12 March to 3 April 2018
The Baby Tour: Five babies, eight towns, three weeks (in the UK). Two weeks in the north in a hire car circling from Manchester Airport through Shrewsbury, Derby, Sheffield, Redcar, Durham and Ormskirk (or points nearby), before a rail trip to London to visit Greenwich followed by Easter weekend in Lyme Regis. Dave's two new grandsons, my first new grandson and two newish nieces to visit in their natural habitat, and hand over a small stuffed elephant each.
It all went surprisingly smoothly, and mostly according to plan, despite a flurry of snowy weather between Derby and Sheffield. Lovely to see everyone, and we were looked after very well. We continue to be mostly vegetarian, and that worked well too.
The weekend in Lyme Regis, in a low-lintelled cottage in the hills with Mum, Jono and Sarah, with Nick and Mike in a flat in town, was rainy, but the cottage was cosy and we had one fabulous Easter Sunday morning following the receding tide along the beach ahead of the crowds, searching out our very own ammonites.
Here are the babies, in the order we visited them (there were also, in some cases, siblings, but this is only a quick record of our time, not a family album):
The Baby Tour: Five babies, eight towns, three weeks (in the UK). Two weeks in the north in a hire car circling from Manchester Airport through Shrewsbury, Derby, Sheffield, Redcar, Durham and Ormskirk (or points nearby), before a rail trip to London to visit Greenwich followed by Easter weekend in Lyme Regis. Dave's two new grandsons, my first new grandson and two newish nieces to visit in their natural habitat, and hand over a small stuffed elephant each.
It all went surprisingly smoothly, and mostly according to plan, despite a flurry of snowy weather between Derby and Sheffield. Lovely to see everyone, and we were looked after very well. We continue to be mostly vegetarian, and that worked well too.
The weekend in Lyme Regis, in a low-lintelled cottage in the hills with Mum, Jono and Sarah, with Nick and Mike in a flat in town, was rainy, but the cottage was cosy and we had one fabulous Easter Sunday morning following the receding tide along the beach ahead of the crowds, searching out our very own ammonites.
Here are the babies, in the order we visited them (there were also, in some cases, siblings, but this is only a quick record of our time, not a family album):
Dave's grandson, Vinnie
My niece, Penelope
Dave's other grandson, Jake
My other niece, Penny
and my grandson, Noah
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