So this summer we'd agreed to go on holiday with my parents (so dad had someone to do long walks with & we'd get a cheap holiday!). Given mum's health earlier this summer we ended taking a week away mid-september. Mum & I looked at holiday cottages "up north" & ended up choosing one near Pickering at the south edge of the North York Moors ( Read more... )

So the other weekend lemming_man & I took out 4 furkids over to a field in Northamptonshire for a weekend of camping & ferrets. For starters packing the car was "interesting" - camping stuff takes up loads of room as does ferret stuff. Turns out we didn't need as much food as we took as there was nommy food provided at low cost each day ( Read more... )