After a week of rain…rain…rain… Thursday dawned sunny and dry so we headed off for a day on The Heath… We went on foot and on wheels… We had a lovely picnic… Then it was time to explore… Nooks… … Continue reading →

It was a rainy afternoon…Michael wasn’t sure what to do…we found a competition for the best alien…so he set to work! We found lots of crafty things in Nannie Lee’s art cupboard There was some glueing… And some inspiration from … Continue reading →

As we walked through the village last week we found some beautiful leaves on the ground… we looked up and found that they were from a Maple Tree beside the footpath… The leaves had turned yellow, brown and red…we picked … Continue reading →

This Autumn at Norton Priory they are having a ‘dig’ excavating more of the priory which is very exciting… We have the opportunity to have a mini dig of our own…what would we find…wearing our special Indiana Jones hats? We … Continue reading →

The apple tree’s in the orchard at Norton Priory are weighed down with fruit this year… We had a delicious Autumn picnic and then helped to pick up the windfalls… There were lots to collect… It was fun to explore… … Continue reading →

We had another lovely afternoon at Norton Priory… we brought some bow and arrows… We practised our technique… We pretended to be knights of old… Shooting our arrows… We found some odd shaped graves…Nannie told us they were called sarcophagis’s … Continue reading →

Nannie Lee tidied out the toy cupboard under the stairs…and she found lots of things she had forgotten she had! We love playing with dough…so one morning we opened some brand new play dough that had been in the cupboard … Continue reading →

Now we know that some berries are not good to eat…and we mustn’t eat any berry without asking first… The hedgerows around our village are full of berries we’ve spotted hawthorne…sloe…honeysuckle…rosehips…elderberries…but this year the blackberries are the most abundant…the bushes … Continue reading →

Michael loves to take photos like his nanna so he borrowed her camera at The Walled Garden and captured some lovely images all by himself! Well done Michael your pictures are beautiful…

The walled garden at Norton Priory is in full bloom…we walked through the dappled woods to our ‘secret garden’ after we’d explored the priory… The borders were full of beautiful plants… We saw some friendly bees… and banks of gorgeous … Continue reading →