The youngest and I went to Kent’s Beaver Water World at the weekend. The eldest was otherwise engaged, shivering through the icy tent flaps of her D of E expedition while my husband is somewhere in the Americas. Beaver Water World is tucked away in Tatsfield near Westerham on the same site as a shop selling tropical […]
V&A exhibition – Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary
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, […]
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 […]
