The annual floral spectacular, the RHS Flower Show Cardiff, returns to Cardiff next month, embracing Wales’ Year of Legends with a host of themed-gardens and features to spark the imagination – and you could be there for free with this fantastic ticket giveaway! The Flower Show – which is organised...
It’s been a looong and challenging week! Little Miss E, my seven year old daughter, started the week being off school with what we thought was an ear infection but turned out to be tonsillitis. Little Man O, her four-year-old brother was not happy having to go to school when she...
The fifth annual Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival started today, with events across the city celebrating the best in writing for kids in Welsh and English. We are blogger ambassadors for the festival and have been live tweeting and Instgramming from some of the events today. This afternoon, the five of...
We had a great time at Dean Heritage Centre earlier this month, as part of our stay in the Wye Valley. The weather wasn’t so good, with on and off showers throughout the day – but we still managed to entertain ourselves for four and a half hours at the...
With the shops full of pink bouquets of flowers, fluffy slippers, best mum mugs and aisles full of cards, it’s difficult to avoid the fact that Mothering Sunday is coming this weekend. For many, it’s a day of being spoiled by their families in appreciation for everything they do. However, it’s...
*in association with Love Food Hate Waste For the most part, I love internet grocery shopping. My life is made so much easier when people can bring my shopping right to me door, rather than me having to take one, two or three kids to the shops. However, sometimes things...
Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival opens this weekend, celebrating the best in English and Welsh language children’s writing and illustration. Taking place over the weekends of Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th March and Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd April, the festival, now in its fifth year, will see events in locations...
*paid collaboration with Cabot Circus You could hardly have failed to notice that it’s Mother’s Day this weekend. The shops are filled with scented candles, fluffy slippers, fluffy toys, best mum key rings and huge bouquets of flowers, and every restaurant and tearoom is running a special menu in honour...
What’s it really like…? is a regular series on Cardiff Mummy Says looking at the realities of parenting for different types of families. From a home-educating family to a mum whose child has autism, it’s been fascinating gaining an insight into the highs, the lows and everything in between for...
It might be 2017, but a big piece of my heart is still sat firmly in the 1980s. I was born in 1978, so I am a real child of the 80s, beginning it aged one and a half and finishing it aged 11 and a half. One of the...
Both Cardiff Daddy and I remember visiting the Wye Valley Butterfly Zoo and The aMazing Hedge Puzzle when we were younger, him with his family and me with my school, so we were keen to take our own children as part of our stay in the area last weekend. As...