One of the highlights of 2015 family festival calendar was the Geronimo festival. We sent the O’Brien family along to check it out and they had a fabulous time. Read their full review here. Geronimo will be at Harewood House on May 1st and 2nd 2016 and at Tatton Park on May 29th and 30th …
I promised you a look at the new toy range to accompany the return of Teletubbies to our screens, and here it is! Teletubby Toys are back! As I mentioned in my previous post, the brightly coloured group of friends we grew up with has made a comeback and now there are a great range …
I said yesterday that I’ve got some great plans for the blog this year. I promise you… More competitions: I love running giveaways because they make winners happy and what’s better than making someone happy? Competitions will be a regular feature of this blog in 2016 and will (hopefully) cover lots of different interests so …
I had big plans for this blog. A couple of months ago I was determined to really throw myself into blogging and really make it grow. To earn a living from it. Then Christmas approached, the kids finished school and suddenly there wasn’t any time for me to schedule blog or facebook posts, and I …
For the past three years I’ve put together a Christmas Eve box for the boys. It’s an increasingly popular trend and contents vary greatly from household to household, but this is what we put in ours: Fleece blanket Christmas DVD New baubles for the tree (one for each of the boys) Snacks Cookies for Santa …
Christmas doesn’t really start for us until we’ve been to Winter Wonderland at Event City in Manchester. Now in its third year, it has quickly become part of our Christmas traditions and it gets better and better each year. This year there was the addition of the ice show, a magic show and circus skills …
The only Grotto we’ve been to this year was the one at Barton Square, which is part of intu Trafford Centre. Last year’s grotto there was beautiful and I wasn’t sure how they were going to better it. Instead of trying to improve a wonderful exhibition, they changed tack completely and created not just a …
Which do you prefer, the forest or the beach? Well, it doesn’t actually matter when you visit Formby Point, as we discovered when we visited earlier in the year. As you leave your car in the car park and head into the woods, keep an eye out for red squirrels! These beautiful little creatures are far …
I looked back recently at the first three months of this year and the adventures we’ve had during that time. Today I’m covering April, May and June of this year and looking back on the incredibly precious time we spent together as a family. April The Great British Food Festival This was a really wonderful day …
As the warm, comforting flavours of my Glorious! Moroccan Spiced Chicken soup envelop my taste buds on this grey, wet Manchester day, I close my eyes and imagine myself back under the warmth of the beautiful Moroccan sunshine… I’ve never experienced a place quite like Morocco. The unique mix of culture, hospitality and oh so …