Paid collaboration with Working Wales I was really nervous about pressing publish on my recent post about how, now that my children are all at school, I want to get my career back on track and was off to see a Working Wales careers adviser. It’s really hard to put...
Well, this is certainly something you don’t see every day! The UK’s largest animatronic Tyrannosaurus-Rex has arrived at Mermaid Quay – and it’s certainly rather impressive. We headed to Cardiff Bay to meet him bright and early this morning, a flying visit in between our usual children’s swimming lessons and...
**All Amazon links on this page are affiliate links. This means if you make a purchase via this link, I will receive a small commission payment, at no extra cost to you. Like every year, I made the resolution in 2020 to read more books. And not just children’s...
Paid collaboration with National Museum Cardiff “Was it spooky?” and “Did you get any sleep?”. These are the first two things people have been asking me when I tell them we spent the night at National Museum Cardiff on Saturday night. My children and I were there for Museum Sleepover...
This photo popped up in my Facebook memories recently. I remember the day so well. My daughter, our first baby, was a week old and it was our first proper trip out away from the house as a family of three. Those of you who live in Cardiff may recognise...
Paid collaboration with Working Wales What do I want to be now my children are growing up? It’s something I’ve been asking myself a lot recently. When I was younger the only career I was interested in was being a journalist and I was privileged to spend a long time...
Those of you who have been reading Cardiff Mummy Says for a while will know how much I love soup. I eat it all year round, but it’s especially good at this time of year when it’s still so cold, wet and miserable. The soup is so warming and comforting...
I haven’t written a children’s books round-up for ages so I thought the start of the new year was a good chance to resurrect this old series and offer out a few recommendations of books we’ve been enjoying recently. In this series we share the books we have loved reading...
Paid collaboration with the Welsh Government and the Childcare Offer for Wales If you’re the parent of a 3 or 4 year old, or a soon to be 3 year old, then you are eligible to apply for the Childcare Offer for Wales. This is a Welsh Government scheme which...
Thanks to Wales Millennium Centre for providing us with tickets to see The King and I in exchange for this review. One of the joys of my children inheriting my passion for musicals is seeing them experience some of the all-time greats for the first time. Such was the...
Thanks to Wales Millennium Centre for providing us with tickets to Red in exchange for review Red may be inspired by Little Red Riding Hood but this new family theatre show, produced by Wales Millennium Centre and Likely Story, is nothing like the fairytale most of us are familiar with....