Paid collaboration with The Red Dragon Centre Usually about now I’d be publishing my guide to local family-friendly events over the school Easter holidays. In fact, I think this is the first school holidays since 2014 where I haven’t written a list. Because, as we all know, the current Covid-19...
*Contains affiliate links We’re back with another round-up of books we’ve enjoyed reading recently… we’ve certainly been getting through more books than usual during the Covid-10 lockdown. Some of these books are new releases, some of them are old favourites. There’s a mixture of fiction and factual as well as...
I’m going to be honest in the hope that anyone else finding it all a little overwhelming right now will feel less alone… Today has not been a good day. I have had a lot of emotional wobbles. And more than a few tears. It’s been stressful waiting for the...
I want to start this by saying that these are unprecedented extraordinary times. Our main priority is to get through the next through weeks/months as best we can. We are not being asked to replicate school at home or to create mini geniuses whilst simultaneously working a full week, and...
I have moments where I find myself questioning if this is really happening. Am I dreaming? Did I imagine it? And then there are the moments when I wake up (on the nights I can sleep… because often I am wide awake, unable to switch off) and I forget for...
*This post contains affiliate links. Online community is going to be more important now than ever before, as we all spend more time indoors, social gatherings are cancelled and public places are closed. With that in mind, I’m doing something I have been thinking about for a long time but...
When one of the mums in the class WhatsApp group mentioned she’d heard children in other cities and countries were putting pictures of rainbows in their windows as a sign of love and hope in such uncertain times, it struck me as such a wonderful thing we could do when...
A photo popped up on my Facebook memories recently of my children at Techniquest toddler day – the once-a-month event where the science centre opens its doors to the pre-schoolers of South Wales – and it got me thinking about how much I loved those days. With that in mind,...
There are so many fantastic theatre shows and live performances coming to Cardiff and the surrounding areas this spring, summer and beyond, from top musicals such as The Lion King and We Will Rock You at Wales Millennium Centre, to TV favourites such as Horrible Histories live on stage at...
We paid for our tickets to School of Rock ourselves and the theatre did not know we would be writing this review. This review was originally written in July 2018. I’ve updated it today after the news that School of Rock the musical is coming to Wales Millennium Centre in...
We’re back with another round-up of books we’ve enjoyed reading recently. Some of them are new releases, some of them are old favourites. There’s a mixture of fiction and factual as well as picture books and chapter books. Some we own ourselves, others are borrowed from our local library. All...