Paid collaboration with CJCH Solicitors Cardiff Mummy Says is delighted to be working with CJCH Solicitors on an ongoing series of articles exploring legal matters relating to families. The series began last month with a look at how to appeal a school admissions decision if your child didn’t get into...
Paid collaboration with Tempur Insomnia has plagued me since I was a child. For as long as I can remember it’s been a part of my life. I get times when my sleep is relatively normal. But then I get other days, weeks and even months where I struggle to...
Thanks to Cosy Club Cardiff for inviting us to put their new summer menu to the test One day, I’m going to head to Cosy Club Cardiff on my own and sit at one of the tables alongside the huge glass windows and people-watch across the Hayes all day. The...
Paid collaboration with Mumbles Pier Cardiff Daddy and I met on the Mumbles. It was late September 1997 and both of us were students at Swansea University. The Mumbles Mile was the place to be on a Saturday night as students and locals alike went from pub to pub along...
*Paid collaboration with The Red Dragon Centre Families are invited to ‘think green’ this half term at The Red Dragon Centre, as Cardiff Bay’s premiere entertainment destination launches RDC Eco Kids, a series of exciting learning activities set to run at the Centre throughout the year. The first RDC Eco...
Thanks to Monster Jam Cardiff for inviting us to review the show What an epic afternoon we had today watching Monster Jam at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium. Ten of the world-famous trucks were in the Welsh capital as part of their 2018 world series – and it was jaw-dropping, heart-in-mouth stuff...
Paid collaboration with Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival As you’ll know if you read Cardiff Mummy Says regularly we are big bookworms in this family with reading a high priority for all of us. One of the highlights of our annual events calendar is the Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival – and...
Paid collaboration with Pugh’s Garden Village Wenvoe One minute you’re a child being dragged around a garden centre on a rainy bank holiday weekend; the next you’re a parent dragging your own children around a garden centre on a rainy bank holiday weekend. Thankfully garden centres are a lot more...
Paid collaboration with Welsh Water One of my earliest childhood memories is of a drain lid in the back yard of my childhood home bursting open and flooding our garden with the contents of our street’s toilets. Poo. Toilet paper in all different colours (this was the 1980s after all!)....
Paid association with Dyffryn Gardens National Trust Leaping across wooden stepping stones. Balancing on tree trunk beams. Climbing and jumping across logs. Making tepee dens out of huge branches and leaves. In my children’s words, the new wild play area at Dyffryn Gardens is the “best playground ever”. My eight...
Paid collaboration with St Fagans National Museum of History Usually when I write about St Fagans the focus is on the different historical buildings – the old farm houses; the school; the miners’ cottages; the chapel; the mill and so on. That’s not surprising given there are around 50 original...