My first trip to the Barbers shop (Alfred age 5)

Mummy said she would cut my hair. We watched a YouTube video of the style I liked (the "slick rick" haircut).  It looked easy.  I sat very still and mummy got the clippers out (just like the video said to) and began...but mummy kept pausing and rewinding the video tutorial...and I was getting fed-up.

Finally mummy confessed she couldn't quite make my hair look like the video style and said she'd better stop there - and would take me to the barbers the next day to "fix" it!

This wasn't how I wanted my hair at all!!!

The next day mummy telephoned a nearby barbers shop called "Sirs Only".  They said no appointment needed - just turn up.  So that is what we did.  Mummy had to explain she couldn't get my hair right herself.  We showed the barber a photo of how I would like my hair to look.

Luckily the barber knows how to cut hair properly. She said she'd had a lot of practice cutting hair before and a short while later I was ready to leave the shop looking like this:

I will definitely go back to the barbers when I need a trim.  The barber is nice and my haircut only cost a fiver! 

Spectacular Sunset

Tonight's sunset was beautiful:

The Wishing Woods

This weeks walk took us to The Wishing Woods.  We set off from the carpark of The Horse & Jockey pub near Curdridge into the woods.  Following alongside the estuary the paths were all muddy as expected after the long and wet winter.  The blue bells were just beginning to flower along with celandines and daffodils too.

We found there are some unusual features along this walk:

Tree Time?

There is also a magic fairy tree - which has been here a great many years.

You can write a letter to the fairies and put it into the letterbox.  The fairies will write you a reply which you must collect!

I have been told that over the years the fairies hand writing has always remained the same...

Further on along the walk there is a field in which you can picnic or play - and the Estury with swans and other wildlife to watch.  It's a very tranquil place.

You can see here some older trees have fallen but the woods are still beautiful and it's a lovely walk.