It isn’t very often we get to go out for a meal as a family, with Ted working odd hours and the boys’ football taking up so much of the time that we do have together, so Friday was a real treat for us as we enjoyed a truly delicious meal at Cabana in Manchester. …
Do you know how difficult it is to pack the right stuff for a week or backpacking during a typical English summer with two small children and no car? Just imagine how tricky it must be. Now let me tell you – it’s harder than that. Here is our entire backpacking kit list for 6 nights …
Last August I took leave of my senses completely and spent 6 nights backpacking in the south of the UK with my husband, our four year old and our seven year old. We decided that we’d like to see some of the Jurassic Coast and so our route was based around that, as well as …
Bluedot Festival announces more acts and first wave of arts and culture programme Air, Brian Eno, Lanterns on the Lake, Helen Keen, The Clangers, Krysco, Marc Riley and many more join the line-up for Bluedot this year. Taking place 22-24 July at Jodrell Bank, the Cheshire observatory at the cutting edge of humanity’s quest for …
I don’t know exactly why I was so taken with the little beach that is Cei Bach. Perhaps it was because the place was near deserted. Maybe it was that we somehow managed to get the only 30 minutes of sunshine on that day while we were there. It could even have been that hard-to-please …
There aren’t many days left of the Easter break for the boys now and they’ll be back to school on Monday. So when Table Table invited us to come along to their John Milne restaurant in Milnrow, I thought it would be a lovely treat for me to take the boys for a meal before …
Easter wouldn’t be nearly as fun for us if we didn’t do a National Trust Easter Egg Hunt. This year we were in Wales over the Easter bank holiday weekend so our treasure hunt was at Cilgerran Castle just outside Cardigan. We’ve been members of the National Trust for a few years now and every …
A week in Talgarreg on the Welsh coast was the perfect break for us to take this Easter. With our original holiday plans for this year postponed due to the baby we decided to just take a week’s break now and then Ted will take the rest of his holidays from work when the baby …
The term ‘school holidays’ strikes fear into many parents’ hearts, but not us. We love to spend Easter outdoors and we love the opportunity to spend more time with the boys (even if they are bickering) and at the top of our holiday to-do list is always an outdoor activity. I’ve scouted t’internet for our …
Over the next two weeks we will be marking Easter and St. Patrick’s Day by doing various activities with the children, but this year I wanted to also teach them about a celebration they’ve never heard of before. We will be looking at the Persian New Year celebration of Nowruz as many people around the …