Finding a hotel with family rooms – especially interconnecting rooms, where grown-ups can sleep in one room and kids next door – can be tricky. And that’s doubly true when you’re looking for somewhere within close reach of London. So when the Heathrow/Windsor Marriott Hotel asked if we’d like to come and stay to test […]
Travel: our Sicily daytrip to Ortigia, Syracuse with kids
We’re in the process or organising a road trip across Italy with our kids this June. My four-year-old starts school in September, so it feels like a good year to do an extended holiday. Plus, I went freelance at the end of last year so, for the first time ever, it’s only the husband who […]
Travel: The boy designed a Trunki and it’s not pink. (I know, right?)
We had a good couple of years where my son’s favourite colour was pink. He was adamant that it was the best colour IN THE WORLD and that everything should be pink (and white – white was also allowed), and it’s only recently, some time between the ages of three and four, that he’s decided […]
Life: Oi! Stop picking on the gym.
It’s January. Cue the anti-gym headlines telling us we can lose weight and get fit for free by jogging around the park. Well, I beg to differ… The gym gets a fair bit of flack in January. Deemed un-newsworthy the rest of the year, it creeps back into the headlines just after Christmas when thousands […]
Family: Christmas at Wyevale Garden Centre and Stockwood Discovery Centre
Breakfast with Father Christmas at Wyevale Garden Centre As weekends go, this one has been a 10/10 on the festive scale. On Friday we watched the 4-year-old in his first nativity at pre-school – he had absolutely no idea what he was doing, because we’d spent the previous week on holiday at Center Parcs Sherwood […]
Travel: Winter Wonderland at Center Parcs Sherwood Forest
*Updated 09/11/17 with dates for Christmas 2017!* Earlier this week we got back from a visit to Center Parcs Sherwood Forest, as part of the Winter Wonderland season. We’ve been on lots of Center Parcs breaks before (more about those here), but never at Christmas, and it’s fair to say they go all-out on the […]
Life: Shhhh, Mummy’s working. (Or how not to go freelance.)
Twelve weeks ago, I left my job of seven years. Well, seven years at the same company, anyway. I’d effectively been doing the same thing – writing and editing – for twelve years. I’d just switched from doing it for magazines, to doing it for brands. I digress. I left my job to go freelance […]
Family: To the nursery teacher who called to say my son had settled, thank you
To the teacher at my son’s new nursery, who phoned to tell me he had settled almost immediately after a particularly awful drop-off this morning, thank you. Thank you for knowing that, an hour after I walked away from him – as he cried and kicked and screamed his way through another defiant display on […]
Family: How To Do Legoland With Toddlers And Under-4s
We took the kids to Legoland Windsor for the second time a couple of weeks back and had such a lovely day. Last time we went – almost a year ago to the day – my eldest, then a toddler, was only just tall enough to go on a handful of the rides, and my […]
Family: DisneyLife Review – Is A Subscription Worth The Money?
If you’ve been reading the blog you’ll know that my kids watch too much TV, and I’m OK with that. So it’ll come as no surprise to learn that we’ve been testing out DisneyLife – Disney’s subscription-based streaming service – for the past couple of months. If you’re a Disney fan considering taking the plunge, […]
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