Feather Down Farms Days Review – Dolphinholme
Oh we were all so excited about Feather Down Farm. We do love the idea of an Enid Blyton-style family holiday and family glamping (albeit less than an hour away from home!) looked like it would hit the spot. We arrived mid-afternoon and transferred everything to our tent via wheelbarrow. I’d been a bit worried that we’d look like total hicks with our cardboard boxes of food (I told David to just take everything we had that...
Best, Most Honest, Butlins Review You’ll Ever Read.
(Goddess Bec was sent off with the family to Butlins Shoreline Hotel in Bognor Regis – here’s what she had to say…) I have to admit to giggling a bit when LittleStuff asked if I’d like to review a two night stay at Butlins. Let me explain. Growing up, in my teenage years I *may* have got tipsy on alcopops and *may* have climbed up a tree and over a fence and *may* have gone to the Butlins disco whilst dodging...
A Little Something Different for Mothers Day
No Flowers, Slippers or even Sold Out Telegrams. No. How about just whizzing you away somewhere really rather special for the weekend instead? Get the whole family, take your Mum, your children, and all spend a couple of days remembering what it is that makes Mothering the tippy-top fabulousness that it truly is? There’s the cottage in Cornwall that will allow you to sleep in a room like this… “Lantau Cottage is a...
We want to go HERE – It’s not really camping, now, is it?
That, in fact, is a Yurt. In the Lake District. Picture it – in front of you Lake Windermere – less than a minute’s walk away… Behind you a luxury yurt ; complete with a wood burning stove, and all you might need to live for a week (or two…or three…). Switch off from the pressures of life and enjoy nature at its finest. Oh, yes please. (If you’re looking for a holiday, you could do a lot worse than have a...
The Larmer Tree Festival Review – what we really thought
When Laura asked on Wednesday if I wanted to take her place at the Larmer Tree Festival for five days she didn’t have to ask twice. I imagine she chose me because I had easy access to four enthusiastic children. What she might not have considered was my previous experience working at numerous festivals in the past, delighting children with a huge inflatable bouncy dragon, and more recently taking my own children to experience the fun...
Futuroscope Review – Just. Don’t. Miss. It.
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 and a Man of Genius. Thirdly…Well. How to actually tell you about Futuroscope? “WOW!” Just about sums it up. Or...