We’ve discovered yet ANOTHER wonderful nature reserve, just 15 minutes drive from our house! Nykelviken! A place to picnic… (Maya and Alfie enjoyed the various picnic chairs carved from wood!) A place to see animals… (Also chickens, rabbits, cows and horses) A place to discover the wonder of a hollow tree stump… And to play… [...]
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Blueberry Picking In Nykelviken
Posted in Green Areas Around Stockholm, Journeys and Trips on July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Felting A Rainbow Mat Fresh From The Lamb!
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Books, Building and discovery, Green Areas Around Stockholm, Journeys and Trips, Nature, Seasonal, Sensory on May 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We had a bit of a woolly day yesterday. We visited Överjärva Gård because it was… … ‘lambs day’! And Maya just LOVED them! Amused by the shrill “b-a-a-a-a-a” of the lambs calling their mothers… The ferocious PULLing of the feeding lambs… And slightly scared by the sudden loud (and very deep) bleating of the mothers! [...]
We Still Love Eggs Even Though Easter Is Over!
Posted in Books, Building and discovery, Green Areas Around Stockholm, Journeys and Trips, Nature on April 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We’ve been doing a lot of learning about something special over here… Eggs! We found a little organic hennery just ten minutes drive from our house, and took a visit… Above we see the egg packing machine, and the many boxes of eggs all ready to drive to the supermarket – Below we see the [...]
I Can See The Ground!!!
Posted in Green Areas Around Stockholm, Journeys and Trips, Nature, Seasonal on March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I do believe that Spring is in the air! After four months of masses of snow we’re enjoying watching it melt… The sun is shining and the birds are singing – and is that a crocus bud I see? And look! We can see the old leaves! And pick up sticks without wearing gloves! And [...]
Hanging Out At Crocodile Rock!
Posted in Green Areas Around Stockholm, Journeys and Trips on February 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s been in the minus 20s here, and we’ve got friends from England to stay – so I thought it best we got them bundled up in thermals, and outside to experience that Arctic cold! We headed down to our local lake… No, it doesn’t look much like a lake right now. With snow a [...]
The Untouched Snow
Posted in Building and discovery, Green Areas Around Stockholm, Journeys and Trips, Nature, Seasonal, Sensory on February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Richard had promised Alfie ‘a walk on the ice’, so yesterday we went off to the lake with Alfie and his friend… As you can see, the snow lay untouched on top of the iced over lake, and we had it all to ourselves! A perfect time for making tracks…. And for spotting which animals [...]
Incredible Ice!
Posted in Building and discovery, Green Areas Around Stockholm, Journeys and Trips, Nature, Seasonal, Sensory on February 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
When the snow starts to melt, and then it rains, and then freezes outside, and snows again – things become very icy! What better a day then, to explore the elements outside? We headed off to Barn Sjön, my favourite little lake, to have some fun…. Explore a thick iced over ‘water fall’… Or a [...]
A Real Farm
Posted in Green Areas Around Stockholm, Journeys and Trips on January 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
‘Uddby Gård’ is a real working farm, as most of the farms still are in Sweden. It’s not there for children to ride tractors or climb hay bales. It’s real, and very rustic! With beautiful sunsets on a cold winters day… And no trip out could be without a visit to the farm cafe’ for [...]
Winter Time At ‘Alby Friluftsgård’
Posted in Green Areas Around Stockholm, Journeys and Trips, Seasonal on January 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Alby is one of the many ‘friluftsgård’ (s) near us – a mix of nature reserve and open air recreation area really – a place where you can walk, swim, cycle, ski, skate, hike or sledge, according to season. On a sunny snowy winters day this is a really fun place to visit… It’s difficult [...]
A Winters Day At Hellasgården
Posted in Green Areas Around Stockholm, Journeys and Trips, Nature, Seasonal, Sensory on January 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
It was a beautiful sunny day – time for a walk….. Hellasgården is one of the many nature reserves in the area, a very pretty lake in the forest, complete with log cabin cafe´, featuring open fire and delicious mugs of hot chocolate! Now it may be tricky to see, but in the distance here [...]
