[Ad- gifted experience] We go to quite a few video games events throughout the year, and Dann and I have gone to Hyper Japan in the past, but this year the dates lined up so we figured we would take the entire family along. Hyper Japan is the UK’s largest Japanese culture event. As we’ve got kids with sushi packed lunches and a big love of cutesy things, it just felt like they’d enjoy it.
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Dann and I often try to get along to a lavender field, with Hitchin Lavender Field being one of our favorites, but we wanted to check out a new one this year. The Secret Lavender Garden at Mayfield had a lovely Golden Hour ticket and as we’ve been quite busy during the day, Dann and I wanted to make an evening out of it.
This was our second year helping out with the Potter Street Fete, which this year was dedicated to Micky T, who was from Potter Street and had passed in the last year. This fete is an extremely local event, to Harlow, where members of the local community come together to hang out, enjoy the sunshine, and just be together. It’s lovely, full of community spirit, and put on by a bunch of locals who like seeing everyone enjoying the sun.
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[Ad- gifted experience] The Essex Summer Fest is a weekend festival, aimed at families, where you can enjoy music, fairground rides, a selection of different booths selling items, food stands, and several different stages full of activities and music! To make things even better, the Essex Summer Fest is organised by the local charity Mind in Havering, Barking and Dagenham – which is a charity all around mental health, and the money raised by this fest goes towards helping locals who are struggling with their mental health. It’s a very fun time for a very good cause.
We have gone to a few of the different Butlin’s location, but find that Butlins Skegness is our absolute favorite. Robin has been asking to go to Butlin’s for quite some time, so when we had a bit of a long weekend at the end of the May Half Term, we went along! Butlin’s is a holiday park, where you can get a day pass or stay in their various types of accommodation, eating at the resort and doing a bunch of the activities they have to offer. We are a big swimming household, so planned on spending a lot of our time in the swimming area, which was under construction last time we were there.
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