Paid collaboration with Welsh Water One of my earliest childhood memories is of a drain lid in the back yard of my childhood home bursting open and flooding our garden with the contents of our street’s toilets. Poo. Toilet paper in all different colours (this was the 1980s after all!)....
Paid association with Dyffryn Gardens National Trust Leaping across wooden stepping stones. Balancing on tree trunk beams. Climbing and jumping across logs. Making tepee dens out of huge branches and leaves. In my children’s words, the new wild play area at Dyffryn Gardens is the “best playground ever”. My eight...
We have an abundance of peanut butter in our kitchen cupboards at the moment. The variety I like – a natural, sugar-free, crunchy style – was on offer… so Cardiff Daddy bulk-bought a little too enthusiastically. I’m not sure if we’ll get it all eaten before the use by date…...
As I mentioned recently, I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed with the busyness of life. And so on Friday morning, in an attempt to escape the bustle of city living for some fresh air and something more serene, Littlest and I went on an adventure to Forest Farm Nature Reserve...
When I was a child, one of my favourite books was a hard-backed collection of poems for children called Days Of Our Lives. It inspired me to write my own poems – something you’ll know I still do as an adult if you read Cardiff Mummy Says regularly. Thirty years...
Fill out school trip permission slip for child 3 and return with payment. RSVP to three birthday party invites. Buy cards and presents for said parties. Book family dentist appointment. Pick up child 1’s prescription. Write thank you cards for gifts received for child 3’s recent birthday. Print out photos...
Thanks to the Hilton for inviting us to stay Cardiff is such a great city when you have a family. It has all the conveniences of a capital city but is small enough to get around easily. It has so many fantastic family attractions – many of them free to...
I haven’t written a recipe post for ages so I thought it was about time I got back to my regular foodie posts. This chestnut mushroom and butter bean Bourguignon is my new favourite dish; warming and nourishing but also healthy too. A vegan twist on the classic beef dish, it...
“Here’s to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.” My darling girl, When you look out at the world, know that you can and will achieve great things. You are strong, sensitive and sassy. You are caring, confident, clever and creative. You are...
*We paid for our meals ourselves and Octavo’s Book Cafe did not know we would be writing this review My daughter didn’t believe me when I told her we were going for lunch in a book shop. “You’re joking, aren’t you Mummy?” she said. “You can’t possibly eat food in...
This time last week I thought I’d be starting this week writing about the holiday house we’d booked to stay in with Cardiff Daddy’s family over the weekend. It was his 40th birthday and his dad turned 70 in January so we’d planned to go away for the weekend to...