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It is almost the autumnal equinox so it’s time to wave goodbye to summer for this year once and for all 🙁

You may recall that I set our family a summer bucket list…well, how did we get on?!

• A trip on a train

We cheated a bit on this one. We didn’t go on a modern train which is what I’d intended, but we did visit the steam railway on the Isle of Wight

• A picnic

Lots of picnics on our holiday plus one at Marwell too.

• Time with cousins and hopefully a sleepover

Not as much time as we would have liked and the sleepover didn’t happen as Zach has been a NIGHTMARE sleeper this summer 🙁 Nate and Leah did sleep over at my parents’ house which is only 2 streets away so they did spend some time together

• Ride bikes

Another semi success. We went out a couple of times but nowhere near the once or twice a week that I’d hoped for. The weather just wasn’t good enough 🙁

• Buy a paddling pool

Hurrah, we bought not one but two paddling pools. Boo-hiss, they are still in their boxes. Where was the hot weather in August??? It certainly wasn’t in the south of England…

• Playground

The children had plenty of time to play on park equipment over the summer

• Sleep in a tent in the garden

Complete success! I was freezing all night but we had a fab time

• Cinema

Another complete triumph! I took Matt and Anya to see Despicable Me 3. We were the only people there!

So to be perfectly honest, I have no idea where most of the summer went and I feel a little disappointed that we didn’t manage to fulfil all of aims (mostly due to the weather 🙁 ).

We had a fun time and that is what counts!