As part of their half term activities, all this week, St Fagans National History Museum have been asking visitors to help them create a giant wicker man. The last day is tomorrow, Friday, between 12pm and 3pm. Made from straw cased in chicken wire, the 16-foot effigies will be burned...
If you’ve read George’s Marvellous Medicine, you’ll know it features a grandma who gets bigger in size and bursts through the roof when she drinks a medicine concocted by her grandson George, and then later shrinks until she disappears. Not to mention farm yard animals growing and shrinking, and George...
Hendrwennol has gained quite a reputation over the last few years for its Halloween festivities. Gone are the strawberries the pick-your-own farm is famous for in the early summer, and in place are thousands of pumpkins, picked over the last couple of weeks, and ready to be carved, as one of...
“You’re the worst mummy in the world, ever.” When my children look at me, sheer rage in their eyes, and utter those words, it hurts. Like a knife to the heart. It’s usually over something relatively trivial. Like asking them not to wipe their sticky hands on their clean clothes....
As a vegetarian, the last place I thought I would find myself headed for lunch this half term was Chicken House. But the eatery at The Red Dragon Centre in Cardiff Bay asked us along yesterday after our screening of Trolls at the Odeon (read the review here – we...
Given Castell Coch is known as Wales’s fairytale castle, it’s the perfect place to hunt for fairies. This half term sees a fairy-themed trail running through the grounds of the red-roofed castle, with rhyming clues to solve, and fairies, gnomes and fairy doors to find. We were invited to visit...
I’m sure I’m not the only parent who very rarely sees ‘grown-up’ films in the cinema these days. Pretty much everything I watch on the big screen is animated and with a U or PG rating. Some films, I find myself clock-watching and willing them to be over. But then every...
Artes Mundi is one of the most significant contemporary arts prizes in the world. Held every two years, the Wales-based international competition sees its winner awarded £40,000, the largest arts prize in the UK. An exhibition of works from the shortlisted artists is currently on display at the National Museum Cardiff...
(I wrote this post in 2016 and have been sharing it every year since. I still think it’s incredibly important our children, and indeed all of us, know about the disaster at Aberfan. Since this article’s original publication, I have discovered one of my great uncles was involved in the...
It’s half-term next week, Halloween on the 31st, and there’s so much going on in and around Cardiff. From pumpkin carving and spooky trails to theatre and arts and crafts workshops, there’s enough here to fill half term at least seven times. As always, all events are subject change...
Being the youngest of three, with a big brother, and big boy cousins, Toddler is a real hand-me-down kid. His jacket, helmet, and jeans in this photo are are all pre-loved, and his Mini Micro Scooter was originally his brother’s. It doesn’t make any difference to him though, and I...