Our Norfolk Housesitting home

This is our gorgeous home for the next two weeks. We can hardly believe our luck. Coupled with the wonderful weather we have due for the fortnight, it is set in a little village, up a lane, and (much to Lillys delight) a retired horse riding farm - so lots of older ponies and horses in paddocks and stables.

Amongst our charges for the fortnight are two beautiful wolfhounds, three cats, chickens and fish.

Its a wonderful home - we are very spoilt to have a bedroom to ourselves - heating!! and TV.. so so blessed.

We are central to alot of National Trust places - so will spend the afternoons every day visiting these places - as we will be doing chores and homeschooling etc in the mornings. 

Build a fluffy bear...

Something that the kids desperately wanted for their birthdays was a build a bear - bear... so I caved and we went along to the chainstore to discover how it actually worked.

Its a very slick process, probably costing pennies in total - but with such clever marketing and add ons, a fifteen pound bear can end up accessorised and dressed up for triple that price.

The kids bears now have two outfits each, and a 'pawsport'.. too cute.

The process sees you choose a unstuffed bear/animal, go to the stuffing machine to get it filled with love ( and a red satin heart you have to kiss and plant a wish on) and THEN you go and start choosing outfits, accessories and creating a birth certificate for it.. far out!

Our French Cottage

How impossibly cute is this? We broke our trip back from Germany to stay in a little farm house in Flanders. A little out of the way, it as well worth he trip. Our hostess was so lovely, it was a shame to only stay for a day.  France is, to my shame, a place I have driven through to get to other places and not somewhere I have spent any amout of time getting to know or explore.  I have spent a bit of time ( a few weeks here and few weeks there )  in Paris - but like London is not the UK, Paris is not France.   I have sworn to return!!