The UK’s largest celebration of food and drink The Foodies Festival returns for the third consecutive year to the beautiful Tatton Park next weekend, 17th – 19th May. Top chefs, including David Mooney of the New Moon Pub Company, star of the BBC’s Great British Menu Mary-Ellen McTague of Aumbry, Thai restaurant Chaophraya’s executive chef […]
Can you believe it’s almost time for another school holiday? The schools break up for May half term this week and I’ve been looking at what’s on in Manchester and the North West to entertain children over the Bank Holiday weekend and during Half Term… This May Bank Holiday, Geronimo! comes to Tatton Park, Cheshire. […]
Angel Delight is a pudding that’s been around for many years, since 1967 in fact! It’s known for being an instant pudding that’s fun to make as well as eat. Many of us will have grown up with these blue paper sachets in our kitchen cupboards. Does the familiar packaging of Angel Delight bring back […]
One thing that most parents have to put some thought into when they have younger kids is how best to design their bedroom. Children spend a lot of time either playing or sleeping in their bedroom, which means that it is important to make sure you incorporate certain qualities into the design that you […]
Although the weather is making it feel more like Christmas, believe or not Easter will be here in just a few days time. To make it feel a bit more like the Easter holidays I decided to do some baking. As you may know I have been trying to challenge myself with recipes recently, experimenting with […]
I’m a huge fan of Orchard toys puzzles and games, they are great fun, fantastic quality and educational too! We were really excited to have had the opportunity to review some fabulous orchard toys games and puzzles for Izziwizzi Kids Playfest on 30th October and 1st November 2012. You can get involved in the twitter […]
Hi my name is Jen and I’m Mummy to two gorgeous little monsters, Benjamin who is almost 5 and Elizabeth Rose who is 20 months. I am a working Mummy, but even with two incomes in the current finacial climate money is tight! However I still want to be able to take my little ones out, occasionally buy them treats and be able to […]
Posted by My Mummy’s Pennies at 12:54 Labels: Silent Sunday
The Summer holidays are here and like many parents, my first thought is to plan days out and activities to fill the days and prevent the dreaded uttering of ‘Muuuuuuum, I’m bored.’ Boredom isn’t as bad as its reputation makes out, however. In fact, boredom often breeds creativity! To start off the six weeks of summer, […]
What’s Happened? What’s Happening? had a great response again a fortnight ago and we’ve both enjoyed reading all about your summer adventures, days out and holidays in What’s Happened? We’ve loved seeing previews of forthcoming events in What’s Happening? too. Each fortnight we will be choosing our favourites from the previous linky to showcase. This […]
My son is a bright, bubbly and imaginative child with a smile that cannot fail to light up even the dullest of days. The kind and caring way he plays with his younger sister makes me so proud. She looks up to him and learns so much from her ‘Big Ben’. Knowing she is younger […]
Choosing your Christmas tree is undoubtedly one of the highlights of the festive season, but other than the size, what are the things to consider when buying your tree? We have been invited to Delamere Forest tomorrow to choose our very own Christmas tree so the lovely folks at the Forestry Commission have kindly shared some […]
My son Ben loves to build things and the idea of constructing his own battery powered Monster Truck that he could then play with, delighted him! The Racing Truck Technokit from Interplay comes neatly packed in a cardboard box. Inside the box you get: Die Cut Cardboard Panels Axles Pulleys Pulley insert Electric motor Motor […]