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Posted on May 20th, 2012 - Fiona

Ssshh It’s Sunday, no words needed…… 

Posted on May 19th, 2012 - Fiona

8 go to the Festival

Family days out for us are beginning to get easier. With 6 small children I used to worry all the time when we went out to crowded places for fear of losing a child, now that my youngest are 8 and the eldest 14, we can enjoy a country festival, relax with a meet up point and give the older children the freedom to wonder round alone for a while. Lostwithiel is a lovely quaint Cornish inland town about half an hour from Coombe Mill. Large enough to host the annual festival, but small enough for the children not to get lost!

Plenty to do

Organised by local residents, the weather on our side the children were mesmerized by all the entertainment. It had such a lovely community feel to the day with so many local groups happy to demonstrate their talents from bands to craft tents and dancers to food stalls, a real country affair! As the Samba band played on into the late afternoon we met up with friends down by the river. My children remembered a favourite activity from last year, not strictly part of the festival, but across the river a tempting piece of rope dangled from a tree. It was just an open invitation to my children who were over the bridge and providing the alternative entertainment before you could say “where did they go?” They are Country Kids after all!

I hadn’t noticed the children near me on the near bank throwing stones ominously close to mine; just as well they didn’t hit them. Needless to say there were more wet than dry by the time we left, and many complaints by the following morning at school time of hurting arms and tummies from hanging on that rope but it will be fondly remembered as a fun family outing.

Joining In What have you been up to recently outdoors with the kids? Do share those fun moments with the children enjoying outdoor adventures. Country Kids is all about enjoying anywhere outdoors with children, whatever the weather! If you have a picture or 2 to share please grab the badge and join in, then take a look at what others have been up to and be inspired by the outdoors. One lucky post each month will receive a free Coombe Mill Sun hat like mumofthreeboys did for April. 

Posted on May 13th, 2012 - Fiona

It’s Sunday and we are still waiting, Sshhh….may be today? 

Posted on May 12th, 2012 - Fiona

Who sabotaged the Tractor Feed Run?

This past week we have had quite a few regular guests with school age children. I know it isn’t the school holidays but many have made the long weekend at the last minute or taken a few days off school to make it the week. Either way we had a lovely group of boys aged about 7 – 12 who had a ball with the freedom of the farm.

Too old for tractor Rides? While Clio has been joining in and helping our out younger guests with feeding the animals, my triplet boys, Guy and Jed together with their older brother Theo have been thick as thieves with the other boys staying. They have formed a real boy gang taking great delight in not joining in on the feed run, but instead stalking and ambushing from a distance. With Tree climbing, hiding and plotting obstructions, they have been having a wild time, of cause under the assumption that we had no idea what they were up to. Ahem, boys, with that din, we could hear you coming a mile away! We saw this one in the making whilst we were busy feeding the lambs and Dotty our pregnant pig, it seemed a shame to spoil their fun so all the parents and I played along with their game until the tractor was coming, then it really did have to be dismantled before an accident happened! It is lovely to see the children, who might in another setting have found a farm a little to young for them , actually forgetting their grown up persona at home, leaving behind the trendy gear and gadgets and just being like kids of old and enjoying some good old country play.

Country Kids is for everyone

I love to see what others have been up to and to share outdoor play ideas, so please join in, grab the badge and link up your adventures anywhere from the garden to the beach. 

Posted on May 6th, 2012 - Fiona

Sunday Cuteness at Coombe Mill……….Ssshh! 
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