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I LOVE photographs, taking them, printing them and looking at them. I love that we have a large collection of moments to look back over, but I am camera shy. I hate having my picture taken. But my boys need me to be in the family photosgraphs.
Do you ever feel the fear when you are looking at booking a hotel room for the family? I don’t think that I have unrealistic expectations. I just want a comfortable bed for all of us, a great breakfast at reasonable price.
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Do you love or dread the long summer holidays? I always find them challenging, but do love spending time with my boys and this summer I am teaming up with Calypso to bring you some fabulous simple fun ideas for the holidays. #HolidayHacks for kids of all ages.
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It seems that travel with kids have changed a lot since I was small, mostly for the better. I remember being carried to the car in my PJ’s in the middle of the night and laid down on the back seat to go back to sleep without seatbelts, yes I am that old! I love
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Festivals are not new to me or MadDad, in fact, we attended our first festival 22 years ago and were regular festival goers until Maxi was born 11 years ago. But Camp Bestival was to be our first festival with kids and tweens at that as the boys are 10 and 11.
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I am delighted to be working with the nation’s leading breakfast cereal Weetabix to help publicise their Summer of Sport campaign #SportingStarts. If you know me and the rest of my family then you will know that we LOVE sports. Way back when, I really loved playing Hockey and MadDad played a lot of sports
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Ever since experiencing the Sunderland Airshow of the bridge of a DFDS Seaways ferry, Mini has always wanted to cross the channel on a Ferry. So on our recent trip to Domain de Mathevies, France, we decided to brush aside the fact that I suffer terribly with seasickness and make the trip from Dover to
Do you worry about your children and Internet safety? Ever thought what Romeo and Juliet would look like in the digital age? Well, some things like young love and children never change, but the world around them does and this fab thought provoking film highlights how things might look for the star-crossed lovers today.
It’s tough being a teenager these days. Not that it was ever easy. But the world is moving faster than ever, and influences flow in from all sides twenty-four hours a day, bombarding kids with more pressure than some of them can handle. Everything coming in from outside can lead to or exacerbate personal challenges
