Summary – April to June 2025

The last three months have been quite busy with holidays, weekends away and trip for work. The summer will be more relax as we are staying home. Here a summary of the main things we have done during these spring months.

Read our January to March 2025 summary here.

Horsey windpump, Norfolk
Horsey Windpump – Norfolk April 2025

Personal Life:

During these spring months, we enjoyed the nice weather, had great barbecues at friends, went to several kid birthday parties and of course enjoyed some great holidays and weekend away. I think for Marcus the highlight was the train ride on the La’al Ratty.

I am trying to finish the paint by number painting that I started a couple of months ago but it is an hard one so I am slow at making progress. We also bought a new computer as my laptop (nearly 11 years old) is going to die soon so I am in the process of transferring all my photos to the new desktop and at the same time organising them so I can print some to hang in the house. That is going to take time as you can guess I have thousands photos.

High force waterfall, North Pennines, England
High Force waterfall, North Pennines

Walking:

We have done some nice walks in Norfolk, in County Durham and also close to our home during the past three months. I still need to write some of the walks we did in Norfolk.

Udale Plantation, Lake District, Cumbria
Udale Plantation, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England

Travelling:

In April/ May we spent two weeks in Norfolk. We enjoyed our time there. The scenery is very different to Cumbria but there are so many things to do from visiting historic places to walking in natural parks. Then we went to Durham for the bank holiday end of May. Again another great city and countryside that we enjoyed visiting. And I spent 4 days in London mid-May for a training. These months were very busy so we relaxed in June.

Crook Garden, Durham
Crook Garden, Durham, England

Blogging:

I have managed to travel and keep up with writing my blog posts so I am happy with myself. I still have a couple of blog posts about Norfolk to write, which I will do over the summer. Here the latest blog posts.

La'al Ratty train, Ravenglass - Dalegarth, Lake District, Cumbria
La’al Ratty train, Ravenglass – Dalegarth, Lake District, Cumbria

Books:

I read a bit less during the spring months; however I have started to read again in Spanish. I have also bought several books in French, English and Spanish so I am sorted until at least next year with everything I have to read. I read / listen the following books (in reading order).

Durham

Blog discoveries:

Finally I am sharing some great blog posts written by fellow bloggers in the past three months.

I am now looking forward to the summer months and to read all our adventures.

Did you enjoy your summer months? Any books you recommend? Any new hobby you started recently?

Norwich Catedral
Norwich Cathedral

Find all our adventures in UK here.

26 thoughts on “Summary – April to June 2025

  1. Its been a very busy month, I bet you’re looking forward to some more relaxing time now! I’m glad you enjoyed joining us at Cannock Chase – I’ve enjoyed finding some new blogs to follow from your suggestions, especially the Jersey blog, as my eldest goes away with his scout group to Guernsey this summer so it’s nice to read up about what’s there 😊

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  2. I guess it will get easier as Marcus gets older, but you have to enjoy every stage because it passes so quickly. Glad you’ve been making the most of your year so far. Enjoy the rest of summer and many thanks for the link xx

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  3. I have still never been to Durham, but would be interested in visiting one day (I have friends in Newcastle, so it’s a possibility!). It sounds like you’ve had a busy few months with lots of adventures further afield and closer to home 😊

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