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Winter family fun: part six
Welcome to part six in our series on ‘Winter Family Fun’. Do you enjoy the theatre? Do your children? Now for me there has always been the theatre, and then The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), which is quite simply theatre at its best. I have very happy memories of exciting trips to The RSC as […]
A little princess?
Do you have a little princess at home? My princess is nine now but she used to own every Disney Princess from the Disney Store and just about every costume as well. Sadly, we’ve reached the age when “princesses are for babies”and to be honest we probably did a couple of years ago. A girl […]
Dodging the sick bullet
I have tried very hard to dodge the sick bullet all my life. As a child I was terrified of being sick and tried so hard not to let it happen very often. In my first five years of life I had most things going: chickenpox; measles; mumps; whooping cough etc. Aside from those biggies […]
Prepare for your retirement before you need to
As you get older, it’s only natural that you should start thinking about retirement. Granted, I’m not yet near the age where I plan to retire, but I still think about it sometimes. I think what it will be like when my children grow up and move out. I think about where we are going to […]
Practical jackets for little tots
Sadly the days of leaving the house without a coat of some description are well in the past with Autumn firmly upon us. I don’t know about you, I want the children to be snug, but trying to wrestle little ones into their car seats with the added bulk of a winter coat can be […]
Family-friendly days out: part ten
Welcome to part ten of our series on family-friendly days out. We recently visited Eureka: The National Children’s Museum based in Halifax. There are hundreds of interactive, hands-on exhibits designed to inspire children aged 0 to 11 to learn about themselves and the world around them through play and discovery. They regularly run special themed events […]
The sorry tale of Albert Apple
Albert was an apple. He was a bright and shiny apple and the envy of the entire fruit basket. One day Albert was selected by the woman in charge of making packed lunches to go to school with one of the big kids. It was such an adventure for Albert and he was very excited. […]
“Let’s make something Mummy”
A friend told me that these are the words that send shivers down her spine – in fact she told me that crafting is banned from her house “they can do all that at school” she told me. Now as much as the timing of these requests is often not always ideal, and as much […]