A rainy Sunday morning at 11.30am, and it’s no surprise that Hollywood Bowl is filled with families. Ten pin bowling is the perfect inter-generational activity, and with the Cardiff Bay Hollywood Bowl having recently undergone a £150,000 makeover, we were excited to be invited along for a game....
Cosmeston Lakes Country Park and Medieval Village is one of those places you can stay all day and have a new adventure on every corner. From feeding the ducks and swans in the lake, exploring the woods and the boardwalks around the marshes, to playing in the adventure playground and...
Little Miss E has been going to ballet classes since she was three years old. She loves dancing and wearing her little ballerina costume, and it’s been amazing to see her progress over the last two and a half years. Just before she started lessons, we were keen to buy...
I was so relieved to see the sun shining this morning. After yesterday’s non-stop torrential rain, I was worried for the young cast of Disney’s Beauty And The Beast Junior. Everyman’s annual open air theatre festival is a big event in the Cardiff theatrical calendar, amateur or otherwise. Yet while...
Adapting a popular picture book into a stage show is always a tough task. How do you turn a story that takes no more than five minutes to read into an hour-long performance that is faithful to the story but which entertains and holds the attention of the audience? Especially...
My eldest two children love 10-pin bowling. I do, too! However, it’s not exactly a cheap activity to do regularly, so a couple of months ago, we made this tin can bowling set after seeing the idea in a magazine. It might not have all the atmosphere and excitement of...
When I asked my children what they wanted to do today, the answer was unanimous. Go on an adventure. Well, I say unanimous – that’s what Little Man O, 3¾, and Little Miss E, 5½, said. Baby Boy I, now 16 months, didn’t really express an opinion, so an adventure...
Anyone who has attended any kind of social occasion with me in the last 10 years or so will have tried these. They are one of my fail-safe, go-to dishes and they are always so popular. They’re probably one of the simplest recipes I’ve ever featured on my blog, but...
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...