(If you missed the original Christmas mouse hole post, read it here first.)
We checked on “our” mouse hole this week, and discovered a gift had been delivered to the mice.
Mouse Hole Update
Take the Kids to London
A Fun Quarantine Project
My kids and I have often walked past this house on our road and wondered about this curious little hole next to the front door.
It’s not connected to a drain pipe or anything at all. Is it some sort of coal hole? The place the milkman left the milk bottles? A Floo Network portal to the Ministry of Magic, house-elf service entrance?
The girls and I decided a while back that it must be a very fancy mouse hole, for a very posh mouse.
So last week, we made a mouse and some decorations and moved him in. (Free pattern and instructions for a hand-sewn felt mouse found here.)
Christmas at Kew
Christmas at Kew met—no, exceeded—my expectations.
I have heard for several years that Christmas at Kew Gardens is a must-do Christmastime outing in London, but this was our first time. You have to book tickets really early—we booked in JULY. And we were really lucky we happened to have a dry evening on the date we booked.
We’ve been to Kew Gardens before, but this was a completely different experience. (And Kew Gardens is very much worth a visit during the day, with or without kids.) Continue reading
Naughty or Nice?
In London at Christmastime, you can be both, all in one packed week. I’m clearly setting out to confuse Father Christmas right down to the deadline.
Remember the long weekend this summer when I did All the Things? This was the week in which I did All the Christmas Things.
Chelsea in Bloom
I’m rewinding back to May for this post. (I’m no longer fussed about chronology on this increasingly sporadic blog of mine. As I say to my kids, you get what you get and you don’t get upset.)
To go along with the annual Chelsea Flower Show, the King’s Road and its cross streets, along with Sloane Square and Duke of York Square, get a floral makeover for a week, called ‘Chelsea in Bloom.’
