Tag: st. albans
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Highlight of Half-term: Forest School
And breathe! We’ve just come to the end of a very busy half-term. For once, I was organised and booked a few activities in for Madame. She’s been to the local farm, play dates with friends, Play in the Parks Scheme, Spooky Animal Magic and Trick or Treating. We almost need a break from our…
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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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Don’t fancy letting your kids at your iPad?
My daughter has been flying around my iphone since she was about 2. It’s loaded up with tons of fantastic educational games for her. However, there are times when I need to use my phone for work, but I also need her to be quiet in the background when I’m trying to make calls which…
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St Alban’s South Signal Box
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…
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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…