London Transport Museum
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Mar 072010
Yesterday we went to the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden. We had a good couple of hours there – you don’t pay for kids under 16 which is a bonus. Then we went past St Paul’s Cathedral and across the Millennium Bridge and into the Tate Modern for a quick look around. Angus saw [...]
Museum of Childhood
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Nov 282009
Last Saturday we went to the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green. It was a good day out and the children really enjoyed it. Here are some photos of our time there.
Father Christmas at Langdon Visitor Centre
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Dec 212008
Today we went to see the big man at Essex Wildlife Trust’s Langdon Visitor Centre. They have a preserved "plotlands" house from the 1940s which they theme into Father Christmas’ home in the North Pole. Anyway the children loved it, partly because they spent quite a long time with Father Christmas and asked him lots [...]
Advenure Island 2008
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Dec 072008
Today we visited Adventure Island, because we had some discounted tickets that we had bought from school and we wanted to use them before the end of the year – and also it was a fantastically glorious day.
Tropical Wings with St George's Playgroup
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Sep 022008
Yesterday we went to Tropical Wings with St George’s Playgoup. There were about twenty of us all together and we went in a small coach. It was a good day and we saw a lot of animals from butterflies, giant tortoises and wallabies – the children particularly enjoyed the parrot and rat shows and playing [...]
Langdon Lake Opening Celebration
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Jun 082008
For lunch we drove to Langdon Hills, which is a nature reserve owned by Essex Wildlife Trust and had a picnic once we had walked to the lake and done a bug hunt and pond dipping. We saw some goslings, ducklings, Coots and Morehens I knew they were having an open day, because it is [...]
We went down to the woods today...
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May 042008
Yesterday morning we took all the stuff to Mandy’s Accountant in Rochford, then we went to the Farmers Market in the Rochford WI Hall. We only bought some goats milk ice-cream for the children, it was delicious and extremely creamy, because we had been shopping the day before. Mandy was lucky and finished Freya’s ice-cream. [...]
Museum of Childhood
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Nov 252007
Yesterday we all went to the Museum of Childhood which is in Bethnal Green by train. It was really good and the children loved it. They made some masks and went to a lecture about our solar system. There was a Space Age exhibition on which was really good and Robbie the Robot was there!
Hanningfield Resevoir
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Sep 182007
Last Sunday we all went on trip to Hanningfield Resevoir for the afternoon. The weather was perfect and we had lined up a 3½ mile walk, but because Ross was really tired we cut it short by about a mile. We spent a long time in all the bird hides and the boys really enjoyed [...]
Minibeast Safari
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Aug 312007
We all went to Essex Wildlife Trust’s Langdon centre and the boys took part in a minibeast safari which they really enjoyed. Ross and Angus both enjoyed looking at the insects in the viewing equipment. After the session was over we all went foro a short walk to see the geese at the lake. We [...]