This morning, after hanging my washing out, I headed out with the kids to the botanical gardens. Alfie was a  little star, helping me with Holly and holding her hand, and not complaining about being too tired to walk even when Holly was on the hip seat. We went into the tropical house, then ran down the big hill to the lawn aviary through the rose garden, then across to the children’s playground, followed by the children’s discovery garden, then up past the parrots to the coffee shop. Reenergised by coffee, cake and ice lollies we headed down to the growing garden and climbing wall, then through all the themed gardens (butterfly, fern etc) and back through the bonsai collection. We were very worn out and it was only lunchtime lol!

Back home, after lunch we cleaned the toilet (me!) and watched CITV (them!) then did lots of jigsaws before heading onto the PC to look up a few things and play lots and lots of Thomas, Fifi, Roary and various other games – some educational, most just fun