I'ts all gone a bit quiet here.......

[Flier]

Come and say hello .
Let's see how many people will admit to living in this neck of the woods.

It's okay, they all have days like that, TM

I have the opposite problem, spend half my time tearing after ds

Pink is also my ds's favourite colour, so I'm sure they will soon be firm friends, bonding over the pretty shoes

Birthday meet up would be fab, Flier's dd can have an extra birthday on the 26th so she is left out

TM I didn't think anything of it, we all have days like that, in fact I was surprised that dd wasn't at all clingy, she normally is at toddlers and we go every week!

isn't left out I mean

Flier - hardly saw your dd she was off playing so much

I know! it was a first, I can tell you that
Altho was funny when dd and TMs DS were discussing the bear coming out (I thought it was a squirrel?) anyway they were both terrified at the thought of it coming out like it did the last time dd was there

I can see their point though Flier - even as a proper grown-up I find the thought of an 8ft fun-fur squirrel mildly alarming. And kids aren't daft - given its size, a bear is far more plausible

Twinkle I really didn't think you were preoccupied - there have been times DS has been a real cling-on and I have felt like taking him somewhere far away and tying him to a tree for five minutes to get a bit of space . I can definitely verify your DS's eventual love of the ball pool though

I feel bad with groups of mums because when he's like he was yesterday I spend so much time dashing off mid-conversation to retrieve him from battering someone else's child/stealing food/investigating places he ought not to be, I feel really rude.

The conclusion we can probably draw from this is it's [always] just a phase

Too true - it is all just a phase

That giant squirrel is freaky, I agree...

TM - I am really enjoying "your" website and we are planning lots of family walks!

Hey, thanks for looking at it Wallace! I'm pretty pleased with it although I'm very conscious of how much work still needs to be done to almost every record on there. Still, it'll keep me in a job until I retire.

So that's what they were on about Flier. I wasn't quite sure how the "bear" came up in conversation!

Ooooh TM I meant to say, it's brilliant!

DP and I were out for a walk yesterday and came across somewhere really cool and found it on the archive afterwards . It was also reassuring to find a document saying it was unlikely to be developed for access purposes, because it's such a tranquil spot (and we don't want to share it with a million tourists ).

It took me a loooong time to find it via the Council site though though - they should definitely give you a link from the homepage.

Thanks for taking the time to find it FM! You're right about the link. I'll definitely look into that now - I bet loads of people give up. In hindsight I should've just told you to Google it - much quicker to find it that way.

OOh FM, you'll have to tell me where

It is so nice to find out about the old ruins we always visited on family walks as kids.