Hide and seek at the Forest of Bere
January 9, 2015
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Tin Box Tot loves the great outdoors and in the past few weeks she’s wanted to explore it even more.
It may be the wintery weather that’s captured her attention or just a desire to be a bit more independent as she approaches the grand old age of two, but when we visited the Forest of Bere recently she refused her pushchair.
Up until then we had been taking it along on walks just in case she tired. But this time we decided to take a risk and leave it in the car.
The Forest of Bere is near the beautiful little market town of Wickham. There’s a couple of car parks around the forest and we usually go for the West Walk as it has a loo and two adventure play grounds.
There’s often a little van serving coffees, cakes and sandwiches as well – although when we visited between Christmas and New Year it was on holiday.
West Walk is made up of 350 hectares of the remaining part of the Forest of Bere and is used by dog walkers, cyclists and horse riders.
Tin Box Dog loves the Forest of Bere – there’s always lots of other dogs for her to make friends with and she can run through the trees like a loon to her heart’s content.
I think the Tot must have been inspired by TBD as she also wanted to go off the beaten track and explore the trees. So Mr Tin Box – the big kid – thought it might be fun to a play hide and seek. 
We’re going to have to give TBT some tuition on the finer points of the game as she wasn’t very good at finding trees big enough to hide behind!
However, she was having so much fun that we didn’t miss the pushchair at all. She asked Mr TB for a ride on his shoulders a few times when we hit a hilly section but generally wanted to go under her own steam.
My little girl is growing up fast!
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Lovely photos and looks like a great place for a walk. Glad Tin Box Tot and Mr Tin Box had fun playing hide and seek, love how little ones don't really manage to hide properly but you still have to pretend you can't see them! 🙂
Its been awhile since we had a walk in the woods! I miss it. Thanks for sharing yours =) #countrykids
It's great that she's getting confident enough to want to explore more than just the paths through the woods. I love playing hide and seek in the woods with toddlers, they find the perfect non-hiding places and believe you truly can't see them. Thanks for linking up with Country Kids.
Adorable isn't it. Thanks for popping by x
No probs. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share these priceless moments 🙂 x
There is something magical about woodland walks. I hope you get to do one soon x
What great fun and lovely photos. There will be no going back with the buggy now, it's always a worry when you decide to leave it in the car for the first time x
It's been going well so far, but I'm not sure how TBT is going to take it when her little sister arrives and take over. She's bound to regress 🙂 x
We love walking in the woods, and it looks like you all had a wonderful time. It's great when you can start leaving the buggy behind sometimes 🙂 #countrykids
What what a big step leaving the pushchair. I remember worrying about that moment always thinking of the amount of stuff I'd cram under the buggy and now I'd have to carry it! The forest looks like a great place, good luck with the hide and seek tuition 🙂
Lovely post & piccies 🙂 makes me realise I need to do more walks like this with my baby x
It was liberating and I particularly enjoyed not having to put it back in the car 🙂
Luckily, or unluckily, the basket under TBT's pushchair is shockingly small – one of the very few things that lets it down – so we hardly use it anyway. I'm used to being a pack horse for the change bag 🙂 I think there's a lot of work to be done on hide and seek tactics but Mr TB can be in charge of that. I'll leave them to it and sneak off for a coffee 🙂
Thank you. Fresh air is great. We like to get out as much as we can when the rain stops this time of year 🙂
I love your hide and seek photos. Looks like a beautiful place to explore with the kids. I need to get mine out of the house and playing outdoors again. We tend to hybernate during the winter. haha its been so windy though. I am glad you had such a great time together. So cute. Thanks for linking up to Share With Me. Sorry if you had any trouble commenting on my site today as the host is being transferred there are a few glitches to fix. Apologies. #sharewithme
Sounds like a nice fine walk! I miss walks like this =) #sharewithme
I know, the urge to hibernate is strong with me too. We're not out every day, I promise, but it does help to blow away the cobwebs! I must pop back to your blog post as I tried to comment, but it kept failing. Fingers crossed it's fixed now!
It was lovely and there was a slight frost. I love crisp days! Thanks for popping by 🙂