Carrying on from yesterday’s theme I found these wonderful memories with my son and the treasure we found when out Christmas shopping. The steps and fitness stats aren’t epic but remember this was just an average Sunday doing chores and the Fitbit can only show part of the health story. Much gets missed and can’t be recorded yet. A big …
Finding treasure
The photos here are about the great deals and finds you can get by stepping outside and exploring. The summer for me was all about boot sales because many are I. The country in the middle of a field. So I get to shop in the English country side. This time of year it’s more about Christmas fayres and the …
Dark mornings and epic skies 😀
Learning to use my smartphone camera has made me fall in love with bad weather. It may have been cold and dark but the skies and scenery on this 10 minute morning stroll were epic.
Why I Started the day with a smile. Mince pies, pears, strawberries and grapes #roadtochristmas
Today was one of those super busy change your plans at the last minute kind of mornings so this is one trick I use to make a celebration of it. The mince pies need toning down and the fruit often needs sweetening. The mince pies are clearly indulgent and the fruit is clearly healthy. Together they make gorgeous flavour and …
Sunday photo. 5,4,3,2,1 start your engines
Just a little Sunday morning fun with my best little friend. No furniture just play and using my body in ways I don’t during the week. So much fun
Create your path: Invest in knowledge
If you want to create your dream lifestyle it’s really not that hard but it does take work and it is possible. You might think that the dream of a healthy happy life isn’t open to you but it is. For the same reason that a Lion doesn’t ponder its health as long as it just gets on being a Lion …
Being creative is not a hobby…
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House of cards: My thoughts
I love all the shows and I can’t wait to listen to the audio book (I don’t have time to actually read it :-)). I’m still getting to grips with how the US version ended in season 3. It wasn’t as clear cut and dramatic as the british version but I’m not sure that really matters. I still can’t wait …
Hackaball – A programmable ball for active and creative play
I want to see a lot more of things like this. Active play. Check out their kickstarter project. They even get to program the ball themselves. This really sounds too good to be true.
The day I learned my grandad worked with a genius
It’s not everday that you find out that your grandad worked alongside a world renowned genius. I’m not sure how much you know about Milton Keynes, the city in which I live, but it continually astounds me that it is actually world famous. Not in an obvious way because plenty of people in the UK wouldn’t know where it is …
Big Hero 6 movie review by a dad of a 3 year old
Big Hero 6 was a film I wanted to see right from the first time I saw the trailer and one of the best things about having a 3 year old boy is that I get to watch kids films like this.
Thursday linky lessons
So I have joined the weekly kids co-op link party and the thursday favorite things blog hop to find more great articles and bloggers. This is a collection of the great articles I found.
Getting fit: New horizons
The trick I have always used in my life to achieve anything that seems impossible or difficult is to work at it every day. I often don’t do much but make sure I do something, no matter how small.
A Play day at the family gym!!!
Building on the idea of using christmas to get fit and healthy through a parent workout today has been all about play because we had a little day off with our little one. right now I am that happy tired you get after a day with an under 5 and I know I had a proper workout. The big treat was …
Parent workouts: Christmas lights switch on
Last weekend I had begun to fully appreciate just how much a special family moment can be a parent workouts because we were at the MK official christmas lights switch on which was1-2 hours of carrying the wee man. It may not sound much and you may wonder why the carrying is necessary but everyone was standing and had kids on their …
Parent workouts
So you are a parent, you have no free time on your hands, probably little money and you are always tired. Yet somehow some bright spark decreed that getting fit can only be done either 1) In a big building that you have to pay lots of money to enter and then do stuff that makes you sweat. You will spend …