Quick link: You can sponsor us here. What a year it has been! I never thought the run-up to my first marathon would be full of so many twists and turns. When I got the email confirmation last August from Tommy’s to say I’d been given a place on their...
AD/Paid collaboration with Adopting Together/ St David’s Children Society “A lot of people think we must be mad to adopt two children who are so young but it feels like the most natural thing in the world to us. We always knew that we wanted to adopt siblings and it’s...
If you’ve been reading Cardiff Mummy Says for any amount of time, you’ll know how much I love days out in the great outdoors and writing about them here. However, I’m prefacing this blog post with a huge Covid-related disclaimer: please stick to current lockdown rules, respect local loackdowns, the...
AD Paid collaboration with Wales Recycles and Welsh Government How good are you at recycling? If you live in Wales, chances are you’re pretty good because as a nation we are currently the third best in the world. Welsh households currently recycle 63% of their waste, with only Singapore...
Ad/Paid collaboration with Working Wales and Adult Learners’ Week 2020 Now that my children are all back in school after six months at home, it’s time for me to go back to school too. Well, not ‘school’ exactly, but I am taking part in Adult Learners’ Week 2020 with...
Like a lot of families, we truly embraced cycling during lockdown. We biked along some lovely routes here in Cardiff, taking the Taff Trail to Bute Park and Cardiff Bay in one direction, and Forest Farm and Radyr Weir in the other, on a regular basis. It was a great...
Paid collaboration with Amgueddfa Cymru / National Museum Wales Amgueddfa Cymru Food Festival is going digital this year, with more than 60 online events taking place across the weekend of Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September 2020 – and the majority of them are free. From live cook-along sessions and...
Paid collaboration with Working Wales I was a bit apprehensive when Working Wales challenged me to take part in this year’s Adult Learners’ Week. The idea of finding space in my brain for anything more than juggling my own work, my children and life in general amid these crazy Covid...
It was the final day of term for most schools in Wales today. And what a term it’s been. Whoever would have thought when our children entered their classrooms back in September 2019 that the academic year would end as it did? Even when the children started back after February...
It’s been a hard four months, hasn’t it? We’ve all been affected in different ways. But undoubtedly the Covid 19 pandemic of 2020 has shaped all of us, and will no doubt continue to shape us, as restrictions ease with the underlying worry that a second peak is imminent. Right...
(The images in this article have all been widely shared on social media. I am sorry I do not know the original sources to be able to credit them) My eight-year-old son cried when I talked to my children this morning about George Floyd and police racism in America. Proper...