We just got back from our mini family road trip across northern Italy. We. Are. Pooped. We started on the Adriatic coast, visited Venice, stayed over on the shore of Lake Garda, then set off south to Tuscany, fitting in all sorts of lovely places on the way. We’re all nice and brown, very tired […]
Travel: Mallory Court Hotel review, Leamington Spa (without the kids!)
It’s been more than a year since the husband and I went out for dinner just the two of us. I know you’re meant to do these things a lot as grown-ups – I read the same late-night posts on Scary Mommy as you, and I know ‘date nights’ are what keep toddler-tired marriages ticking along. But two kids, […]
Travel: JoJo Maman Bebe meets Carbis Bay Beach, Cornwall
JoJo Maman Bebe very kindly sent the kids some clothes from their new Safari Adventures collection a few weeks ago, and we finally had a reason to wear them today at Carbis Bay Beach. We’re in Cornwall for a family wedding, and today there was a big family lunch after the main event yesterday. The […]
Travel: Languages, and why you don’t have to be fluent to flourish
I’ve just written a guest post about how to help your child learn a second language. It’s for One Third Stories, whose subscription-based Story Boxes are designed for kids aged 4-9 and delivered by post for £12.49 per month. More importantly though, they’re brilliant. I blogged about their whirlwind kickstarter campaign a while back, and I’ve […]
Travel: Heathrow Windsor Marriott Hotel review with kids + GoPro video
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 […]
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