The Cupcakes Go to Cambridge ~ Beyond The Ice House 2017


Every 2 years we venture up to Cambridge to visit family and listen to local music at Beyond The Ice House on my Aunt and Uncles land. We meet up with cousins from Cambridge and Portsmouth plus Grandparents, several aunts and uncles and a lot of friends of the family including a real friendly bunch from Mount Dora, America, who were camped out in the meadow we were in.

The Mount Dora Crew

The ice house is an invite only event my Aunt and Uncle run every couple of years. There are drinks, live music, loads of food based on the bring and share theme plus laughter, games and plenty of people to chat to. The main aim of this event is not just about having a good time but raising money for Camfed, a charity that works to educate girls and support young women in rural communities in Africa. My Uncle worked in Zambia years ago and saw first hand the lack of education for girls. Ever since then Beyond The Ice House has raised money for the charity. The total I've just seen for this year is £6550.15 which is AMAZING

The Holiday

As usual we had ourselves a little caravan, it was difficult to be here given this was our first holiday as a single parent family. The kids took a day to adjust too. By Saturday we were all much happier. We had bacon in the field in the morning, then went in to Cambridge (that was a near disaster, thankfully my friend rescued me!) we managed to catch up a bit whilst the children played but didn't spend nearly enough time together so have decided to do a girls day out somewhere in the near future!

When we got back it was pool time which is probably the highlight for all the children. Mr K met us at the house too which was so wonderful. We all got to chill out together with the children getting to know him a little before going back to swimming. We listened to some local bands and some American groups (including those folks from Mount Dora who got people in the spirit!)


Here are some photos from the holiday:
With thanks to my sister 






 I asked the children what their favourite bits of the holiday were:

Midge: "My very favourite part of the holiday was having loads of fun in the swimming pool, especially when I swam on my own! I loved seeing all my cousins so much"

Little A: " I liked the swimming pool and eating 'macon' (bacon) in the morning."

A successful event and a successful first solo parenting holiday for me!

Cupcake Mumma

5 comments:

  1. What a fantastic thing for your Aunt & Uncle to do, it sounds amazing. So glad to hear you all had such a great time x

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    1. Thanks Angela it really is fantastic xx

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  2. Lovely post Hannah and glad you all had such a great time. Icehouse has become a wonderful way of getting our far flung family together and that is one of the things I love about it the most. Love you all so much and will post this to my Mount Dora crowd too xxxxxx

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    1. It's so wonderful it's easy to say why you're begged again and again to hold it! Plus the amazing fundraising for the girls. Thank you I hope I enjoy this :) xxxxxx

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  3. I enjoyed it very very much Hannah and the caravans are available any time over the summer xxx

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