London day trip: Tower of London, Monument and Borough Market
London day trip itinerary around Tower of London, Monument and Borough Market, great mix of stops for pre-teens and older children
days out with children
Exploring Hughenden Manor and gardens
Over the winter I always have a few Saturdays to myself when the OH and N are off shooting. But often they’re filled with chores, hair appointments or other things that take up too much of the day to go…
Loving rides at Drayton Manor theme park and zoo
It’s been years since I’ve been to a proper theme park, but over half term we decided to head to Drayton Manor theme park and zoo. We’d taken my sister in law and the youngest nephew – it’s always nice…
Historic Bath – visiting Bath Abbey and Roman Baths
A visit to Bath isn’t complete unless you’ve visited the Roman Baths and Bath Abbey. Here’s our tips on visiting both with kids
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
A Waddesdon Manor Christmas festive visit
A Christmas visit to National Trust’s Waddesdon Manor is really special at this time of the year. Read about what was on offer.
A day trip to quirky Watermouth Castle
If you want a family theme park catering for all the family, focusing on under 10s, try Watermouth Castle in Devon
Igniting an interest in cycling for children
Inspiring children in sport and cycling through watching the women’s Tour of Britain road race coming within a mile of our house
Play at Knockhatch Adventure Park
N definitely takes after me. He loves leaflets. Anywhere we go he’ll spot them and pick them up, and then spend ages ‘reading’ them. The doctors surgery, museums, shops, sports centres. So when we stopped at the services on the…
Christmas at Warwick Arts Centre – Gruffalo’s Child and The Lost Gift
I’ve refound my love of Warwick Arts Centre. It’s only 25 minutes drive from us and it has so many great theatre shows, concerts and exhibitions, we really should make more use of it. We saw Paddington Bear’s First Concert…
A steam train visit to Father Christmas in Cheltenham
We visited Father Christmas on the steam train from Cheltenham Racecourse to ‘Lapland’ with GWSR
