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The Little Welly

March 30, 2019Posted in Family AdventuresTagged blogging, Cheshire, family, Family day out, fun, June, kids, life, Little Welly, Mud, muddy, Muddy fun, Northwich, obstacle course, plans, Riley, Robyn, sophie, The Gilmours, The Little Welly, travel, weather, weekendLeave a comment

We are excited to be going to The Little Welly for the first time this year.

We plan to attend on the 29th June and share our experiences with all of you, unless you are coming along then do feel free to join us in our muddy adventure.

Sophie, Riley and Robyn are super excited to be going along

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Let your kids Go Wild, Get Muddy and have a ‘Best Day Ever!’

The Little Welly Lands in Northwich, Cheshire

Get ready for a whole dollop of outdoor, muddy fun as The Little Welly – the UK’s largest obstacle course for children – arrives at Arley Hall and Gardens, Northwich, Cheshire on 29^th and 30^th June.

Especially created for kids aged four to 12, The Little Welly obstacle course has more than 30 challenges over a 3km route. It includes climbing walls, a huge water slide, scramble nets, balancing poles, foam pit and of course, lots of mud! This unique, interactive experience provides an exciting, energetic adventure in the great outdoors and promises to create family memories to last a lifetime.

Sophie (9), Riley (7) and Robyn (3) are super excited to be going along and have an adventure of a day. We haven’t seen anything like this before and want to share it with all of you.

Let us know if you are going to try and make it.

The Gilmour’s

Snowday Funday

February 10, 2019Posted in Family AdventuresTagged blogging, daughter, East Yorkshire, family, Frozen, fun, GilmourFamily, hubby, Hull, Jennifer Gilmour, kids, life, love, montage, Riley, Robyn, sledge, sledging, snow, snowball fight, snowballs, snowday, snowing, snowman, sophie, The Gilmours, weather, weekend, youtubeLeave a comment

Last weekend we had so much fun in the little snow that came to us in Hull, East Yorkshire. Grabbing the sledges out of the shed that we had bought on offer last year it was time to finally use them… and what fun we had!

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The Gilmour’s

8 to 300 by Riley Gilmour

September 8, 2018Posted in Geocaching AdventuresTagged Brantingham, Brough, family, fun, Geocaching, kids, life, memorial, milestone, Riley, Robyn, sophie, telephone box, village, war, weather, weekendLeave a comment

Hi, my name is Riley. I am 6 years old and I like marshmallows.

We only had 8 caches until we got to 300!

We went to Brantingham and our first cache find was next to this war memorial (GC7GW1Z).

I found the Geocache at the well, it was fun and I liked it because it was a magnetic cache (GC7GVC9).

There was a cache in this telephone box which was now a place to find out information. It was a fantastic cache but unfortunately we didn’t find it, so we will come back another day and try again (GC7GV8N).

We went for a drive to find some cache and dash Geocaches because it had started to rain, we still got to our 300!

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By Riley Gilmour

With some help from Mummy

Plan plan and plan…

June 10, 2018Posted in Geocaching AdventuresTagged Cache, caches, daughter, family, fun, Geocachers, Geocaching, hubby, life, love, map, organisation, plan, Rigby, Riley, Robyn, sophie, trail, walking, weatherLeave a comment

Sometimes Geocaching comes with planning and funnily enough the planning comes down to me, which I enjoy!

Yesterday we had planned to go on a trail that a fellow Geocacher we had met had created. We’ve been meaning to do it for a while but it was obvious with three children we weren’t going to be able to do it all in one go as the whole trail is around 7.5 miles long. Walking along could take us around 3-4 hours (considering Robyn’s tiny legs at times), if we were caching this could potentially double it.

For this outing I printed out the map so I could decipher what the cacher was explaining on his description at the first GC. If you read the description you can see what I mean.

See the first cache at GC4Z0J0 if you want to check it out.

This time I had informed my mum in law (2000SamJack) of our whereabouts in case for any reason we are in an emergency situation. Sometimes you can be out in the countryside without anyone else to see. I’m sure other walkers do this and so we have now implemented it into our caching days out. We also now have a travel first aid kit in our caching bag.

We decided to do the 3 mile segment as the weather wasn’t sunny and wasn’t raining and we could decide if it was going to rain. We also thought it would be a good amount for the children. We had set out at 10.30am and didn’t get home until 2pm so we did spend a while caching. Some were sneaky, we didn’t find them all- but that’s ok as we will return.

When approaching a cache I always sound out ‘100 meter warning’ so everyone knows we are getting close, followed by the hint for that cache we are approaching. If we can’t find it straight away I will re read the hint and on struggling caches we will go through the activity feed to see if a previous cacher has left another clue. I seem to manage and the rest find although sometimes I like to pretend it’s somewhere else and run to the correct location to be a first to find between us, nothing like a little competition.

We had a lovely walk and bumped into a few other walkers (not cachers) along the way. We often giggle because I’m sure people passing us are surprised we are out for a walk as a modern family and often stop and chat to us.

The kids even wore their Geocaching name badges, I love how they are so into our hobby.

Hope you have had a lovely weekend.

Jennifer

Sometimes it doesn’t work out…

May 6, 2018Posted in Geocaching AdventuresTagged Brocklesby, Cache, caches, car, daughter, DNF, Easter, egg rolling, family, flute, fun, Geocaching, hubby, life, love, lunch, oops, pied piper, Riley, Robyn, sophie, sun, SWAG, trail, walking, weatherLeave a comment

Yesterday we planned to spend the bank holiday Geocaching (of course)! The sun is out and it’s perfect weather for some caching fun.

However it just didn’t work out for us on the Saturday. We went out to the Brocklesby Estate and planned to get a good amount of caches since we had been there last year and had realised just how big the trail was! In fact you may recognise the name because we came here for the egg rolling event as well. It’s simply beautiful.

You can find number 1 of the trail at GC3KAC7.

We didn’t start at cache 1 but in fact at cache 10, in quick form our caching day looked like this: We found the first one easy, in fact it was Sophie who found it. The second we had no look. The third we bumped into a whole team of cachers who had set out to do the full 56 in one day! They found the cache for us and we signed the log 😉

We then sat and had some lunch as Robyn was a bit grizzly – to be honest she was very tired. The fourth cache we had no luck, it was more the inability to spend time on it with the three kids getting stung by nettles and shouting they had found it when they hadn’t. We just didn’t feel it and had spent a good few hours having a slow paced day.

Don’t get me wrong we had fun and it was the first time we didn’t mind not caching more, no frustration, we simply enjoyed the glorious sun.

And Robyn was way too interested in all of the mole hills, there were hundreds and she insisted in stopping at each one to investigate.

I better share this video of Rob who was trying to be the pied piper on the way back. The flute was some swag from a previous cache we had found.

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So… if you ever aren’t ‘feeling’ it… it’s ok… embrace it.

Jennifer