My husband had a wonderful time yesterday afternoon outside clearing up leaves and attacking shrubs with the hedge trimmer. At Easter we were guests on a National Trust family working holiday to Stackpole in Pembrokeshire which I wrote about for The Independent. The youngest loved the day our group spent chopping down shrubs in the woods […]
The best flight ever
We went to the Dionysos estate in Turkey with Exclusive Escapes for the October half term holiday. I’m writing about the trip in print, but wanted to write here about how we got there because it was my best experience of air travel since my first plane journey 25 years ago. When I heard that […]
The Story Museum, Oxford
Oxford’s Story Museum aims to celebrate and promote children’s literature, and is due to open in the city centre in 2015. It should be a great success if its patrons are anything to go by: the fabulous authors Philip Pullman, Michael Rosen, Michael Morpurgo and Jacqueline Wilson. At the moment the museum runs outreach programmes in […]
Birling Gap, East Sussex
Birling Gap is one of my favourite places. It’s between Brighton and Eastbourne, but is unspoilt and beautiful, and owned by the National Trust. It’s part of the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs and has seen some perfect days out throughout my life, the most recent being with my Mum and kids a couple of weeks […]
Kayaking for kids
My kids and I were in Pembrokeshire this week with some other Mums and kids, and my friend Lizzie and her two eldest went sea kayaking at the National Trust’s Stackpole Quay and had a great time. We weren’t organised enough to book ahead, and so there wasn’t space for all of us, sadly. I’ve […]
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 […]
World Book Night
I just found out that it’s World Book Night, and that’s made me really happy because: a kind lady gave me a new book to read which I have never read and think I will love (The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho); on the back of the book it says ‘This book is a gift. It […]
National Trust Standen for kids
Sea Kayaking in Pembrokeshire
How to make an Easter bonnet
So this weekend we went to our local Hobbycraft shop and bought a flimsy selection of yellow feathers, pom-poms and googly eyes with a straw hat to attach them to. As we were sticking it all together my husband came in and narrowly escaped getting a glue brush in a painful place when he asked […]
