Hurrah! We managed to raise £166 for the Joseph Salmon Trust, and in the process the (very lovely when I spoke to him!) Mr Adefope gets to take his family on a surprise weekend away in Cornwall. Win-win-win! Thank you so much to the original winner Claire from BeingAMummy for so sweetly offering up her [...]
Hands up, who’s a big musicals fan? Yers, I have two hands waving in the air; Katy is sitting on hers. I know, they’re not everyone’s cup of tea. I do know that. Don’t understand it, mind, but I do know. Way way back (many centuries ago, not long after the Bible began….) I was [...]
We recently ran a competition to win two family passes to the Port Eliot family festival (worth over £360). The oh-so-lovely Claire from www.beingamummy.co.uk was the winner of the Twitter comp, but sadly she can’t make the festival. Now, being oh-so-lovely as she is, she had a brainwave, and decided to donate the family pass [...]
Futuroscope – what to tell you? First off, it’s in the Vienne – kind of smack in the middle of France, close to Poitiers. It’s been there for 23 years – and yet no one has heard of it in the UK. Secondly, it’s the brain child of Luc Besson, one of my favourite directors [...]
Here’s the latest from Emma: Toots (Toots and the Maytals) were LEGEND last night! Families packed into the crowd, dancing together. People at the front were welcomed onto the stage by the man himself during the 15min encore – never seen that before. Caught some comedy in the packed marquee before bed too. We all [...]
After her grown-ups night at the festival watching Jools Holland and Newton Faulkner, Emma revisited last night with her son in preparation for spending the whole weekend ‘Festival-ing’… I took D for a couple of hours last night and it’s filled him with excitement to be spending a WHOLE weekend there. He loved the manageable [...]
…was apparently AMAZING! Unable to go myself, I roped in Emma, who said she could probably be forced to sample the delights of Jools Holland, Alison Moyet et al if she HAD to. Well, she did have to, so off she went… And she had a blast! Here’s the quick text I had from her [...]
Keris has been reviewing again (we think she only loves us for the review stuff, actually…), and this time she has been putting the Hoppop bag through its paces. I hadn’t even seen these before, but I did have a little ‘oooh!’ moment when I did – and wished I had a child that was [...]
Just in case you missed the Twitter competition here, or are simply a non-Twitterer, the lovely lovely Port Eliot Festival people have given us a SECOND Full Family Pass (two adults, two children, under 8′s are free – worth £360) for you to try and win. That covers the camping, the full three days of [...]
Silver Cross has just launched a new website www.silvercrossdaysout.co.uk – and is inviting all families with young children to visit it, comment on their experiences of days out and read other reviews. The aim is to enable people to discover the very best venues, near to them, for a fun family day out. To help [...]
