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We are train fanatics. I am not ashamed of that. I collected the original Thomas the Tank Engine books as a child and have now passed them on to my own children. We have watched almost every episode and every film as well. Matthew and Anya’s passion for trains has waned somewhat but now we […]

I have already shared this photo on my post about Chris’ birthday but basically I am still buzzing about Star Wars three days later! There were so many thoughts and questions I had whilst watching which I then forgot about in my excitement 🙂 I guess we’ll have to go and see it again… Happy […]

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 […]

OK so the time has come to think ahead. Only 3 weeks to go. As usual I asked the kids what they wanted to do, after all it is THEIR break from school. So what did they choose? A trip on a train No surprises for guessing this was Matthew’s first choice! We live halfway […]