With the sun shining on Good Friday, we escaped the city for an afternoon of hills and woodlands at Garwnant Visitor Centre – our 12th ‘free’ day out in the challenge we set ourselves to visit 52 free family-friendly places in South Wales in 2019. Five miles north of Merthyr...
Paid collaboration with Bit Pit National Coal Museum The last time we visited Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenavon, my youngest wasn’t quite big enough to take the underground tour. He and my husband had to stay above ground while my two older children and I journeyed 90 metres...
Paid collaboration with Treads shoes Like so many great inventions, Treads – the indestructible school shoes that are made in South Wales – came about out of frustration. Dad of three Simon Locke was so fed up of having to continually replace his son’s school shoes that he decided to...
A paid collaboration with The Red Dragon Centre It’s the last day of term for most Cardiff schools tomorrow, ready for two weeks of Easter holidays. If you’re off with your children or grandchildren, or perhaps you’re visiting Cardiff, and wondering how to entertain the little people in your life,...
I’m still putting together my big Easter holidays events listings… there’s just so much going on but hopefully they will be with you soon. In the meantime, here are 16 family theatre and live performances happening in and around Cardiff from now until the end of the month, with the...
This interview was provided by St David’s Hall but is an unpaid collaboration. Like a lot of families, we have a shelf-full of books by Julia Donaldson. We have around 40 – although she’s written around 200 children’s books and won countless awards for her timeless tales. Her collaborations with...
Paid collaboration. Cardiff Mummy Says is a blogger ambassador for The Red Dragon Centre, Cardiff Bay. . Is a trip to the cinema on your family agenda this month? There are plenty of fantastic films to choose from, with Disney’s live action version of Dumbo having just been released and Missing...
*I work part-time for This Mum Runs as Community Coordinator for Cardiff. However this article about the Cardiff Bay 10K is not something they have asked me to write; I’m doing it because I felt so inspired after yesterday and wanted to help spread the word. “When women support...
To all my mum friends this Mother’s Day, I never dreamed when I got pregnant that I’d meet so many wonderful women along my motherhood journey. In fact, I initially approached the women I met in antenatal classes and pregnancy yoga with a little bit of trepidation. This was because...
The thing I found hardest about our car crash last week was that I wasn’t able to protect my children. It’s such an instinct as a parent, to want to keep our offspring safe and away from harm. There was a split second when I could see the car wasn’t...
Paid collaboration with The Village Hotel, Cardiff Like a lot of families, we love going out for a Sunday lunch. It’s such a treat to have someone else do all the cooking and, even better, all the clearing away and washing up too. However, it’s not always easy to know...