Mediocre Mum

Category: Travel

  • Lost for ideas….try a pick your own…

    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…

  • Traveling with kids in London

    I overheard a rather interesting conversation today at work, obviously two blokes in their early 20s without kids. They were fuming about mums on trains/tubes with prams, saying that they should have to pay for the prams, just like cyclists have to pay to take their bikes. Is that actually true? I have had the…

  • Kite Flying, Dunstable Downs, Beds

    We’ve had an absolutely magical day!  It was sunny but breezy.  Thanks to good old twitter, someone (@southportlush) suggested flying a kite.  Slight panic as we didn’t have a kite, luckily, you can buy Kites in the National Trust Centre at Dunstable Downs. Parking £1.50, Kite £12 and Lattes and Bacon Butties for Mummy and…

  • Santa’s Magical Kingdom, Kent, UK

    We went to see Father Christmas on Saturday courtesy of the lovely people at Hop Farm in Kent!  I know, it’s only flippin November and Christmas Comes Far Too Early!  However, it was absolutely brilliant and worth the 70 mile journey with a 3 year old in the back alternating between ‘where is Father Christmas’…

  • Family Holiday, Bude, Cornwall April 2010

    We’ve just returned from a short break to Bude, Cornwall.  We were absolutely blessed with the weather and I can’t recommend the place we stayed at enough.  Just for the record I do not get any kick backs of any type for recommending this place.  We stayed at the Atlantic Cottages on the West Grove…