Welcome April

Posted on 12:00pm Sunday 2nd Apr 2017

March feels like it has gone in a blur. We've seen spring slowly creep in with some blissfully sunny days and sparks of blossom budding on the trees. I'm hoping this spring like joy will stay with us throughout April.

Lincoln West Common

March has been a busy one for me with work, our hoops seem to have caught the eye of many a KnittyKnotts customer along with other delights too and most excitingly we won Theo Paphisis Small Business Sunday Award!. Eva learnt to ride her bike without breaking one single bone and Lizzie has picked up her pace at swimming without drowning! I mean these achievements alone deserve a high five surely?

Bespoke Hoops

The children are now on their Easter half term which means it's time to pack up our caravan, alas not the new one because that's not finished being built (we won’t go there just yet) and head off on an adventure over to Wales to visit family, scoff fish and chips, devour ice cream and make as many memories along the way. We are breaking down our trip by swinging over to north Wales for a few days. It's not a place we're we have taken the girls so it can be another place to tick off our list. Of course our adventures are going to be well documented along the way, let's face it I just can't live without Instagram. I'm not quite ready to take a break from IG just yet.

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Taking a much needed family break is just what our family needs and daddy especially. Work is on hold until we get back which will be a relief to my fingers. So I will bid you adios for now but if you do want to follow our adventures head over to instagram and follow #knittyknottsadventures

Let the adventure begin

Muchas Love

Mrs KnittyKnotts

Going On An Adventure to Nostell Priory

Posted on 8:07am Sunday 12th Mar 2017

After a week of being pretty much in lock down due to a rather poorly Eva, a family day out was so very much needed! Now don't get me wrong lounging in bed watching movies eating toast was a welcome treat, I have had harder weeks if I'm honest. We are a family who love to go on an adventure whether it's to explore a woods or body boarding, it's just how we do our family bonding, that and arguing. We have been National Trust members for a few years now and it has been an absolute gem especially when we are away holidaying or saving pennies and in need of a free day out. Living in Lincolnshire there isn't too many National Trust hot spots. We do Clumber Park and Belton House on a regular basis, but this weekend we wanted to venture a bit further a field and somewhere new. So with a pack lunch packed we packed our wellies and headed off to Nostell Priory in West Yorkshire.

The one thing I love about National Trust is how it's geared up for children, with their 50 things to do before your 11 3/4, special activities for the family and not to mention how welcoming the staff are with the girls. Nostell Priory didn't disappoint. Its adventure playground gave our girls plenty of deep belly giggles, from going higher and higher on the swings to conquering the zip wire. With a coffee in hand Mr K and I were already onto a winner.

With it being a lovely spring dry day (yes you did read that right) it was perfect to stretch our legs, tire the girls out some more with a little walk, which shockingly enough didn't result in a threenager being demanded for a picky (carry), before heading into the house for a good old nosy.

I love going around an old house imagining how the other half lived and I think the girls do to, it's the nosy neighbour in us. With a 7 & 3 year old in tow it can be quiet boring, not to mention a struggle to keep well behaved and refrain from touching items that shouldn't be touched or pointing out the boobies and winkies on the statues, but thanks to the staff for getting them to search out the dolls house it kept them easily amused.

It is definitely a place we will be going back to, we need to expolre the Parkland some more perhaps with our bikes next time and one that not only the girls enjoyed but not as much as me and the Mr because it made the girls sleep all the way back home.

Muchas love

Mrs KnittyKnotts

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