This photo popped up in my Facebook memories recently. I remember the day so well. My daughter, our first baby, was a week old and it was our first proper trip out away from the house as a family of three. Those of you who live in Cardiff may recognise...
Paid collaboration with Working Wales What do I want to be now my children are growing up? It’s something I’ve been asking myself a lot recently. When I was younger the only career I was interested in was being a journalist and I was privileged to spend a long time...
Those of you who have been reading Cardiff Mummy Says for a while will know how much I love soup. I eat it all year round, but it’s especially good at this time of year when it’s still so cold, wet and miserable. The soup is so warming and comforting...
I haven’t written a children’s books round-up for ages so I thought the start of the new year was a good chance to resurrect this old series and offer out a few recommendations of books we’ve been enjoying recently. In this series we share the books we have loved reading...
Paid collaboration with the Welsh Government and the Childcare Offer for Wales It’s a new year, a new decade, and, for many of us, a time to get organised. If you’re the parent of a 3 or 4 year old, or a soon to be 3 year old, then you...
Thanks to Wales Millennium Centre for providing us with tickets to see The King and I in exchange for this review. One of the joys of my children inheriting my passion for musicals is seeing them experience some of the all-time greats for the first time. Such was the...
Thanks to Wales Millennium Centre for providing us with tickets to Red in exchange for review Red may be inspired by Little Red Riding Hood but this new family theatre show, produced by Wales Millennium Centre and Likely Story, is nothing like the fairytale most of us are familiar with....
Thanks to the Celtic Manor for inviting us to review The Nutcracker on Ice and for a family skating session at The Great Skate If you’ve visited or driven past the Celtic Manor Resort over the last few months, you will have noticed the huge new International Conference Centre Wales...
Whether you’re looking for a pre-Christmas treat or something to do in that time between Christmas and the schools going back, you can’t go wrong with a family cinema trip. My own children get cinema vouchers every year from Father Christmas, giving us the gift of time and an experience...
If you’re reading this, then you’re probably feeling the same as me following the election results – sad, deflated, scared, helpless. Your mind is probably in overdrive worrying about how much worse things will get over the next five years when it comes to poverty, the environment, our schools, the...
Thanks to the New Theatre for providing us with review tickets for Cinderella in exchange for this review A trip to the New Theatre’s panto is always one of our festive highlights, with the grown-ups enjoying it as much as the children. Last night’s press performance of Cinderella lived up...