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Bouncing Before Breakfast
by Rowan
One little family's big adventures. Capturing daily life through a global pandemic and beyond. Finding the magic in everyday things.
Episodes
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Summer Holiday in Wales 🏴
A family trip to Wales including swimming in rivers, waterfalls, castles, mountains and nature.
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Trip to Legoland 🎢
A home ed excursion to Legoland Windsor.
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Brighton Fringe Festival Family Day
The four of us went to Brighton for the day and saw a couple of shows in the Spiegelgarden, including some acrobatics and improv.
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A new family member 🐕🐕🦺🐩
Meet Zelma, our gorgeous Romanian rescue dog.
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A Trip to Monkeyworld 🐒🦍🦧
We spent a few days in Dorset with some home ed friends, and took a trip to Monkeyworld, a primate rescue centre in Wareham.
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Stephen & Anna's Wedding 💐💖😍
A family trip up to London for our friends' wedding. Such a treat after so long without sociable fun!
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Easter Escape Room 🐰🎁🔒
An Easter themed escape room style treasure hunt.
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One Year Later
A year ago today we started our family podcast, as we went into the first lockdown in the UK. Tonight we shared some reflections from the past 12 months of living through a global pandemic.
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Lights At the Savoy: a Story for World Book Day
A special story about a trip to the theatre in Victorian times, written by 12 year old Katie for World Book Day 2021.
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Getting the Vaccine and Other Lockdown Winter Adventures
Some snippets from January and February including baking, board games, snow, haircuts and ending with mummy getting her Covid 19 vaccine.
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A Lockdown Christmas
Some snippets from our festivities during this unusual Christmas holiday.
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Christmas Baking: Vegan Gingerbread
Baking gingerbread always makes us feel festive, and this year we're perfecting a vegan version.
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Goodbye Artois, The Loveable Rogue
We share stories about our cat Artois, a loveable rogue who made it to 19 years old before he sadly died. Also, a mudcake and a takeaway breakfast.
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Autumn Leaves 🍁🍂
Making the most of fresh autumn days, and enjoying the beautiful leaves and fungi. Bike rides, US election results and Daddy fixes the loo!
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Why Do We Say Hello? ☎️
A catch up with the ladies of the house, including what's been going on at the new school and a fun fact about the word 'hello'.
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The Mermen on Adventures 🧜♂️🚣🏊♀️
Two Sundays in one episode, both with a watery theme. The boys enjoying the water - at Bodiam boating station and then swimming at Falling Sands.
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Do You Believe in Ghosts? 👻
We are getting in the mood for Halloween, with a philosophical dinnertime conversation about ghosts.
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Witches in the Woods
We got our Covid test results the night before Mummy's birthday (negative; phew), and so were able to go out for the first time in a week, and enjoy the day.
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Do We Have Covid-19?
A week after the schools went back, the first illness in six months hit our family. Some of the symptoms corresponded with Covid so we needed to isolate and get tested. The testing part was easier said than done....
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A Trip to the Opera
A birthday in our house meant lunch out and a trip to see The Magic Flute at Brighton Open Air Theatre. It felt wonderful to be supporting live theatre once again.
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The Last Days of Summer
Some random adventures and happenings as the summer holidays draw to a close. Daddy and Kyle went to Chichester Harbour, Mummy and the kids explored a nature reserve, and we all enjoyed a Macmillan coffee morning outside in our street.
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Save the Hedgehogs!
Inspired by our trip to the British Wildlife centre, Katie has started a neighbourhood hedgehog project. We built a hedehog house, cut a hole in the fence, and then something exciting happened....
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A Trip to the British Wildlife Centre 🦊🐅🦌🐭🐀🦡
We learned all about British animals today, on a visit to the British Wildlife Centre. An inspiring and enlightening day out.
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First Ever Family Bike Ride 🚲
All four of us went cycling at Bedgebury Pinetum and found joy in the woodland trails.
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Digging for Treasure
We turned our front garden into an archaeological dig for the day, and found plenty of pottery, plus something else unexpected...
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Watch Out for the Egg Sharks! 🦈🥚
Daddy is off work this week and so we've been having a bit of a staycation. Lunches out in Lewes and East Dean, and a canoe trip with river swimming at Bodiam.
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Arachnid Special! 🕷️🕸️ False Widow and Harvest Mites
We found an exciting spider in the house, and got bitten by some harvest mites (not so exciting) in the woods. Also a trip to Michelham. Priory, where we were able to go back inside the house.
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Welsh Castle and then Home Again
The last two days of our Shropshire holiday. We visited Powis castle and stopped off at another National Trust place on the drive home to Sussex.
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Hawkstone Follies and Trentham Gardens
Days four and five of our little Shropshire holiday. More socially distanced family catch ups, a monkey forest and an interesting hike around Hawkstone Follies.
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Time Travelling to a 300 Million Year Old Sea Bed 🐚
For today's holiday excursion, we travelled to Dolgoch Quarry and Nature Reserve, where we discovered bountiful fossils of ancient sea creatures. A magical and fascinating place.
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Here Be Owls 🦉🌿🌕
Days one and two of our Shropshire holiday. We made a socially distanced visit to see our friend Linda, heard owls outside the holiday cottage, and explored an abandoned mine that's now a nature reserve.
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Selkies in the Rockpools
More sunshine meant plenty of outdoor adventures this week: bike riding, beach time, paddling pool and the woods.
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A Mysterious Object in the River
A day of mudlarking for Daddy and the kids ended up with a minor catastrophe and the finding of a mysterious object. We also went to Scotney castle, and did some cool science experiments at home.
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Making Bows and Arrows
A stressful week with building work going on at home was made more bearable by a few lovely day trips, including a safely distanced event in the Bluebell wood, where we made bows and arrows and potions.
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Beachy Friday 🏊♀️🩱🩳 Rainy Sunday 🌧️ 🇪🇸
We swam in the sea and caught up with cousins for the first time since lockdown. Still socially distanced, but fun evenso. A rainy Sunday led to culinary delights of the Spanish variety.
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Warm Rockpools and River Swimming
Sunny days means outdoor adventures. We've had beach time, a walk up on the Downs (including a visit to an archaeological dig) and a swim in the river. The last birthday Lego set was also finished.
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Last Day at Junior School / First Day Back in the Office
The end of an era for Katie, and a bit of normality back for Daddy. Also, the building of a BIG birthday Lego set.
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IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! 🎂🎉🎈
A lockdown birthday for the youngest in the family. Lego, the big wheel and a Zoom party.
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The Playground Is Open Again
A week in our lives as we aporoach another stage of the lockdown easing. Some rainy weather activities, baking, playing and a trip to the playground for the first time in nearly four months.
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Paddling in the Medway
A weekend of rope swings and bike riding. Exploring a new trail led to some fun splashing about in a river.
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Peas and Cherries
Picking fruit and veg from the garden on the hottest day of the year so far, and thinking about whether to go on holiday in the UK this summer.
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What Noise Does a Wookie Make?
A walk in the woods, baking whoopie pies (which Daddy thought were 'Wookie pies'), our first socially distanced playdate and some theatrical happenings at home.
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Conversations on the Cuckoo Trail 🚲
Some extra bits that Daddy recorded while cycling up and down the Cuckoo trail with the kids this weekend. Topics include virtual reality calamities and slobbering dogs.
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It's All Greek to Me! 🇬🇷
The last day of our themed suppers takes us to a favourite holiday destination: Greece. Kyle retells the Greek myth of The Minotaur, we talk about past holidays there, and have a go at Greek dancing.
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Ramen Supper with Haiku 🇯🇵 🍜
A chilled Friday, rounded off with a Japanese supper and a socially distanced meetup in the park with grown up friends.
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Mouthwatering Moroccan 🇲🇦 and Spontaneous Socialising 🧍⬅️➡️🧍♀️
Two unexpected catch ups brightened the day, and we all enjoyed a Moroccan themed feast for dinner.
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A Bangin' Welsh Banquet 🏴
Next stop on our virtual holiday tour is Wales. We make Welshcakes and Rarebit, and talk about past holidays to Wales.
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Daytrip to Standen House and a Mexican Fiesta 🇲🇽
Our first National Trust visit since the lockdown, which felt like a real treat. Then this evening we had a virtual holiday to Mexico, with Mexican food, music and chat. And of course the obligatory sombrero!
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Around India in a Day 🇮🇳
As we can't actually travel anywhere at the moment, we decided to do mini imaginary holidays every day this week. Today it was to India, which mostly involved cooking and eating lots of delicious Indian food. If you are listening via Anchor or Spotify, the track at the end is from a film called...
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A Very Foodie Episode: Cheesecake, Meze and Milkshake!
We had our first takeout delivery of the lockdown on Saturday night, plus this weekend we made vegan cheesecake and milkshakes.
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One little family's big adventures. Capturing daily life through a global pandemic and beyond. Finding the magic in everyday things.
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