Collecting conkers in the autumn is a childhood experience everyone deserves to have at least once. Picking up the spiky shells from the floor and wondering if there is anything hiding inside, seeing shiny red-brown conkers hiding among the leaves and twigs on that ground, and the thrill when you...
I love this time of year when the autumn sun is shining. When the leaves are golden brown and crisp and perfect for crunching underneath your feet. When you treasure each and every sunny day because as winter gets ever-closer, you know they will become more infrequent. We had a...
I’m generally a healthy eater – like, really healthy with a diet packed full of vegetables, lentils and beans, green smoothies and so on – but I also have a weakness for pizza and a major sweet tooth. This sweet tooth seems to go into overdrive when I am pregnant or breastfeeding. I’m...
Every week, I read blogs that make me laugh, blogs that make me cry, blogs which challenge my thinking, blogs which support me as a parent, and blogs which inspire me. Seeing as you’re reading Cardiff Mummy Says, I figure you like blogs too. I’m continuing my monthly series, charting 10 of...
It’s 20 years this week since I started university. 20 years! How is it even possible that I am that old?! I had the best times ever at Swansea (check out this post if you also studied at Swansea in the 1990s). I made some amazing friends. Met the man...
It was possibly the worst three of four minutes of my life. We were at a public event with a few thousand other people. One moment my toddler was there, beside us. The next he wasn’t. We looked in our immediate vicinity, but no sign. We looked again, expecting to...
*Paid collaboration with National Museum Cardiff Now that Little Man O has joined his big sister Little Miss E at full-time school, I’m trying to find activities that Toddler Boy I will enjoy. We recently headed along to National Museum Cardiff for one of its Toddler Time events, as part of our...
When Steinbeck and Shaw invited a group of local parent bloggers, including me, to put their new food and drink menus to the test, of course we said yes! Sharing platters of food and cocktails plus a chance to catch up with some lovely friends? We were there like a...
When someone without kids tells you they have no ‘me time’ what you want to say is: * “Do you get to open your eyes in your own time in the morning without a small person gauging their fingers into your eye sockets or jumping on your head? * Do...
Calories don’t count when it’s for charity, right?! That’s my excuse for guzzling a shed-load of cake yesterday anyway! I’m working with Macmillan Cancer Support Wales on helping to promote their World’s Biggest Coffee Morning – and yesterday, got together with a group of local parent bloggers and our children...
As I’ve previously written on Cardiff Mummy Says, I think St Fagans National History Museum is one of the most important places in Cardiff for local children (and adults, for that matter) to visit. We’ve recently become blogger ambassadors for St Fagans, as well as its sister site National Museum...