[Ad- gifted product] You’d be surprised how much these children like bugs. I feel it all stems from Kai’s ant farm, which is living in the corner of his room, but Robin also is a huge fan of bugs and bug collecting. She was very excited when she saw the My Living World Bug Photography Kit, which has everything you need to capture and take a closer look at the bugs that you find.
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Autumn is a really fun time of year – nature changes, bringing together warm colored leaves, lovely shades of red and orange, and a bunch of new fruits and vegetables that are ripe and growing. When I think of autumn, I think of the leaves – pile sand piles of leaves, crunching under your feet. This had me wondering what others thought of and could find around them that really represented autumn. I have actually gone ahead and asked a bunch of other bloggers to share an image they took that reminds them of Autumn, and to share a bit about them, to see what everyone has seen this autumn.
The picture I choose was all of our feet in the autumn leaves. There is something amazing, as I said, about autumn leaves. We have shared a lot of photos over Blogtober of all of us doing Autumn activities like pumpkin picking and haunted trails, but there hasn’t been a celebration of crunchy rings before. which is why I choose it.
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[Ad- gifted experience] From the creators of Lightopia, an event that Dann and I look forward to every single year, Dino Kingdom is an interactive dinosaur experience with a dinosaur walk, that we were all very interested in going too. Lightopia is more aimed at adults, with a lot to see and not quite a lot to do, however, Dino Kingdom is a smaller scale event, with a of interactive rooms and points for children to enjoy. We decided to go up to Nottinghamshire for the Dino Kingdom event, which was in a massive park. The car park for Dino Kingdom is a bit far away, so you will find yourself walking down a trail full of jokes and dinosaur facts, which was a nice way to lead us where we were going.
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We have been out to several pumpkin farms at this point, but were still looking for Halloween related events to get the kids to for the October term. Capel Manor Garden is a local, huge, historical garden that we’ve always wanted to go too, and they have a Halloween Festival, so it felt like perfect timing. Capel Manor Garden is a huge location, with over 30 gardens, a zoo, various activity buildings and so much more on offer.
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[Ad- gifted product] I recently wrote that I’m definitely not a coffee snob, but that I’m finding myself drinking more and more of the stuff as a result of a combination of working from home and the general feeling of listlessness that lockdown has imparted on most people. Thanks to boxes like Barista Box, and a few of the other ones out there, coffee can become a bit more than a means to an end, though. Rather than hoovering up instant coffee to push back tiredness, it invites you to dabble in Americanos, Espressos, ‘Lattuccino’s, and, simply, to take a bit more care in the crafting of a cup o’ coffee.
Most people reading this are already buying coffee, although I’d imagine that the vast majority of you are still – as I was not too long ago – using instant coffee. There are reasons for this, it’s quick, it’s cheap, and over the years people have managed to get it to deliver enough flavour variety that people feel like when they’ve found one they don’t mind, they can stick with it comfortably. But, a lot of these same people are quite happy to spend £4-5 on a coffee when they’re out and about. Kits like the Barista Box can massively undercut that rate, and you also get some equipment which help you further bump up your drinks at home.
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