Paid collaboration with Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales We’re regular visitors to Wales’ national museums all year round – but there’s something extra special about visiting them at Christmas when they’re decorated for the festive season and host some fantastic special events, celebrating both traditional Welsh customs and more modern celebrations....
Paid collaboration with Dramatic Heart of Wales It’s amazing how you can head just an hour away from home and feel like you’re a world away. Such was the case for us when we visited the Dramatic Heart of Wales last month for a weekend of family adventure, exploring and...
Paid collaboration with Cardiff Christmas Festival Now in its third year, Cardiff Christmas Festival might be one of Cardiff’s newest festive events, but it’s certainly established itself as one of the most magical. For six weeks in November and December, the beautiful Spiegel Theatre will be back at Sophia Gardens...
It’s the most magical time of year. Whether you call him Santa, Father Christmas or Sion Corn, he’s going to be in a lot of places in South Wales this Christmas. Just how does he manage to do it?! I’ve included all the Santa experiences I can find, but let...
Thanks to Wales Millennium Centre for providing us with tickets to review Pontypool Wicked might be selling out Wales Millennium Centre’s Donald Gordon Theatre – but Pontypool, which opened in the smaller Weston Studio on 30 October, is also currently wowing audiences in its own very different way. Tense and...
Stage musical Wicked has been selling out theatres for more than 20 years. It’s been seen by 65 million people worldwide, has more than 100 international awards to its name, is the fourth longest running show on Broadway and 10th longest-running show in the West End. And with the first...
Paid collaboration with Dramatic Heart of Wales, the tourism board for Neath Port Talbot. Fright Nights at Margam Country Park is a brand new Halloween experience for 2024. Choose from Spooky Family Fun, a PG-rated event with an age guidance of 5+, or the Spine Chilling Extreme Horror, with a...
These photos were taken the last time I went for a run – back in mid-June. I had to pull out midway through the ultra marathon I’d spent six months training for due to a pain in my knee/hip that came from nowhere. I haven’t been able to run since...
My youngest child, of three, is now in year 6. Secondary school applications are open, transition days are being organised, he can’t wait to get a leavers’ hoodie. When I started Cardiff Mummy Says, he was an eight month old baby with a two year old brother and a four...
I’m a ball of emotions this morning with all three children back to school today. Year 10 and the start of GCSEs for my eldest, year 8 for my middle, and year 6 for my youngest. Our last first day of primary; our last year at a school we absolutely...
Thanks to Wales Millennium Centre for providing us with review tickets to Blood Brothers Still selling out theatres more than 40 years since it first took to the stage, Blood Brothers is at Cardiff’s Wales Millennium Centre this week as part of its latest UK tour. And this emotionally powerful...