It’s half term next week here in Cardiff with most schools breaking up this Friday. As ever, there’s loads going on to entertain the little ones, from theatre productions to outdoor nature trails and everything in between. I’ve rounded up everything I can find for half term and also for...
I’ve never really been a fan of Valentine’s Day. I find it overly commercialised and cheesy and, if I’m honest, rather cringeworthy. I don’t think there’s anything romantic about being 10th in line to buy a dozen red roses three times their usual price in your local supermarket, or sitting...
* Thanks to The New Theatre for the review tickets Way back in the summer of 2009, I saw The Sound of Music stage musical for the first time. I’d been working as a freelance PR for a theatre where it was being performed and I had lived and breathed...
“Wow, Mummy! They’re amazing,” was my nearly-four-year-old’s response when he saw The Great Brick Safari this morning. And he’s right; wow indeed! The 12 statues which are currently on display in Mermaid Quay are incredible. In Cardiff for just two weeks – from Saturday 10th-Sunday 25th February – the wild...
I love reading my children books which challenge conventional thinking and take a quirky twist on the norm – and both The Day The Crayons Quit and The Day The Crayons Came Home do exactly that. They are lovely picture books with a quirky sense of humour and intriguing illustrations....
*paid collaboration with St Fagans National Museum of History Let’s face it; the weather hasn’t been great so far this year. We’ve still been donning our waterproofs and wellies and getting out and about when we can but the cold, rain, wind, ice and even fog of the last few...
A fun and quirky take on children’s counting books, I Can Only Draw Worms never fails to make us laugh when we read it. It’s a simple book with basic illustrations and very little text but it’s such a great concept that it’s become a firm favourite in our house....
Paid collaboration with Jammie Dodgers Oaty Bites “What’s our snack Mummy? What’s to eat? I’m starving!” The minute I collect my children from school this is the chorus I am usually greeted with. No “How are you, Mummy?” or “Hey, we did this really cool thing at school today”....
Paid collaboration with National Museum Cardiff and National Museum Wales What better place to hang out on a damp and dreary winter’s day than the National Museum Cardiff? Even before we started working as ambassadors for the museum it has long been one of our favourite places to visit as...
Littlest adores superheroes. Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man. He’s not fussy. Any old hero with a cape and a mask and he’s in his element, saving the world and getting the baddies. He loves the action toys, the dress-up clothes, the theme songs, the clothing. While his big...
A fantastic book for firing up the imagination, You Choose is different every time you read it. Filled with bright and colourful illustrations, each double page asks a question such as where would you live, who would your family and friends be, what would you eat, and invites you to...