Summer is just around the corner. This year, the summer solstice, which marks the official start of summer, takes place on 21stJune. This brings with it warmer temperatures and longer daylight hours, which means greater demand for green spaces. The most important green space of all is, of course, your own garden. When the migration from indoors to outdoors takes place, you want to be sure that…
This blog post looks into ideas on how to transform your kids’ bedroom on a budget. Every now and then, you may feel motivated to give your child’s room a makeover, but what if you haven’t got the budget you’d like? Re-decorating isn’t often gentle on the bank account, especially when lots of new furniture is involved. Fortunately, there are things you can do to transform your…
To celebrate the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, millions of British royal fans will throw street parties and eat delicious food. A royal wedding is only a good excuse to get closer to neighbours we never talk to or make new friends in the local communities. It’s a great opportunity to get creative with the kids so we have tried some new crafts inspired both by my super talented…
Lots of people assume that if you live in London you don’t get to have a garden, but in reality, nearly 15% of Greater London is garden green space. This shows that it is entirely possible to have a family home with a garden in the city – although admittedly your garden may be a little smaller than gardens outside of the city!
If you want to transform your outside space into a family…
Easter break family fun does not need to be expensive at all. Read London Mums top holiday activities including indoors and outdoors entertainment which will cost you close to nothing.
Watch a movie
As for the first part of the Easter break there’s a bad weather forecast I suggest you look in your DVD library for your favourite family films and stay inside nibbling healthy snacks (and a…
This Winter has been too long and cold and I really look forward to this Spring – Easter break. It will be good for children too to be off school and get the much-needed mental energy to face the final rush before the Summer.
I also know that for mums it will be a challenging time trying to entertain the little (and less little) ones for almost three weeks. London is not a bad place at…
Recently I boarded the time travel machine to meet the greatest playwright of all time, William Shakespeare, in Stratford Upon Avon where he was born in 1564 and where he now (in 1599) lives in his New House residence.
Mr Shakespeare gave me a tour of his father’s house to give me an idea of how it was like living in Elizabethan England.
He was one of eight children but only four survived the…
To celebrate Shakespeare Week as part of my Shakespeare Research Project for English in year 7 in secondary school I was recently asked to do an interview with William Shakespeare so I had to go back in time to do it. I headed to Stratford Upon Avon during half term and did just that. This is the result of my chat with one of the world’s best talents.
The time travel machine has brought me…
I can see you all at home, yummy mummies, desperately trying to get a costume prepared for the World Book Day parade at school and maybe win a prize for your little ones. And here I am sharing my latest creation with you, another award winning costume. For the past seven years when my son was in primary school I spent lots of hours creating costumes for World Book Day. For Diego’s final year we…
Every year people around the UK world come together to celebrate the power of reading on World Book Day. Here in the UK, children receive free books and schools hold all sorts of events – from making their own stories to having a visit from an author.
But around the world, millions of children can’t join in the celebrations because they don’t have books. At home, poverty prevents families…