A week or so ago we picked up one of Georgie’s best friends, Lily, and took her for a day out at Warwick Castle with us, to check out what they have on offer for the Christmas season. It was a really lovely day out and thankfully the weather was (mostly) kind to us, letting us explore the castle and grounds to our hearts content.… Continue Reading “Christmas at Warwick Castle”
I absolutely loved the most recent Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film, and even though they aren’t in it loads, the baby Nifflers stole the show quite a bit. And – no major spoilers here, I promise – the adult Niffler is pretty much a main character.… Continue Reading “Review: Niffler & Baby Niffler plushes”
I have a really exciting giveaway for you today! Haynes, famous for their longstanding history of creating fantastic manuals, have released a Build Your Own V8 Engine set, and I have one to give away here on the Mama Geek blog!… Continue Reading “WIN a Haynes Build Your Own V8 Engine!”
Unicorns are still very much in trend, and the girls were delighted to be sent this Unicorn Ring Toss game to review! It comes with two unicorn horns so they can both be unicorns at the same time, to play with each other.… Continue Reading “Review: Unicorn Magic Ring Toss”
A couple of weekends ago we visited the Blithbury Reindeer Lodge to try out their ‘Christmas Lapland Experience’ with the children. The girls were really excited to see and feed the “real live reindeer” and that was definitely the highlight of our visit.… Continue Reading “Christmas Lapland Experience at Blithbury Reindeer Lodge”
We recently popped into town and, while we were there, headed into House of Fraser to visit their in-store grotto, which has been running each Christmas at the store for quite a few years now. … Continue Reading “Visiting the Grotto at House of Fraser”
This next printable in my series of freebies is a pretty basic but fun Christmas crossword aimed at primary school level kids, with a bit of help from an older sibling or adult for the spellings and so on. Enjoy! Download Pin it for later
Around this time five years ago, we had our offer on this house accepted and were preparing to purchase our first house. We didn’t get the keys until March the following year, but we knew which house we’d be moving in to – and boy, does it need a lot of improvement.… Continue Reading “Thinking ahead: our house plans”
Last week we attended the press night for The Wizard of Oz at The REP Birmingham and were absolutely blown away by the show. It was totally fantastic, from start to finish – all four of us really enjoyed it.… Continue Reading “The Wizard of Oz at The REP, Birmingham”
I’ve got another Christmas freebie printable for you today – or more accurately for your kids. Lydia really loves doing sudoku puzzles, so I thought I would make some simple Christmas themed ones for her, and share them with you too. These are definitely ‘easy’ rated puzzles aimed at kids, but let me know in the comments if you want some similar festive ones which… Continue Reading “Free Christmas printables – Sudoku”
Last weekend we spent a morning enjoying some time at one of the kids’ favourite places, the Birmingham Sea Life Centre, which is currently looking pretty festive for their Christmas event! You can visit Santa in his grotto (included in the standard ticket price) and enjoy a Christmas film in the 4D cinema.… Continue Reading “Merry Fish-mas! Visiting Santa at Sea Life”
As a long time Disney fan, I really enjoy doing a good Disney themed jigsaw – and I also love a nice Christmas jigsaw puzzle – so this puzzle joins the two themes together which makes for a pretty great jigsaw.… Continue Reading “Review: Ravensburger Disney Christmas 1000pc Jigsaw Puzzle”
Following on from my free “Dear Santa” letters which is one of my most popular printables in the lead up to Christmas every year, I thought I would create & share some new Christmas themed printables this winter! I’ll be sharing a couple of these a week throughout December. First up is a simple but fun Christmas themed wordsearch, using lowercase letters to make it… Continue Reading “Free Christmas printables – Wordsearch”
