Ready for a 3 week 365 Special? Here we go!

The Smalls first cinema trip today, we saw Khumba then headed to our favourite Sensory Playground in Hanley Park for some sunny playtime.

Today was a hide inside from the weather kind of day.

I had a bad day today and seeing this when I got in from a de-stressing walk was just what I needed.

I don’t remember the last time Arthur fell asleep in the pushchair but today’s hot, muggy weather totally knocked him out on the way to collect Tori from school.

Another rainy day today so the Smalls had sunshine for tea!

Tomorrow Caius and I leave for Scotland at 4am so we are all packed and ready in advance and the Smalls have gone to my parent’s for the night before heading off to their Daddy’s for half term.

We arrived in Inverness after a long drive followed by two bus journeys. It was beautiful and sunny (and windy!) and we enjoyed a nice walk before our sailing adventure truly started on Sunday.

Today was a bit less sunny – in fact it was distinctly wet – but that didn’t stop it being beautiful as we sailed from Inverness across Loch Ness to Fort Augustus.

Today started with us going up the staircase of locks out of Fort Augustus squished in with six other boats! We were piggy in the middle too. Then we sailed on down the Caledonian Canal and through Loch Oich and Loch Lochy before mooring up above Banavie’s Neptune’s Staircase locks with spectacular views of Ben Nevis which was still sprinkled with snow.

Today we went down the last of the canal and finally came out into the sea on Loch Linnhe which was a total mill pond. I have never seen the sea so flat!

Yesterday Caius twanged the elastic oar tie on the dinghy when we rowed ashore for a walk and today Kristina managed to fix it after much hilarity and a few mishaps.

Today we went for a day sail on the Lynn of Lorn – wasn’t as windy as we’d have liked but it was a beautiful day.

We went out today with the sole aim of catching fish for supper. Not one single fish was caught – we didn’t even see any!

We set off home rather sadly early this morning but didn’t make it much further than Glasgow before the car expired and we had to wait for the RAC to come rescue us and take us home.

The Smalls came home this afternoon and for all I have enjoyed the peace and quiet, it was good to have them back 🙂

Half-term caught up with Arthur after pre-school today and he fell asleep in the pushchair on the way home and didn’t surface again until gone 9pm when he had toast and a little play before falling back into bed!

I felt in the need for some homecooked food today and having spotted some tasty looking sweet-cured mackerel in the shop earlier I decided kedgeree was the way to go. It was very tasty!

After his half-day at pre-school today Arthur was still pretty tired so we had some quiet playtime in his room and poor old Teddy got a bit thrown around.

Today was Tori’s last session of Ju-Jitsu after-school club. She has really enjoyed it and for some reason today came out of it insisting on walking home backwards. She didn’t keep it up all the way though.

We got a new (to us) seat for the back of the bike today so Tori and Caius set off for school in style this morning 🙂

Having remembered that Father’s day is coming up, I set the Smalls to doing some crafts to package up and give to their Daddy. These are cute farmyard magnets – although once Arthur had finished he was covered in so much red paint he looked like he had murdered someone!