Paid collaboration with Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival is returning to the city for its seventh year – and Cardiff Mummy Says is delighted to once again be a family blogger ambassador for the event. As a family, we are passionate about reading and books and have...
Thank you to the brave Cardiff mum who contacted me to ask if I’d support her in raising awareness of bowel incontinence after giving birth and a share details of a new support group starting in Cardiff later this month. She wants to stay anonymous – but she wants other...
Many families will move to a new house at some stage and some do it more often than others. And they say moving to a new house and getting married are the two most stressful times in a person’s life. Well, what if your move involved not only a house...
One of the reasons I started Cardiff Mummy Says was because I kept on hearing about events after they had happened and often found myself left disappointed at missing out on something I knew my children would have loved. With that in mind here’s 47 family theatre shows and other...
If you’ve been reading Cardiff Mummy Says for a while you’ll know we’re a family of book lovers. Reading stories to my children has always been one of my favourite things to do and it’s been a big part of our bedtime routine ever since my eldest was a few...
We set ourselves the challenge this year of visiting 52 free family-friendly places in South Wales during 2019. Some of the places will be ones that are new to us but others will be some of our favourites. We’ll be documenting them all here on Cardiff Mummy Says and over...
It was my friend Kate who first introduced me to Parkrun. As I’ve written previously she and I both coincidentally started running for the first time in more than 10 years during the same week. I wasn’t sure at first about running so publicly when I couldn’t run for more...
Paid collaboration with The Red Dragon Centre The Chinese New Year begins on 5 February 2019 until 24 January 2020 – and this year is the year of the pig. The pig is the 12th in the 12-year cycle of Chinese zodiac signs with recent pig years including 1923, 1935,...
Remember back in the olden days when you used to have to wait a week between episodes of your favourite show? And if you missed it you’d have to rely on a friend or the synopsis in the TV guide to tell you what happened? Then along came DVD boxsets...
This is a paid collaboration with The Independent Pharmacy Ah, pregnancy. That time of life when you are blooming and radiant and…. well, let’s be honest… not everyone feels blooming and radiant all the time during pregnancy. You might have morning sickness or heartburn or feel the need to pee...
I’m sure I’m not the only one who made the resolution to read more in 2019. I pledge the same every year with varying degrees of success – it’s not easy to find the time when you’re a busy mum. But I did read several books I loved in 2018...