Ad/Paid collaboration with Wales Recycles and the Welsh Government’s 12 Days of Christmas Recycling campaign You don’t need me to tell you that the amount of waste we produce over the festive period goes into overdrive. Left-over food from our Christmas dinners; Christmas cards; food packaging; unwanted gifts; Christmas trees;...
AD: Paid collaboration with National Museum Wales With Christmas fast approaching, the various National Museums of Wales would normally be getting ready to welcome visitors for all sorts of magical and festive events. This year, things are different… and instead you can join Father Christmas, Mother Christmas and the mischievous...
Paid collaboration with Sherman Theatre, Cardiff The family Christmas theatre shows at Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre have been one of our festive highlights for many years now. Although we’ll miss going to the Sherman this Christmas, we’re thrilled to hear the theatre has come up with a wonderfully creative way to...
I’ve read a lot this year! I’ve always been a book lover but my reading has gone into overdrive this year with lockdown. Losing myself in books is helping to keep my mind in check; it’s an escape from the strange and uncertain times we are living in, keeping me away...
Paid collaboration with Welsh Government Climate change is the greatest environmental challenge our world has ever faced. Global temperatures are at an all-time high; 17 of the 18 warmest years on record have all taken place since 2001. This isn’t the natural cycles of warming and cooling – changes that...
Quick link: You can sponsor us here. What a year it has been! I never thought the run-up to my first marathon would be full of so many twists and turns. When I got the email confirmation last August from Tommy’s to say I’d been given a place on their...
AD/Paid collaboration with Adopting Together/ St David’s Children Society “A lot of people think we must be mad to adopt two children who are so young but it feels like the most natural thing in the world to us. We always knew that we wanted to adopt siblings and it’s...
If you’ve been reading Cardiff Mummy Says for any amount of time, you’ll know how much I love days out in the great outdoors and writing about them here. However, I’m prefacing this blog post with a huge Covid-related disclaimer: please stick to current lockdown rules, respect local loackdowns, the...
AD Paid collaboration with Wales Recycles and Welsh Government How good are you at recycling? If you live in Wales, chances are you’re pretty good because as a nation we are currently the third best in the world. Welsh households currently recycle 63% of their waste, with only Singapore...
Ad/Paid collaboration with Working Wales and Adult Learners’ Week 2020 Now that my children are all back in school after six months at home, it’s time for me to go back to school too. Well, not ‘school’ exactly, but I am taking part in Adult Learners’ Week 2020 with...
Like a lot of families, we truly embraced cycling during lockdown. We biked along some lovely routes here in Cardiff, taking the Taff Trail to Bute Park and Cardiff Bay in one direction, and Forest Farm and Radyr Weir in the other, on a regular basis. It was a great...