Farmer Palmers winter experience. Who says you can't go to the farm in winter? Usually we wait until the Spring but on this occasion we brave the cold weather. Dear mummy, frost is on the car when we head off to Dorset to Farmer Palmers adventure farm. It's over an hour's journey from our house... Continue Reading →
Pots 2 Paint, Basingstoke, Hampshire Dear mummy, it's the start of the February half term and it's miserable. Heavy rain, high winds and all the local soft play centres are packed. Oh mummy, after a horrible trip to a nearby soft play centre for an hour we retreat back home to put on our comfy... Continue Reading →
Melissa and Doug - Alphabet Nesting and Stacking Blocks Dear Mummy, it was my birthday a couple of weeks ago and we're slowly working our way through opening my presents and trying out all my new toys. My mummy wants to do it in stages as not to overload my senses with all these new... Continue Reading →
Seeing Stars at my 2nd Birthday Party Dear mummy, phew! It's taken us nearly a week to recover from my birthday shenanigans. The cards are still up on the mantelpiece - a fine balancing act as there are so many of them. They are like dominos, if you go to move one they all fall down.... Continue Reading →
Alice Holt and The Gruffalo's Child Trail Dear Mummy, it's our second attempt at visiting the Gruffalo's Child Trail event, organised by the Forestry Commission. It's been happening up and down the country since Autumn 2014. This time we visited Alice Holt Forest in Farnham, Surrey as opposed to our last trip to Moors Valley in... Continue Reading →
Visiting Kingston Lacy, National Trust, Dorset. January 19, 2015. Dear mummy, this week we headed across the county border into Dorset to visit to Kingston Lacy. Kingston Lacy is a Grade 1 listed country house and estate owned by the National Trust. It's just on the other side of the quaint Wimborne Minster, off the A31,... Continue Reading →
A sweet treat from Baker Days Dear mummy, we love cake! So imagine our delight when the postman delivered a cake through the letterbox! A heavy clunk on the front door mat. It nearly scared the life out of us. We ran to the door and saw a very thin white cardboard box on the... Continue Reading →
Where? You may ask. Where indeed... Dear mummy, we visited The Moors Valley Country Park in Dorset over the weekend to join other little children on the Forestry Commission's Gruffalo trail and we were a bit disappointed. Oh No! Luckily for us the company of NCT friends and families made it worthwhile for us and a... Continue Reading →
A winter walk at Mount Stewart, National Trust Dear Mummy, on our recent trip to Northern Ireland we headed outside Belfast to find an old National Trust estate called Mount Stewart. It's an 18th-century property situated on the east shore of Strangford Lough (or Strangeford as my mummy calls it). It's about 40 minutes from Belfast where we... Continue Reading →
Dear mummy, what is it with the man in the red suit? Father Christmas, Santa Claus and Saint Nic. He's the same person right? Today we visited Marwell Wildlife to see the man in question....I don't know why and I'm too young to understand. All I know is that he passes judgement on little children,... Continue Reading →
Winter Wonderland in London's Hyde Park Dear Mummy, thank you for being brave enough to venture into the big smoke and take me to London's Winter Wonderland, I've had a really great time! It's not often that we brave London as a family, you see the thought of boarding a train full of commuters, packed... Continue Reading →
Dr Brown's Training Cup For tried & tested this week we are trying out this new training cup from Dr Brown's. I'm a bit of a mucky pup and constantly spill juice down my chin and knock things over. So we're hoping this training cup from Dr Brown's is a good solution to my dribbly ways.... Continue Reading →
Christmas at Mottisfont, National Trust "The Nutcracker" Today king of mice, tonight king of dolls. Tomorrow... king of EVERYTHING! -Mouse King Dear Mummy, it's December and we are looking for fun things to do in Hampshire over the Christmas period. As you all know we're big fans of The National Trust and have been members... Continue Reading →
Dear mummy, so the clue is in the title and I'm not talking about the shopping centre bit! Festival Place has only been opened for 12 years but already has its heart at the centre of the community. Festival in name and festival in nature, it really is a feast for the eyes! It's a super modern,... Continue Reading →
Going down the road to 'Little Street'. My review on this fabulous children's role play centre in Surrey. Dear mummy, the weather's been miserable recently and our long walks in the countryside have been put on hold. All the puddle jumping I've been doing recently has been on footpaths and in car parks visiting soft... Continue Reading →
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