Category: Pre-School (3-5)

  • Camping in Style? Co-ordinated camping gear? #giveaway

    Family Camping has never been so glamorous! I absolutely adore camping and spent a lot of my childhood camping in Canada.  On occasion I’ve joked about being buried in my sleeping bag when I die.  Please don’t hold me to this.  However, we’ve done very little camping in the UK, I don’t know if this…

  • Short Breaks for Families near St Albans, Herts

    Bracknell Forest  – Lookout Discovery Centre In my quest to find things near St Albans, Herts to do with my daughter this summer we found ourselves at the Lookout Discovery Centre in Bracknell Forest, which just over an hour away.  It has over 90 interactive science exhibits to explore with your kids.  There is also…

  • 5 Quick and Easy Hairstyles for Little Girls

    5 Easy Hairstyles for Little Girls I’m crap at doing my daughter’s hair and it often resembles a burst mattress!  For the last two years running I’ve forgotten to even brush her hair on school photo day. I wouldn’t have bought the photos but parental guilt kicked in. During the school year I don’t have…

  • How to treat Swimmer Itch (Duck Itch)

    What is Swimmer’s Itch? Growing up in Canada everyone knows what duck itch or swimmers itch is and you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who hasn’t had it. Once it flares up it resembles chicken pox.  It’s a ‘worm-like’ parasite that burrows in the skin resulting in itchy spots and usually lasts 3-5 days. How…

  • Outdoor Theatre near Kamloops

    Caravan Farm Theatre – Armstrong, B.C. The Caravan Farm Theatre in Armstrong, near Kamloops has been running for 35 years.  I’m trying to work out the first time I went and think it was about 18 years ago.  We went  again about 3 years ago and again this week to see Head over Heels. ‘There…