Days Out

What the h*ll is Geocaching?

11 May 2012 1 comment

The best way I can describe it is an outdoor treasure hunt using GPS. You download an app onto your phone, which is £6.99 from the iTunes Store but the rest is free. Then you navigate to the location of the cache (container) and hopefully find it. Inside the container, depending on the size as [...]

Bucket list for Kids: Fifty things to do before you’re 11 ¾

1 May 2012 3 comments

I really liked this list published by the National Trust, except for the addition of the health and safety bits which annoyed me and contradicted the entire article. However, the article made me rather nostalgic, thinking back to when I was growing up in Canada in the great outdoors. We were chucked out the [...]

My First Sleeping Beauty

28 April 2012 1 comment

I don’t think my daughter realises how lucky she is. She’s only 4.5 and she’s already been to her first ballet. I’m 40 and it was my first ballet! We went to see ‘My First Sleeping Beauty’ which was put on by the English National Ballet at the Peacock Theatre in London. It was specifically [...]

Surviving School Holidays in St Albans

3 April 2012 1 comment

As it’s school holidays, I’m just been reminding myself of things to do with kids in or near St Albans. Thought it may be of interest to you as well. Heartwood Forest – in Sandridge. Over the next 12 years the Woodland trust is going to be putting this forest back to its former glory. [...]

Nausicaa Sea-Life Centre only an 1.5 hours from London!

13 October 2011 2 comments

I had no idea there was a Sea-Life Centre, in Boulogne, which in only 1.5 hours from London. We hopped onto the Eurostar at St. Pancras International and within an hour we were in Calais. The Sea-Life centre is only 20km from there. The journey through the tunnel was enough excitement on it’s own for [...]

St Alban’s South Signal Box

10 September 2011 0 comments

We’ve just returned from St Alban’s South Signal Box as part of Heritage Open Days 2011. We’ve gone by it countless times on the train ‘down to London’ as they say but we had no idea that it’s open to the public. In fact, it’s open every second Sunday of the month. Do check the [...]

Boat for Hire

31 July 2011 0 comments

My hubby’s been itching to get Madame on the water. He definitely has a love of the sea; he used to do a lot of scuba diving, sailing and windsurfing. Unfortunately, a lot has changed in the last 20 years in relation to health and safety. So, it’s no longer a matter of popping down [...]

Butterfly World

30 July 2011 0 comments

If you haven’t been to Butterfly World, near St. Albans, in awhile you may be surprised at some of the improvements. When it first opened it was a bit of a disaster; very overpriced, including the café and it was pretty much a building site. It was nice to see all the improvements yesterday, they’ve [...]

Lost for ideas….try a pick your own…

26 July 2011 7 comments

Don’t you just love summer holidays? Not! I’m only on day 3 and already on my knees. I don’t remember as a kid having such a fun filled agenda, my mum used to open the front door shoe us out and that was it for the rest of the day. Now I find myself busier [...]

Win tickets to a Kid’s Festival in August!

29 June 2011 41 comments

Thanks to the lovely people at Lollibop I have a family ticket (4 people) to give away on the blog (value £80) for the Festival on the 5th, 6th and 7th of August in Regents Park. We’re gutted we can’t go as we will be at a family reunion in Canada but it looks like [...]