Category: Days Out
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Child-friendly pubs? Do they exist in the UK
One thing we really lack locally is truly child-friendly pubs. We have pubs that tolerate children but none that really go beyond offering a children’s menu and many don’t even do that. It’s not that we want to take our daughter to the pub and get ‘fall down’ drunk but on a sunny day it…
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What the h*ll is Geocaching?
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…
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Bucket list for Kids: Fifty things to do before you’re 11 ¾
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…
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My First Sleeping Beauty
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…
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Surviving School Holidays in St Albans
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. …