Castle Fraser today with the gang, mainly for my nephews benefit as he loves woods as much as I do and doesn't get to spend much time in them.

We had planned to go into the castle itself, for my littlest's benefit really as he always asks and although we go every other week we are more often not there on a Monday when the castle itself is closed. However, in the end we spent too much time playing in the woods are around the pond that we ran out of time.

In the evening while my middle boy took his cousin to play hockey, my lovely husband went got a swim and my mum put the littlest to bed; I took my eldest and his big cousin into the big smoke for book browsing in Waterstones and milkshakes freakshakes in Byron Burger.