Pooh sticks on Tower Bridge

The basic premise of the game “pooh sticks” is to stand on a bridge (over a river or stream), drop sticks over the upstream side and see which stick emerges first on the other side of the bridge.
I cut up six twigs to roughly equal size then Tess and I chose three each at random. [...]

Snow angels in action

Making snow angels… in summer

I wanted to make snow angels back in winter but there was very little snow in London. So I bought some fake snow from here and we made them on our roof terrace, with the sun shining down!

Rolling on our sides down a grassy bank

Tess decided not to roll down this grassy bank as we are trying for a kid and she may have just conceived! So Ben did it with me instead. Here is a photo of the rash i got from the grass and flowers we rolled over!

Planting an English Oak

I searched online for a website that sold tree saplings and found this one: http://www.greatbigtrees.com/Products/
I picked an English Oak and it came all nicely packaged in a plastic tube with planting instructions. Ben (Tess’s brother) is staying with us and we all went down to Clapham Common to plant it there as our roof [...]