who love venturing outdoors and being close to nature we are often out and about and I love sharing these on social media to give others ideas but I’d realised I hadn’t written a days’ out post for a while here on my blog so I thought I would provide an informative style article and give you 3 nature and activity places to visit in Hampshire that are ideal for walkers, dogs and families to enjoy all the year-round.

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Visiting The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Posted on October 10, 2021October 10, 2021 by Emma Reed

When we visit Cornwall we usually plan in a trip to The Eden Project but having never previously visited The Lost Gardens of Heligan we decided to ensure that we squeezed it into our plans and I am so glad that we did. Here’s how we got on visiting The Lost Gardens of Heligan…

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2 boys in water, one balancing on a log and the other paddling

7 Simple Tips To Help You To Achieve Your #1000HoursOutside Challenge

Posted on August 21, 2020December 1, 2020 by Emma Reed

This year we decided to take part in the #1000HoursOutside challenge. The idea behind this being that we get our kids away from those screens and show them that the great outdoors can be amazing fun as well as good for their physical and mental wellbeing. Being a Mum to 2 very active boys I didn’t think I would find it too hard but come February, I realised I had overestimated how much time we spend outside in the winter months. It is so easy to make excuses that it is too cold, too wet, we don’t have enough daylight time and I suddenly became very aware of how much we all relied on screentime to entertain us until the better weather came. Continue reading “7 Simple Tips To Help You To Achieve Your #1000HoursOutside Challenge” →

Visiting Moors Valley Country Park

Posted on August 20, 2019October 10, 2022 by Emma Reed

As a family, we love being outdoors and discovering new places. We first visited Moors Valley Country Park a few years back but didn’t get to stay very long and then just kept forgetting to drive back to explore it further. Located in Dorset, Ringwood near to Bournemouth, it is around an hours drive for us so it definitely needed a whole day dedicated to returning and now that both of the boys are at the stage of being able to enjoy things together, it seemed like the right time to head back down there.

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KidZania Review

Posted on May 14, 2019January 22, 2022 by Emma Reed

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I’d heard so many great things about KidZania in Westfield so we were over the moon when we were asked to attend an event run by Nintendo inside the giant kid’s city which would allow us to visit the rest of the play city afterwards.

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Review | Coral Reef Waterworld, Bracknell

Posted on January 11, 2019March 13, 2022 by Emma Reed

Image Credit Renovation Bay-Bee

Coral Reef Waterworld was our favourite place for swimming when Jake was younger. I would happily drive the 40 minutes from Basingstoke to Bracknell to enjoy the fun of the pools, jacuzzi, rapids, pirate ship, slide and so much more. I loved it because it was the warmest pool I had ever visited which is always important when you have babies or small children, they provided armbands, the entire pool was open (unlike our local Aquadrome which doesn’t seem to think that opening every area is required for some reason?) It was always very clean and it had a lovely restaurant to grab some lunch in after our swim. It was well worth the drive up there, so you can imagine my disappointment when they announced they were closing for a year for refurbishment.

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