Poppy Cat @ Birmingham’s National Sea Life Centre

Poppy Cat

We are very excited to be visiting Birmingham’s National Sea Life Centre this Saturday, as we will be able to take a fascinating journey discovering a magical underwater world filled with a dazzling array of amazing creatures from the coastline to the depths of the ocean. The boys are in for an extra treat as … Read more

National Play Day August 7th 2013

Every Summer we all go over to the Park (some of us travel in cars, some on the bus) and have a fab fab day out, all for a couple of £s per child.  It really is a bargain as there’s so much provided  – and it’s all in the name of National Play Day. … Read more

Understanding Sensory Modulation

We receive lots of information through all our senses. They tell us what we can hear, feel, see, smell, which way up we are and movement. We then filter out which bits of information we need to make sense of things, and to tell us how to behave. Sometimes we all can struggle with this … Read more

Christmas Bingo

I love how adaptable this Christmas Bingo set is and how much fun and learning it provides, across the ages of my 3 children (aged 9, 5 and 3). My 5 year old has just started school and is  learning to read – what a fun way of spelling out the words to match them … Read more

Party Time

So our little boy turned 3 last month. He doesn’t say a lot but one day he uttered the words “Party!” Unfortunately it was too late in the day to get the hall for his birthday and the absolute only time it wasn’t booked up was the Saturday of the Bank Holiday weekend. All he … Read more

£9.50 Sun Holiday Hoburne Torbay

Earlier this month we visited Hoburne Torbay as our £9.50 Sun Holiday. We had wanted to go in the first part of the Easter Holidays so this Monday-Friday break meant we actually left on Good Friday. The reason we decided on this location was to visit Splashdown @ Quaywest – which is an AMAZING waterpark – … Read more