Thank you to Horrible Histories Terrible Thames river tour for providing us with review tickets for the experience As huge fans of the Horrible Histories books, TV series, film and theatre shows, we were thrilled to have the opportunity to step on board the Horrible Histories Terrible Thames river tour...
Thanks to Wales Millennium Centre for providing us with review tickets for this show I’ve been reviewing theatre shows for more than 20 years and I don’t think I have ever seen a standing ovation mid-show – until last night’s press performance of Dreamgirls, that is. Seeing an audience rise...
Thanks to The Riverfront for inviting us to review Wonderland The curious world of Alice in Wonderland is the inspiration for Wonderland, an interactive and immersive walk-through experience at The Riverfront Newport, this spring. We headed along today and were so impressed with the whole experience. where nothing is as...
Paid collaboration with FOR Cardiff We had an extra special assignment today to kick-start the school Easter holidays – we headed to St David’s Centre in Cardiff to be among the first to see the Nick Jr BrickLive trail which sees 15 favourite characters from the channel bought to life,...
Wow, we are really spoiled for choice when it comes to family-friendly events this Easter. Looks like everywhere is making up for the last two years of lockdown. These school holidays see a number of fab family trails, with The Dog’s Trust Snoopy Trail bringing painted sculptures of the famous...
Paid collaboration with Techniquest We are huge Techniquest fans in our family. We’ve been regular visitors at the Cardiff Bay science centre for a good 10 years now, since my eldest was a toddler and my middle child a newborn baby when we’d regularly attend the attraction’s popular Toddler Days....
Thanks to Wales Millennium Centre for providing us with review tickets to We Will Rock You When We Will Rock You The Musical opened in 2002, it was panned by the critics. The Guardian called the premise “as sixth form as it sounds”; The Mirror said “Ben Elton should be...
Thank you to the New Theatre Cardiff for providing us with review tickets for Cluedo “Hilarious and dramatic” are the two words my eight year old used to describe Cluedo, currently at the New Theatre, Cardiff until Saturday as part of its UK tour. And in fairness, I think he...
Thanks to Wales Millennium Centre for providing review tickets for Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! We might be closer to Easter than Christmas, but convention has never been on the menu for acclaimed choreographer Matthew Bourne. And so, amid the unusual March sunshine, my 12 year old daughter and I found ourselves...
Thanks to Welsh National Opera for providing us with review tickets for Play Opera Live As Tom Redmond, our host for this afternoon’s family concert, jokes, the orchestra of Welsh National Opera are used to performing in the pit underneath, so it’s great that they didn’t get lost trying to...
I put off writing this half term events guide because I was waiting to see how things were looking with all the Covid restrictions. As I’m sure you can imagine, they take a while to put together so I didn’t want to do all the work for no reason. Well,...