…Sorry it’s been a while!

It’s been a while, I know and that’s not to say we haven’t been busy- the trouble is we’ve been too busy! My last post was before we had the fantastic (well fantastic for the first day, fun for the second, too cold for the third and down-right inconvenient by the forth! …is school ever going to reopen?) SNOW!

My husband said I should write about the snow being a great thrifty activity and it absolutely is- snowmen et al, but it is sadly wholly reliant on the weather. Saying that, I thought I would mention that besides spending several of the days at our wonderful Eaton Park, sledging on the slopes, playing snowballs, and gazing at the bright blue frozen solid boating lake, we did discover a little area of Wymondham that will be worth another visit even if we don’t see the snow again.

We took a drive out one day (before it got too bad) to Wymondham and parked in Cemetery Lane car park, where up to an hour is free and £1.00 per hour thereafter. This is a nice big car park near the railway station– which in itself is a lovely historic station, with a good bistro, toilets and great views of the tracks from the pedestrian bridge. We took a lovely walk/ sledge around Tolls Meadow nature reserve, which is only a one minute walk in the opposite direction to the train station from the car park and free to visit. When we were there it was covered in several centimetres of snow but from the information on the website it looks like a real haven for wildlife and definitely something I will be taking my little bug hunters back to visit for an afternoon once the good weather finally gets here!

Over the last couple of months alongside our usual very thrifty adventures we have had some not quite so thrifty days out, but made the absolute most of them. A wonderful Easter visit to Bewilderwood where we met Cedric the Easter Bunny, the very breathtaking Framingham Castle, Church Farm Stow Bardol ph where we saw and fed our first lambs of the season and The Dinosaur Park (we have a season ticket so we have been spending a great deal of time there!) I will probably expand on some of these as I update alongside my super-cheap days out, as I think there may be some useful tips I can share with you.