Category: North East Days Out
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The Storyteller – Northern Stage
The Storyteller is a local guy called Chris Bostock. He is familiar to most of the children in the Newcastle area due to the fact he regularly performs in workshops for local schools and community groups. The girls and I had been to a storytelling workshop at our county Thinking Day event for Girl Guiding last February…
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Souter Lighthouse – Cadbury’s Easter Egg Hunt
Its the Sunday of the Easter Weekend and it was time for another Easter Egg Hunt. This would be the last one for us this year. The problem was the weather was really starting to turn. The wind was picking up and Souter Lighthouse is right on the coast (being a lighthouse ‘n all!). Catherine:…
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Washington Old Hall – Cadbury’s Easter Egg Hunt
It’s the Saturday of the Easter Holidays and I was determined to get another Easter Egg Hunt under our belt this year. The Kids love it and in my book, if the kids are happy, so am I. Catherine on the other hand needed a little more persuasion to visit. Catherine: The Forecast is for…
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Wallington Hall – Cadbury’s Easter Egg Hunt
On the first bank holiday of 2016, Good Friday, we loaded the car up with the picnic rug, a cobbled together picnic of miscellaneous items and clothing for every season. The weather forecast was good and the girls insisted I go through the drawers looking for last years sunglasses but in reality it was definitely…
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Treasure Island Morpeth – Easy Children’s Party
Abigail wanted her 5th Birthday Party at Treasure Island Morpeth. As she’s just started school, this is the stage of party planning that can busy. If you’ve got children at school, no doubt you’ll remember that year of no spare weekends. Parties in the morning and the afternoon. Generally, the kids want to invite everyone from the…
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Clip n Climb Cramlington
We needed to be up dressed and ready for our date with the Rainbows at Clip n Climb Cramlington, our newly opened local climbing wall at Concordia Leisure centre in Cramlington for 9.30am. No time for lounging around!! One day I’m sure I will get one of those Sunday mornings you see people enjoy on the telly……
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Chinese New Year on Stowell Street
For the past few years we’ve started to head down to Stowell Street to join in the Chinese New Year Festivities. The noise and colourful pageantry is an amazing sight to witness. Fire Crackers, Devil Bangers (now called “fun snaps”), paper stretch out dragon and a variety of street food. If the weather is warm…
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Planning Summer 2016
Holiday dreaming. It’s that time of the year when you mind wanders to the dream of summer. Endless sunshine, trips to the park, flip flops, barbecues and my favourite drink of all time… Pimms. Even if the weather gods chuck in a north eastern downpour the kids soon get used to soggy sandwiches and the…
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In the footsteps of Hadrian… preparing for the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge
Way back in October, Alan messaged me to say his friend David Wilson was organising a weekend overnight trip to the Yorkshire Dales in April and if I fancied it? Never one to miss an opportunity to drink wine away from the children (sorry Imogen and Abigail!) and head out into the great outdoors… away…
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Color Obstacle Rush Newcastle
2015 changed my life in many ways. Most were in a positive form. Cat had decided to start the Couch to 5k with her friends on our estate. To which I thought about rounding up the husbands to do the same. I’ve never ran properly in my life. I was always the kid at school…