Tag: days

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

    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…

  • Butterfly World

    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…

  • Win tickets to a Kid’s Festival in August!

    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…

  • Twelve Days of Christmas! Kiwi Style

    Next contacted me to help promote their Twelve Days of Christmas, it immediately reminded me of New Zealand.  I originally trained as a teacher in Canada but there wasn’t a lot of work for teachers.  At the time, NZ had a shortage of teachers and were offering $3000 to relocate.  You didn’t have to ask…

  • Dinosaur Days!

    We accidently had a Dinosaur themed weekend.  Someone recently suggested ‘theme-ing’ your week with your kids (e.g under the water, at the Zoo, etc.).  However, to be honest I thought it sounded a bit wanky and far too organised for me.  Nonetheless, in this case it worked out well. Last week a friend recommended Knebworth…