Festive shows – Cinderella and the Lost Slipper
Read about our visit to a Creation Theatre performance of Cinderella and the Glass Slipper at the Mill Arts Centre in Banbury at Christmas
Read about our visit to a Creation Theatre performance of Cinderella and the Glass Slipper at the Mill Arts Centre in Banbury at Christmas
A Strictly Come Dancing themed alternative Christmas nativity play. Check out my guide on making a 10 minute no sew morris dancing outfit
We went to Coventry Cathedral to watch and listen to The Snowman and Nutcracker christmas concert. Read what it was like.
A Christmas visit to National Trust’s Waddesdon Manor is really special at this time of the year. Read about what was on offer.
I love a good Christmas song, although Christmas carols are up there as well. I seem to have passed on my love of Christmas songs and music to N who discovered my Christmas compilation* album and has wandered off with…
We went to see the light displays, Christmas at Blenheim Palace and enjoy the light trail and the fairground rides.
Before N was at school I often heard rumblings around this time of year, about the Christmas play. But it wasn’t always the nativity which you would expect to see. No, the nativity had been extended to encompass any type…
*Ad – gifted Like many other children at Christmas, N always has new pyjamas on Christmas eve. Usually they’re Christmassy ones, but this year I’d found some brilliant blue ones with soldiers on. So when I was sent a gorgeous…
Christmas is over for another year. It’s a bit strange because for the first time ever I’ve not worked up until Christmas eve, and will be having nearly 2 weeks off work. For me it feels like a bit of…
Last year N had a treat and had a Lego advent calendar, but I’m tight so wasn’t going to buy another one. He also had a fabric calendar that I filled with chocolate coins and slips of paper with activities…
Gifts for teachers. Do you do them or not? The last day of term before Christmas I spotted children going into school with gifts, and with horror realised that it hadn’t even occurred to me to sort a gift out. …
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