This exhibition runs until September 30th as part of a season of events celebrating British design, and my daughter Bella and I went along to see it at the weekend. Although London’s V&A Museum is free, there is a charge for the exhibition: it cost £10 for the two of us. The tickets are timed, […]
The Harry Potter Studio Tour
My family loves Harry Potter. It feels like our eldest grew up with him, and the day the Deathly Hallows book came out we had to buy two copies because neither of us could wait to read it. (My husband felt this to be an appalling waste of money and still hasn’t forgiven me 5 […]
National Trust Standen for kids
Standen is a beautiful Arts & Crafts National Trust house in West Sussex, and I went there last week with my sister and our children. I know the National Trust has been harping on about all the things kids should do before being swallowed up by screens, but I’ve never found Trust properties (of the […]
Guardian Open Weekend
The Guardian’s first open weekend was held yesterday and today at the newspaper’s HQ near Kings Cross Station in London. Most events were sold out, but I managed to get tickets to three today. I didn’t really know what to expect, but love the quality of writing in the Guardian so was keen to go […]
School trips for teenagers
My eldest, who’s 13 and whose hobby is Facebook, begged to go on her school Latin Trip this Easter. Her Dad and I were surprised and delighted, and fondly imagined her following in our youthful backpacking footsteps around Pompeii and Herculaneum, absorbing the history of the land of her ancestors and generally having a lovely […]
Brighton Modelworld
My youngest adores Lego so when he heard about Brighton Modelworld 2012 (‘a must for every modelling enthusiast’) I knew where we’d all be on Sunday. The eldest came along for the ride, a friend in tow, ducking out to the Churchill Shopping Centre before we’d even parked. Modelworld was at the Brighton Centre, conveniently on the seafront so that […]
London Transport Museum
Parked in the middle of Covent Garden, the London Transport Museum shows the development of public transport in the city from sedan chairs right up to Emirates Air-Line, a London cable car coming this summer. Kids get in for free, and are issued with a card on arrival to follow a ‘stamper trail’ around […]
Vintage Heaven at Ardingly
If you like your shopping experience to be quirky, unpredictable and out in the open, then I know just the place for you. Today I went to Ardingly International Antique and Collectors Fair at the South of England Showground in West Sussex, and came home with several things I didn’t know I needed before. Sadly […]
