*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...
It’s Mothering Sunday next weekend and The Red Dragon Centre in Cardiff Bay invited us along today for an early treat, as part of our role as blogger ambassadors for the centre. Our day included my choice of film at the Odeon cinema complex – the newly-released Beauty and...
I’ve lost count of the number of times this week one or other of my mum friends has told me she’s a crap/bad/rubbish mum, or used some other negative word to describe her parenting skills. “I forgot my son’s PE kit. I’m such a crap mum.” “There are photos of...
Cirque Berserk! is coming to Cardiff – and you could be there with this fab ticket giveaway! There’s a family ticket up for grabs for the opening night of the show’s stint at Wales Millennium Centre, on Tuesday 28th March at 7.30pm. The show has received rave reviews, with Time...
* In association with Love Food Hate Waste I’ve been working with Love Food Hate Waste this month on their #giveupbinningfood campaign, which is asking people to reduce the amount of food they waste over Lent. The organisation hopes to inspire households to change their eating, shopping and food storage...
Nestled in the small rural village of Catbrook, just a mile above Tintern in the Wye Valley, Foxes Reach is a beautifully quaint holiday cottage, perfect for family getaways in the area. We were invited to stay earlier this month by the owner, Fiona Wilton of Monmouthshire Cottages, as part...