A Walk to Wuthering Heights

We mustn't call it Wuthering Heights... but it is

Echoes of My Neighbourhood: the Singing Ringing Tree

Of all the wonderful ideas I've come across in the WordPress community, the Echoes of My Neighbourhood prompt from Jacqueline at acookingpotandtwistedtales.com must be one of the best. The idea, simply, is to share pictures of your local area so bloggers around the world can get a flavour of different cities, landscapes and environments. How …

Family Days Out in Leeds: Leeds City Museum

I’ve had my fair share of underwhelming experiences trying to organise family days out at museums. Last weekend I think I finally got it right with a great afternoon out at Leeds City Museum! These are my five top tips for making the most of one of these free tourist attractions on our doorstep. Make sure …

A day out in the 1900’s – Beamish Open Air Museum

I'm always a bit envious of mummy bloggers who produce seemingly effortless blog posts about family days out, interspersing fun facts about the place they've visited with adorable photos of their offspring.  Every time we have a family trip somewhere I think 'maybe I should blog about this' but somewhere in amongst the bad-weather-lost-gloves-feeling-travel-sick-want-an-ice-cream-I'm-BORED chaos that accompanies …

Greeting the Spring: Marsden Imbolc Fire Festival

A few years ago when we lived in Huddersfield, the Husband and I used to go to the annual Imbolc Fire Festival in Marsden, a small town south west of Huddersfield, on the edge of the moors.  We haven't been for a long time but it was taking place this last weekend, so we decided to take …

A crafty Halloween

For this year's Halloween festivities we did something completely different as a variation to the usual trick or treating and pumpkin carving.   We paid a visit to the lovely Honey Pottery which has recently opened not too far from us. We've visited a couple of times already, but on this occasion they were holding a special Halloween …

No Screen Sunday – take 2

Following on from last Sunday's howling success (or maybe just 'howling') we decided to do No Screen Sunday again yesterday.  Here's nine tips from the day about what worked and what didn't: Getting up early for Junior Park Run - great idea. Dozy parents failing to notice that the junior park runner, having eaten her early breakfast …

History is a personal thing

History is a personal thing.  To really understand the history of a place, you can't just read about it, you have to be part of it. Let me explain what I mean.  I like the countryside, go for days out in the Yorkshire Dales, the Lake District whenever I can.  But it's an alien place.  I …

Possibly the best kids day out in the world

Our latest family outing was to our perennial favourite, Underwater Street in Liverpool.  I should warn you, this is not going to be an objective review, because the kids and me, well we bloomin' love the place and I simply can't think of anything bad  to say about it.  We've been going at least once …

Getting creative at the Hepworth

As part of my campaign to ensure 10YO and 3YO don't spend their entire summer in front of the telly, today we headed for the Hepworth in Wakefield.  They're running various free holiday activities over the next few weeks, and this week's sessions are entitled Artigami, which involves, according to their website: "folding, ripping, bending and more, …