I’m already ridiculously excited about Christmas. The kids are at that lovely age where they’re old enough to get excited with me, and young enough to still believe in all the magic around it. And that’s why, after a fair bit of umming and aahing, I’ve decided to bite the bullet and take them to […]
Archives for November 2017
Food: The New Children’s Menu At The Knife & Cleaver, Houghton Conquest
Five-year-olds are funny creatures when to comes to food, aren’t they? On the one hand, my eldest eats his school hot dinners without any complaints, counts mussels as one of his favourite things to eat, and gets excited at the thought of trying out a new restaurant. On the other, he has days when all […]
Travel: The George Inn, Maulden – 7 new bedrooms and a gin bar to boot
I’d never been to Maulden until a couple of weeks ago. The pretty Bedfordshire village sits about half-way between Bedford and Luton on the A6, and ten minutes from Center Parcs Woburn Forest (which we’ve been to a lot), so I must have passed it a million times. But despite having lived down the road […]