While we were staying in Yorkshire over the Easter break, we spent an afternoon in Skipton to have lunch and explore the castle. James and I have been to the castle before, back before we were married, and we both used to visit with our various family members as children, so it was lovely to …
Over the Easter break we visited Nidderdale AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) in Yorkshire, staying for four nights in a holiday cottage in Pateley Bridge. We spent the week exploring the area, which is full of gorgeous landscapes and interesting places. Pateley Bridge itself is a picturesque town home to the oldest sweet shop …
We are a family of gamers so it was no surprise that we were delighted to be offered press passes to attend Insomnia – the Gaming Festival – at the NEC, Birmingham. The girls are now old enough to be playing all kinds of games on the multiple platforms we have in the house – PC, Switch, and PS5 – and were keen to try some new games and enjoy everything the event had to offer.
Last week we visited North Yorkshire on a bit of a last minute Easter break – we only booked it earlier in the month and so didn’t really do much research on the area or anything, just using the criteria of ‘affordable using clubcard points’, ‘somewhere North’ and ‘maybe near Skipton’ to pick where we …
Lydia turned 11 last month (which seems to have happened way too soon, she’s my little girl!) and so we took her and her best friend, along with her big sister Georgie, for an afternoon out at Air Nation in Kings Heath, South Birmingham to celebrate. Air Nation opened last year and we thought it …
A couple of weeks ago the four of us got up far too early for a Saturday morning and jumped in the car to head South to spend the day at BlogOn Kids. I’ve been helping out at the BlogOn events for years now and especially with the Toy Awards, which have been a huge …
(Ad) Last week we headed into the city centre to attend the launch of the new Legoland Discovery Centre LEGO Ninjago Event, which celebrates 10 years of LEGO Ninjago with lots of fun to be had.
Ad – Press Tickets. This lunchtime we drove over to Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, to attend the Kids Social event at the Parking Lot Social Spring Breakout weekend. An hour an a half of games & music in a field full of cars.
(Ad – Press Tickets) The girls spent an hour and a half enjoying bouncing, swinging, and somersaulting to their hearts content earlier today at Rush UK Birmingham, which reopened this weekend with “Covid Secure” measures in place. We were asked to come along and check out what they are doing to keep their visitors and staff safe, and enjoy what the trampoline park has to offer.
Blists Hill Victorian Town at Ironbridge has reopened with new measures in place for social distancing. We spent the day there, find out what we thought.
