One of the nicest things about having children in different schools is that the inset days are usually different. This was the case yesterday with Toby going back to school a day earlier than Amy, giving us the chance to spend some extra time together. After breakfast we headed off to the woods where the bluebells were out. Sadly they were a little past their best but still scented the air and made the woods more magical than ever…
And then we came home to make (and eat) a cake together
A peacefully perfect day to finish off the Easter break.
little cotton rabbits 
The bluebells are lovely, and the squirrel is so cute! What a wonderful relaxing day. The cake looks amazing!
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I love bluebells, we also take a walk in the woods this time of year – we better do it soon if the bluebells are getting a little past it.
The cake looks yummy!!
S x
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Such pretty pictures, esp. the close up of the bluebells. They look like fairy caps!
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I’ve never seen so many blue bells in one place! How magical!
I’m soooo glad you were able to spend such a special alone time day with your daughter.
As important as those moments are, it is really hard finding them when other children 😀 take up so much of our time and lives!
Your day together sounds just perfect! And I love that you ended it with cake. 😀
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Oh the bluebells look stunning. What a perfect morning out. And the cake–mmm! K x
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The bluebells are amazing! I’ve never seen anything like that before. I love your photos. What a fun day you had!
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Looks like I checked in just in time to catch your news hot off the press! – how wonderful to have that precious time with your lovely Amy and the photos are amazing
Davina x
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Such beautiful pictures. How lovley for you and Amy to have a girly day. I love my mommy/daughter days still and mine is 21!!!
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The bluebells have been astonishing this year – aren’t we lucky to have them?
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Snap! You and I are blogging along the same lines this week Julie. 🙂 We visited the bluebell woods too on Sunday, such pretty flowers!
Lovely to have an extra day with Amy and some yummy cake too!!
Vivienne x
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Bluebells are lovely here too – there’s something magical about them every year. Great photos, Julie.
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As a teacher, I often hear moans from parents that we can’t co-ordinate our inset days with other schools! To be fair, these are often working parents who find child care difficult, but it is lovely to hear a parent see this as a perfect opportunity for ome quality time with one of their children. Glad you had a lovely day together. I can only surmise that this is even more important for you and Amy as Toby must be quite demanding on your time. Hope you have a lovely bank holiday weekend.
Becky x
PS Lovely photos!
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oh, what amazing, perfect photos. I actually have a photo very similar, from a field of bluebells that my husband and I found just off from the M4 on the way to Bristol when we broke down and had a wander while aiting for a tow truck (and had only been dating a couple of months). Thank you for reminding me of a very happy memory!
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Wow, beautiful pictures of the bluebells!
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What a lovely day for you and Amy, those Bluebells are stunning xx
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Sounds like a perfect day. I could almost smell the bluebells.
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Oh, that is so lovely. It makes me want to pack everyone up and move to the UK.
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When we were in Huntingdon, we visited a little Norman period church, just a bit of a walk from the dairy farm gone bed and breakfast we had stayed in the night before. I remember going in through the wooden gate and being stunned by the drive up to the church, through trees like the ones in the blue bell wood – huge and ancient, dusted with green, with tiny flowers growing in the bowls between the great roots. It was a drive straight out of Austin. it looked much like the paths running between the drifts of bluebells you show me here. So many small places in England hit me with waves of home, as if I’d only been away, and just come back.
There is one place here, far up into the mountains where there is a stand of ancient pine – there, the path is thick with needle mast, and the roots, running along the surface of the ground, make a sort of staircase down to the springs below. It is the only place here that comes close to this. How lucky you are to live so close, and to have been able to go there, just the two of you.
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Going in for day surgery today and haven’t been able to eat or drink since 7.30am and seeing that beautiful cake is making me sooo hungry I think I’ll be treating myself at the local bakery to a large slice of victoria sponge when I come out! Yum! yum! 🙂
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How lovely to be able to spend a girls’ day together! Lucy x
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Your photographs are beautiful and the cake looks delicious! Glad you had such a nice day.
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A carpet full of bluebells – looks so magical and the cake looks gorgeous too. Both are so quintessentially English looking!
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Oh my!!!!! The bluebells are just gorgeous!!! Thanks for sharing!
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The blue bells look lovely!
Regards,
Resmi
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Beautiful photo’s!
I’ve been enjoying the bluebells too, here 🙂
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what a beautiful magical place… did you seen any fairies?
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Days like those are precious and often treasured in years to come. The cake will have topped things off perfectly, I’m sure. Pleased you enjoyed the Easter break too.
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Very lovely. It’s the reverse days that do me in–when the other children have school, and Olive does not!
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Thank you for the lovely walk in the woods. Don’t see things like that here in Florida! I recall from childhood walkinging in German forests and playing in daisy fields. What grand memories. It is good to see people still enjoy things like that.
So glad you had a special day with your daughter in such gorgeous surroundings.
I think ending with cake is perfect!
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What gorgeous photos – your last two posts gave such a wonderful snapshot of the Spring!! So glad your Easter break went well and you were able to spend that very special day with Amy. Do hope Toby has settled back into school and that you are finding some time for gardening and knitting. Mmmm .. the cake looked so good!!! JennyH.
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Lovely, and you got a squirrel bonus as well!!
PS the new haircut is a hit, I remember when I took the plunge and had mine all cut off, must have been a similar age.
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I really love this time of year. At the end of today we were blessed with a beautiful rainbow and a lovely pinkish/purpley sunset that was breathtaking..All at once…And a friend of mine has a field of wild lupins. Reminds me very much of your bluebells. I love your pictures and posts. I hope things are going well for you and your family.
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I dream of going to a bluebell wood like this someday J.
Thanks for sharing such lovely photos of your day there.
Such a time to cherish. Love to you all, Kat xxx
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how wonderful the bluebells are – glad you had some time together!!!
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