The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of short breaks, nights away from the kids and a weekend blog conference for me. In between there’s been work and the usual daily routines to keep us busy. It’s been brilliant, inspiring and exhausting. We were overdue some quality family time at home and last week…
We were really late planning our Easter break, mainly because we’ve been arranging lots of trips for April, May and June. It suddenly crept up on us. With our lack of organisation it could have been a bit of a disaster but it turned out to be an amazing weekend. A week before I had…
What’s your favourite animal at the zoo? I’d have a pretty hard time deciding between the penguins and the giraffes. And after a trip to Bristol Zoo’s Wild Place Project I’d have to add Lemurs to the mix too! The Tin Box girls and I were invited to a bloggers event at the Wild Place…
A visit to a farm is always a great family day out, but finding one that will also allow dogs is a bit of a rarity. Amelia Trust Farm in the Vale of Glamorgan is one such gem. We visited during our #GlamAdventure weekend in February. About Amelia Trust Farm Amelia Trust Farm is a charity…
We’ve teamed up with the lovely people at Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park to offer you a one-day family pass to use in 2016. This multi-award winning family attraction is a great family day out whatever the weather. We visited in February and had lots of fun in the indoor play areas and meeting the…
We had our first Devon house guests this month – Grandma and Grandpa Tin Box – which gave us the perfect excuse to explore our local area. Despite the less than lovely weather I suggested we visit the River Dart Country Park as I thought it would give us all a chance to stretch our…
There are few stories that sum up the festive season more than Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. So when I heard that there was A Christmas Carol themed trail at Mottisfont Abbey near Romsey in Hampshire I made sure it was on our bucket list of pre-Christmas family activities. While we haven’t been able…
At last, it’s December and perfectly acceptable to mention…Christmas! To be fair, I’ve been doing it quite a lot having already shared our pre-Christmas bucket list a whole month ago. Last weekend we ticked off one of the activities I was most excited about: the Victorian Festival of Christmas at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (27 to…
A review of our visit to Peppa Pig World at Paulton’s Park – a Hampshire attraction and theme park perfect for toddlers
At the tender age of two and a half the majority of Tin Box Tot’s dinosaur knowledge comes from George off Peppa Pig. Yes, dinosaurs go ‘grrrr’. I was keen to broaden her horizons a bit so last weekend I took her off to SeaCity Museum in Southampton.Mr Tin Box was busy preparing our top…