In association with Petplan This is Squigglet. Part rabbit, part dog, with a cat’s tail, one eye bigger than the other and a fluffy coat full of rainbow spots and squiggles. Squigglet is a girl. Well, if you ask Little Miss E, my nearly-eight-year-old daughter, that is. If you ask...
Have you have ever been scrolling through Facebook or Instagram, seen a photo of a friend’s child and thought “I have that exact same photo of my kid”. It’s been happening to me a lot recently so with that in mind I put together this list of 19 photos I...
It’s 40th birthday season for me. My own isn’t until the summer but the celebrations are now in full swing with friends born earlier in the academic year than me. This weekend, I headed away for the weekend with my uni girls for the first of two big celebrations we...
This half term has been a long one! We’re seven weeks in and still one more to go before the schools in Cardiff break up on Friday 27th October. My kids are certainly ready for the break. Me too! One of the plus points of the holiday being later than...
Thanks to Wales Millennium Centre for inviting us to review Slava’s Snowshow. “This is bonkers,” Little Miss E whispered to me midway through Slava’s Snowshow at Wales Millennium Centre last night. And indeed, it was bonkers. Not to mention surreal, a little bit eerie, very beautiful, and quite unlike any...
Get ready for some spooky goings-on as St Fagans National Museum of History gets ready for its Halloween Nights this October. Tickets are now on sale – but you could be there for free on Sunday 29th October with this giveaway for a family ticket. All the familiar friendly buildings...
As the unmistakable vocals of Let It Go started blaring on the sound system of the party we were at, my daughter covered her ears, scrunched up her face and started la-la-la-ing as loud as she could to drown out the music. “Ugh. Not Frozen!” she said rolling her eyes...
I loved having my children so close together. The three of them were born in four and a quarter years. Miss E was 21 months old when Little Man O was born and he was 2½ when Littlest Boy I came along. The year when I was on maternity leave...
*In association with Aviva Community Fund 2017* As the clock hits 10.30am, the 280 children of Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Pont Siôn Norton Primary School in Pontypridd file out from their classrooms and onto the yard for their morning playtime. In the junior school yard, an orderly queue forms as many...
We all know having babies is knackering. Broken sleep, feeding and changing your baby in the middle of night, not knowing why they are crying, the physical demands if you are breastfeeding. We also all know having toddlers is tiring too with tantrums and toilet training and kids prone to...
I find those couple of hours between school pick up and tea time can be hard work sometimes. My children are often tired and grumpy after school but paradoxically they still have bags of energy to expel. When the weather is good we often head straight to the park on...