Zero Waste – How to Have a Fun Halloween While Social Distancing
Zero waste Halloween Wow where did the Summer go? We’re now well into September and the leaves are starting to ...
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Easter Egg Hunt at Waddesdon Manor
National Trust Cadbury Easter Egg Hunt Over the last few years Cadburys has teamed up with the National Trust and ...
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5 Highlights of 2018 We Shared With our Grandsons
2018 Highlights 2018 was another busy year and we managed to fit in lots of trips with our Grandsons, when ...
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5 Of Our Favourite Places To Go In October Half Term
October Half Term I can’t believe it is only 3 weeks until the October Half Term. It only seems as ...
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Our Unforgettable Trip to Lapland
Lapland I love Christmas and I’ve always wanted to go to Lapland to visit Father Christmas. We didn’t manage to ...
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Grandkids Learning to Surf in Croyde Bay North Devon
Surfing in Croyde Bay Last week I wrote about how the Boys enjoyed their Coasteering session in Croyde Bay, but ...
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Coasteering in Croyde Bay North Devon
As I’ve mentioned in my Blogs before we love to go to Croyde Bay in Devon with all the family ...
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50 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU’RE 11 ¾ – PART 6
We love our National Trust family membership. It’s great fun going out for the day exploring, and with an annual ...
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Why do siblings fight?
Why Do Siblings Fight? With 3 grandsons between the ages of 6 and 11 I sometimes feel that I’m in ...
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Top tips for surviving a music festival with kids
Family Friendly Music Festivals with kids There are now numerous family friendly music festivals that not only cater for the ...
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Center Parcs Longleat, Overview of 5 of our Favourite Activities
Center Parcs Longleat We were looking after the Boys for a long weekend while G and Mr G were at ...
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50 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU ARE 11 ¾ – PART 5
National Trust This is Part 5 of our National Trust has updated its list of 50 things to do before ...
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50 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU ARE 11 ¾ – PART 4
National Trust This is Part 4 of our 50 things to do before you are 11 ¾ and we’re up ...
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50 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU ARE 11 ¾ – PART 3
If you’ve read Part 1 and Part 2 of my 50 things to do before you are 11 ¾ you’ll ...
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kids Bedtime, the Tween Years
Kids Bedtime Kids bedtime always seems to become a bit of a challenge at some point. Our three grandsons were ...
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50 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU’RE 11 ¾ – PART 2
We love our National Trust family membership. It’s great fun going out for the day exploring, and with an annual ...
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50 things to do before you’re 11 ¾ – Part 1
National Trust We’ve had a National Trust family membership for years. It’s great fun going out for the day exploring, ...
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Parents Guide to Pocket Money
Pocket Money The average amount of pocket money that kids are now getting is somewhere between £5.75 and £6.50 per ...
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Rock Pooling, National Trust 50 things to do
National Trust 50 Things to do Before you’re 11 3/4 We’ve had a National Trust family membership for years. It’s ...
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Tweens and Fortnite
The Latest Craze - Fortnite If you’ve got boys over the age of 8 and I mention the word Fortnite ...
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Tween Attitude, Where did that come from?
Tweens – Where did that Attitude Come From? You’ve got past the terrible 2s, they’re settled into School and everything ...
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What to love about your Tween
The Tween Years Each stage of childhood development is different and each one has its own challenges and rewards. Parenting ...
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Port Lympne Safari Park
Port Lympne I’d never heard of the Port Lympne Safari Park until I saw an advert on the London Underground for ...
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Tweens – How Much Screen Time?
What is Screen Time? Let’s start with the basics, What is Screen Time? Screen Time includes any time spent using ...
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Family Friendly Music Festival – Truck Festival
Brilliant photo of Z taken by Entirety Labs the official photographers at Truck Festival - the family friendly music festival ...
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Time for Football, Man Utd at Old Trafford
So How Come We Support Man Utd Football Club When people ask which football team we support, and the answer ...
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Day Out at Chedworth Roman Villa
National Trust We've had a National Trust family membership for years. It's great fun going out for the day exploring, ...
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Urban Sports – Indoor Skateparks
Urban Sports - Skateboarding, Freestyle BMX and Stunt scooters Half term is fast approaching and it’s time to start thinking ...
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Making childhood memories – Our annual family trip to Croyde North Devon
Some of my fondest childhood memories are of seaside family holidays in the UK, rock pooling with long handled nets, ...
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Aaah Grandkids homework, so what’s a Split digraph and 4 Fact Family (Maths)
I really don’t remember G having so much homework at Primary school but maybe that’s just my memory! The Boys ...
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How to survive Public Transport in London with Kids
Plane (Emirates Airline),Train (Tube) & Automobile (Bus) lets GoWhen I read mother_pukka’s Insta post about a new feature on free ...
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Living with Tweens
What's A Tween? So, what is a Tween? Tween is short for Tweenager and describes someone usually between the age ...
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