Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
100 Birds to See In Your Lifetime is a part aspirational encyclopedia and part identification guide, that provides detailed summary information and range maps, along with beautifully written profiles featuring unusual facts, anecdotes and its significance. This book title by David Chandler and Dominic Couzens published in 2008 has been revamped with a brand new cover and will be available to buy from 4th April 2019 onwards.
After much stormy weather, last Saturday, we finally had a beautiful morning that we decided to go for a walk in the park. We live within easy reach of Sutton Coldfield but have never been to Sutton Park before. Sutton Park is a large urban park. Most of the park is a National Nature Reserve and large parts are also a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Natural wood versus smartwatch. Natural wood wins! Not long ago, we came across JORD who are a wooden watches company and we fell in love with the notion of a timepiece that uses natural materials. Their watches look very unique and has proved to be quite the talking point.
JORD Wood Watches are based in the USA and they ship international. We received the watch very quickly with registered mail. Mr C went for the Fieldcrest Series black wood watch. This is a classic midsize watch. The monochromatic wood face, bezel, and strap serve to showcase the intricacy of the wood grain. It has a stainless steel deployment buckle with push button. In fact, it is very easy to push and release the buckle but at the same is very secure on your wrist. The watch is very lightweight and has scratch resistant mineral. Out of the box, the straps were too long for Mr K. So we used a small screwdriver (for spectacles) to push the Individual links out and shorten it. It can be a bit fiddly to do so you can always take it to a watch shop to do it for you.
Welcome to Week 29 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! We are in August now and we are preparing back to school materials and catching up with their school assignments. What about you?
Recently, I wrote a local guide for Lichfield for tots100 – if you have not seen it, click here. Barton Marina is one of the places I mentioned. It is a unique Trent & Mersey canal-side attraction with fantastic cafés and restaurants, shopping and fabulous walks around the beautiful lakes and woodlands. We love to take our children there for a bike ride around the lakes and to eat ice cream.
Yesterday, we had our photo shoot to update our blog photo with our regular photographer – Susannah Conway Photography. I am so excited that I can’t wait to update it soon! After that, we drove down to Barton Marina for Thai food! It had been a long time since we last ate Thai food! They had a buffet menu and there was a good selection of foods. It was very delicious and I would recommend going again.
Mr K is at the age of being inquisitive about the workings of the world and wants to learn more about nature and wildlife. Yesterday, we went to Paradise Wild Park and he got so excited to meet the meerkats and have breakfast with the tigers!
