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...
Thanks to the New Theatre Cardiff for inviting us to see Horrible Histories: Terrible Tudors in exchange for this review My children are obsessed with the Horrible Histories TV show at the moment. They love the Terry Deary books too but there’s something about the TV show, which blends gruesome...
*Disclaimer: I am working with Dirty Protest in a freelance PR capacity but have not been paid to write this article One of my other jobs is working as a freelance PR, helping companies promote what they’re doing to the press. I’ve recently had the pleasure of supporting Dirty Protest...
Paid collaboration with CJCH Solicitors Cardiff Mummy Says is delighted to be working with CJCH Solicitors on an ongoing series of articles exploring legal matters relating to families. The series has already covered how to appeal a school admissions decision if your child didn’t get into your first-choice school; why it’s so important...
Paid collaboration with Wallace & Gromit’s Musical Marvels and Carrot Productions Animated favourites Wallace & Gromit are coming to Cardiff this summer with Wallace & Gromit’s Musical Marvels UK tour, a live interactive experience for families, featuring specially created animations as well as live orchestral accompaniment. The show comes to...
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...
Friday 1 March is St David’s Day – a celebration of our national patron saint and all things Welsh. Usually when the children are in school they’re sent in wearing traditional Welsh costume or Welsh rugby or football shirts. But this year, St David’s Day fall in half term and...
Paid collaboration with The Red Dragon Centre The stereotypical Mothering Sunday morning usually begins with a long lie-in and breakfast in bed. But that’s not the case this year for me (not to mention a good few hundred other mums) who will be forgoing a morning in bed to take...
Thanks to the New Theatre, Cardiff for inviting us to see the show in exchange for this review “Fair play, that was absolutely brilliant,” were my husband’s words as we left Cardiff’s New Theatre last night after watching Billionaire Boy The Musical. And he’s right. The musical stage adaptation of...
This is a paid collaboration with The Royal Mint Experience The 50p coin is, according to Matthew, our tour guide at The Royal Mint Experience in Llantrisant today, the most-collected UK coin. More of us than ever before are squirreling away the seven-sided silver coins because we can’t get enough...