This Saturday I shipped Laurel up to Lancaster for a bit of grandparental fun involving Wassailing. For those of you who don't know (and I didn't) wassailing is a pre-christian new-years and fertility ceremony performed to ensure a plentiful harvest of fruit (and thereby booze) for the following autumn. read more...

For Laurel's big birthday treat we took her out to the Blue Planet Aquarium near Chester. This was inspired by her excitement at the fish at Chester Zoo and turned out to be spot on. read more...