Half term didn’t quite start as we’d planned, with two of my three children coming down with sickness bugs this morning. Such rubbish timing! We’d arranged to visit St Fagans National History Museum today to check out their children’s explorer activity packs and their half term activities as part of our role...
February already! As ever, there’s so much going on this month for families. Highlights include Mr Bloom at St David’s Hall, warrior school at Cardiff Castle, So you think you know dinosaurs? at Newport Riverfront, family art workshops at National Museum Cardiff, various activities across South Wales for National Bird Week,...
Christmas can be such an expensive time of year. Presents, food, festive activities and the rest of it all add up. So it’s great to see Santa’s Post Office in Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay, has opened once again. It’s a free attraction where children can write a letter to Santa and...
What a magical afternoon we had at Hamleys Cardiff today! We were invited along to celebrate the launch of their Meet Father Christmas experience, along with some other local bloggers. The experience began the moment we entered the store. We were met at the door by a group of enthusiastic...
#FullOnFestiveFun is The Red Dragon Centre’s hashtag for the Christmas season – and that’s certainly what we had yesterday evening at a Hollywood Bowl children’s Christmas party, followed by ice creams at Cadalwaders. We’d been invited along as part of our role as blogger ambassadors for The Red Dragon Centre,...
A trip to Cardiff’s Winter Wonderland has become one of our pre-Christmas traditions since having children. In fact, my children think the famous song is written about this place. We usually try to fit in at least one visit in the run-up to Christmas, so our children can go on...
I’m excited to let you all know that Cardiff Mummy Says is now an official blogger ambassador for St Fagans National History Museum and National Museum Cardiff. As regular readers of Cardiff Mummy Says will know, we love visiting these two family-friendly attractions so I’m thrilled to be working in...
As one of the most imaginative children’s authors ever to have existed, it’s quite fitting that Wales Millennium Centre’s tribute to Roald Dahl in the centenary year of his birth is as creative and vibrant as the man himself was. In its essence, The Wondercrump World of Roald Dahl –...
As The Hunting of the Snark drew to an end and we were applauding the cast, Little Man O, my 4¾-year old middle child, asked me if we could watch it again. “I loved it so much Mummy,” he told me. “Can we please come again?” “It was really brilliant,”...
Quentin Blake’s illustrations are instantly recognisable. His interpretations of characters such as Roald Dahl’s The Twits, Matilda, and Danny the Champion of the World, and David Walliams’s The Boy In The Dress, not to mention the subjects of his own books, have made him one of the most famous children’s...
The upside of my children’s swimming lessons starting at 8.30am on a Sunday morning is that once they’re finished in the pool, we’re already out and about with the rest of the day ahead of us. Last weekend, we decided to make the most of the sunny weather and head...