With the sun shining and no plans this morning, Littlest and I headed to Dyffryn Gardens, the beautiful National Trust property in St Nicholas in the Vale of Glamorgan. Their 12 Days of Christmas trail has just launched – and as we loved it so much last year, we couldn’t...
We love our National Trust family membership! We’ve had it for about three years now and it has proved to be great value, costing us £9.25 by monthly direct debit. We visit our two nearest properties (Dyffryn Gardens and Tredegar House) a lot. It helps that they always have different...
In association with Visit Rhondda Cynon Taf and Barry Sidings Country Park I’m so looking forward to the summer holidays and having lots of adventures with all three of my children. I miss Little Miss E, 7½, and Little Man O, 5¾, so much during term time and can’t wait...
I’ve written before on Cardiff Mummy Says about how much we love Coed y Wenallt during bluebell season. The end of April and the start of May sees a beautiful haze of the purpley-blue flowers carpeting the ancient woodland, and every year we take a family trip to visit. It...
Parc Play has long been one of my favourite play centres to take my children. It’s nothing like your typical play venue. There’s no ball pits or multi-coloured bright plastic climbing structures. Instead, it’s a part outdoor, part covered-indoor-but-with-an-outdoor-feel venue which encourages fresh air play all year round. For older...
Anyone else feeling like they over-indulged over Christmas? Time to grab the wellies and the woollies and head out for a blast of fresh air at some of the best beauty spots of Cardiff and the surrounding areas. Here’s 25 places we love to visit, and all of them are...
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...
Living in north Cardiff, our regular parks are Roath, Heath and the Rec at Penylan. But yesterday, we headed to the west of the city for a morning at Victoria Park. We’ve been here several times before, but not for a little while, so I thought it’d make a fun...
In the quest of things to do in the half term holidays that don’t cost a fortune and will entertain all three of my children equally, this morning we made the most of the winter sunshine and headed to Bute Park. Toddler Boy I, now 23 months, refuses to stay...
You’ll already know if you read Cardiff Mummy Says regularly that we love getting outdoors. We’re so lucky here in Cardiff to have so many beautiful outdoor places to visit, many of them for free. Despite living in a city, there are so many parks, rivers and woodland walks for us...
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...