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What did you get up to last bank holiday weekend? It is really nice to have a break and get away as and when there's the option. Before kids, the OH and I used to head to a posh hotel and treat ourselves to a nice meal or a spa, or both... those luxuries are not so easy nowadays, but ...

The lovely folk at the Accidental Festival contacted us about this weekend's shows at The Roundhouse Camden. There is lots going on for families click here to find out more. Also we have a pair of tickets to give away for Inside My Imagination. All you have to do is RT one of our tweets about the competition and make sure you  follow us ...

I love going to art galleries; I love looking at paintings and I love the peace of an art gallery. Can you manage to experience this with a 4 year old and a 5 week old? Well, last Monday that is what I attempted to do. Munchkin, B2 and I spent several hours in the National Gallery and had a ...

Today's guest post was written by Ruth's OH @Astro_Den and was originally posted on Feb 9th 2013 on www.astronomersden.wordpress.com When I was a small astronomer one of the highlights of my early interest was the London Planetarium. It is one of those trips with my parents that I remember very fondly and still feel the edge of excitement from the start ...

The lovely people at Virgin Money Travel gave us some tickets to London Zoo and asked us to go enjoy ourselves and write about it - an offer we were not about to refuse! We could not have had more perfect weather for the day with a clear blue sky, bright sunshine and crisp, fresh air.  London Zoo is situated in ...

Well, you know that Loretta and I are keen supporters of all things reading, for both parents and kids and when we were contacted by Polka Theatre to help them raise awareness of their London Bookswap event, we definitely wanted to be involved. This Bookswap is a London wide event managed by Discover Children’s Centre, who we visited just a few ...

I LOVE the theatre.  Half my degree at University was theatre based.  I enjoy the experience of pretty much any type of performance just as I love going to exercise my critical appreciation.  And I am really loving passing this on to Munchkin.  I am lucky we live in London. There are so many venues with so many shows aimed ...

So, it’s Christmas Eve and hopefully I am all ready for the big day tomorrow.  Munchkin is very excited and luckily for us nursery sent home the letter to Father Christmas requesting two specific books which she wanted. They would have remained unbought had the clever nursery staff not sent the letter to us to forward to the big FC ...

Maths can be something that we shy away from.  Somehow it is more socially acceptable to say that you are bad at Maths than at English - despite the fact that Maths is such a part of everyday life.  If we are going to inspire future mathematicians we must move past this negativity and inspire our children to be interested ...

Last Monday I uploaded a free factsheet about reading and promised that maths and science would follow.  So, here, today is science: Fact sheet science.  These are collated thoughts about the world of science and how to introduce your child to these things. There are many blogs out there with brilliant science experiments for little ones. We have a good number ...