I’m a big fan of Oliver Jeffers. Little Miss E was given his book Lost And Found as a newborn and it was one of the first stories we ever read to her. We’ve borrowed a few of Jeffers’ other books from the library, including the beautiful How To Catch...
No school for six weeks! How are you going to keep your little ones entertained?! Especially without it costing a fortune. Here are 63 free family-friendly days out in and around Cardiff for the summer of 2015. Some of them are one-off events but most of them are places you...
School summer holidays can be frustrating if you have babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers to entertain. The classes and playgroups you attend all term shut down for the summer and the parks and soft plays are rammed full of big kids. However, there are a number of activities still continuing over the...
I mentioned homemade popcorn in my kids’ summer to-do list post as one of 50 simple things to enjoy this summer. A few friends have told me they’ve never made it before and asked what they need to do. It’s so simple, I promise, and great fun too. The key is getting...
Little Miss E was given Dogs Don’t Do Ballet for her first birthday – and now she’s five and a half it’s still well-read in our house. Little Man O, now 3¾, enjoys it just as much as her, and I’m sure it won’t be long until Baby Boy I starts...
Little Miss E asked me recently if I liked watching Frozen when I was a little girl. “It didn’t exist when I was a little girl,” I told her to much bemusement. “Okay then Mummy, what were your favourite films when you were little?” she asked me. And so I...
A couple of weekends ago, Little Miss E went to a birthday party of one of the children in her class at school. Her brother, Little Man O, was so upset that he wasn’t going that he cried full-on tears. He’d seemingly forgotten that a couple of weeks previously, he...
I grew up a stone’s throw from Porthkerry Country Park in Barry. I have so many childhood memories of this place – walking through the woods, running around the fields for hours on end, skimming pebbles into the sea, watching the trains journeying over the 16-arch viaduct and the planes...
Duck in the Truck was one of the first picture books I bought after Little Miss E was born. She’s the eldest of my three children and now 5.5 years old – and this book, which I picked up in a charity shop when she was just a few weeks...
Every summer, we come up with a little list of family-friendly things we want to do. The only rules are that everything on the list has to be about celebrating the simple things in life and they can’t be too expensive. As we started putting this year’s list together, I...
Last weekend, we headed to Tredegar House, near Newport. The reason for our visit is that we now have a National Trust family annual membership. Yes, I have become the people my pre-child self used to laugh at. But do you know what? I absolutely love our new purchase and...