Posted by My Mummy’s Pennies at 02:28 Labels: family, Silent Sunday, zoo

My husband and I share a love of travelling and we have a long list of places we would love to visit together at some point. Although our family holidays have all been in the UK so far we have managed a few trips to Europe as a couple. Our first holiday together was to […]

So it’s officially Autumn! The leaves are beautiful shades of brown and the horse chestnuts are falling from the trees… Nothing feels more autumnal to me than wrapping up warm and going on a hunt for conkers! My children were very excited to discover the huge horse chestnut tree (or Aesculus hippocastanum if you want to […]

While we are away camping at Low Wray in the Lake District the lovely Fiona from Mama’s Little Baby Loves has kindly written this fabulous guest post to share with you her one of her top tips for Camping with toddlers…. This summer I went camping for the first time. Well technically, I’ve been camping […]

I often think about my childrens’ future. I think about what they may be when they grow up, about their first relationships, their first jobs, whether they will go to university or travel the world, maybe both? I have no expectations other than wanting them to be happy, to follow their dreams. I wonder about […]

I post my photos each day and don’t usually do a weekly round up but I just couldn’t pick my favourite photo from this week so here we are… I really feel like I have captured my family this week, the large picture shows Ben and Elizabeth reading their current favourite book Room on the […]

How would you like to win a £25 Sainsbury’s voucher to spend on whatever you want? Well it’s your lucky day!! The lovely folks at over at Sainsbury’s Bank Car Insurance. have offered a £25 voucher for one My Mummy’s Pennies reader! They recently introduced the ‘Taxi of Mum and Dad Calculator’ — a fun way […]

  As part of the Imperirial War Museum North’s Free Summer Activities, they will be will be hosting a week-long programme of activities and events inspired by Bernard Ashley’s children’s book Little Soldier, which is one of the books that feature in the Once Upon A Wartime exhibition. Today he was at IWMN and visitors […]

My four year old Ben has a love of building things. From simple towers and bridges with his Lego to ‘helping’ Daddy put the IKEA furniture together! He has his own sets of wooden and plastic ‘play’ tools but he is fascinated by Daddy’s real ones! So I was very excited to discover Red Toolbox! […]

So as you may have seen on facebook and twitter this week I have finally starting something I have been putting off for too long… the dreaded weight loss programme! Since having Ben over five years ago, my weight has been up and down quiet a bit. I finally got back to a size I was happy with […]

A while ago I met up with some fellow northern bloggers at the wonderful Rosy Lee Tea Rooms in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, we were joined by some very creative ladies from the Ministry of Craft and some beautiful Laura Ashley fabrics and paper. I have been meaning to tell you about this event for some […]

83/365 getting ready for a sugar high! Posted by My Mummy’s Pennies at 22:21 Labels: #365, 365 photo project

Like most children, my two are huge fans of Disney’s hit movie Frozen, they especially love the songs and we can regularly be found singing along to the sound track CD in the car! You can imagine how delighted they were when we were invited to the attend the Singalong Frozen show at the Lowry […]

What’s Christmas without a visit to Santa’s Grotto? Last week we took a trip to Chill Factore in Manchester to visit a very special Grotto hidden away in the snow! If you like your family fun to be full of excitement, nothing beats the magic of Santa’s Snow Grotto on REAL snow this Christmas, It’s just like visiting the […]