What would you do with a few child-free hours? A lie-in? Binge-watch Netflix? Go for brunch? A spa? Tidy the house? Collapse into a heap on the sofa and not move for the day? With the kids staying with their grandparents overnight (thank you!), Cardiff Daddy and I found ourselves...
Paid collaboration with Bit Pit National Coal Museum The last time we visited Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenavon, my youngest wasn’t quite big enough to take the underground tour. He and my husband had to stay above ground while my two older children and I journeyed 90 metres...
This is a paid collaboration with The Royal Mint Experience The 50p coin is, according to Matthew, our tour guide at The Royal Mint Experience in Llantrisant today, the most-collected UK coin. More of us than ever before are squirreling away the seven-sided silver coins because we can’t get enough...
Paid collaboration with St Fagans National Museum of History To begin with, my children weren’t quite sure about yesterday’s Halloween Nights event at St Fagans National Museum of History. We’d only been there for a few minutes and a ghoulish witch crept up on us. It felt like she appeared...
With the sun shining again we headed to Tredegar House for the day today. We’ve been National Trust members for around three years now and it’s proving great value. South Wales might not have the same numbers of properties as other areas of the UK – but both Tredegar House...
*in association with Visit RCT and Rhondda Heritage Park As my children ran around the playground at Rhondda Heritage Park, the Museum of Welsh Mining, I couldn’t help but be drawn to the huge metal structure of the former Lewis Merthyr Colliery towering over us. It felt so surreal watching the...
Our National Trust family membership has turned out to be great value over the last couple of years. I did worry that with only two local properties (Dyffryn Gardens and Tredegar House) we wouldn’t get our use out of it –but we most definitely do. Much of this is down...
We headed to Tintern over the weekend for a family break. The village, which sits on the west bank of the River Wye just north of Chepstow, is beautifully quaint. Most famous for its abbey, we loved the friendly atmosphere and slow pace of life here – all helped by...
I’ve written about the Fforest Fawr sculpture trail before on Cardiff Mummy Says – but that was way back in the summer. It’s a whole different experience in the winter, when you need to wrap up warm and the rain means there’s plenty of mud to squelch in (even more...
After dropping Little Miss E to school and Little Man O to Cylch (Welsh playgroup) this morning, Toddler Boy and I found ourselves with just under an hour to spare before our online shopping delivery was due to arrive. We hadn’t really planned anything other than playing in the house...
I’ve already mentioned on Cardiff Mummy Says that we bought National Trust membership earlier this year. We’ve had some really lovely family days out at various properties, both locally and while holidaying in Devon and West Wales. So when we heard Father Christmas was meeting children at Tredegar House in...