Penshurst Place & Gardens is a beautiful historic estate in England’s Weald of Kent, near Tunbridge Wells, and it’s a wonderful place for a day out, with or without children. Penshurst Place feels like a National Trust property, but it’s actually the current and ancestral home of the Sidney family. King Edward VI granted the […]
Helping Hedgehogs in the Hosepipe Ban
With seven water companies set to introduce hosepipe bans from April, and the Environment agency warning that the drought could spread to other parts of the country, we’ve been regaling the children with our childhood memories of the summer of 1976. I clearly remember performing a rain dance with my friends on the school field, […]