Stickyscapes This month sees the publication of two beautiful new sticker books for children. Stickyscapes: London by Robert Samuel Hanson and Stickyscapes: Paris by Malika Favre are published by Laurence King. Each book contains 100 re-usable stickers and a double-sided concertina cityscape to stick them on and I have two copies of each book to give […]
London: Ripley’s Believe It or Not
Ripley’s Believe It or Not ‘It would be useful to have an extra leg’ says my eleven year-old son. ‘’Why?’ I reply. ‘Because if one got chopped off then you’d have a spare.’ We’re looking at a display of unusual preserved animals including the body of a lamb with five legs. We’ve just come in […]
Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition
I was lucky enough to attend the press view of the British Museum’s astonishing new ‘Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum’ exhibition this week, and I can’t stop talking about it. The people living around Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 had no idea of its danger and didn’t understand the warning signs that it […]
Brunch and kids’ cooking at London’s Cookbook Cafe
This weekend the eldest and I left the boys at home and went for brunch at The Cookbook Cafe. We’d been invited to review the new kids’ cooking sessions on offer there. The eldest was pleased with her lemonade and strawberry Bellini to match my sparkling wine and blackberry one, and we agreed that Bellinis are a Good Thing. […]
Tate Modern with kids
I was surprised and thrilled to find that I’m one of the 2013 MAD blog award finalists in the Best Travel Blog category. If you nominated me, thank you, I really appreciate it. So, we sped around level four of London’s Tate Modern with the cousins during the half term break. The youngest had been given an […]
Things to do in London with teens
Recently the eldest and I acted as London tour guides for some Italian friends: a family with three teenagers. We didn’t really plan where to go, but our route evolved into a tour of many of the major London sights. The teenagers enjoyed it, so I thought it worth sharing. Our friends were staying at the […]
Designed to Win exhibition at London’s Design Museum
Everyone in our house loved the Olympics and is looking forward to the paralympics next week. We watched the Olympics on TV but were lucky enough to get some tickets for the paralympic athletics. The youngest (9) and I have been enjoying Jon Snow’s Paralympic Show http://www.channel4.com/programmes/jon-snows-paralympic-show every day on Channel 4. When we saw […]
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, […]
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 […]
