Archives: March 2012

IT’S not even April and the summer sun is here already. But don’t get your hopes up for a sun-soaked UK though – the weathermen say, despite the current drought, it’s going to be a damp squib of a summer. Great, eh? So, as you’re dashing out to buy new sun-lotion, deck shoes, summer vests [...]

Fancy winning a cracking holiday this Easter? Well check out our egg-cellent competition starting on Monday 2 April and one could be yours. All you have to do is go to our website each day from Monday 2 April and find the Easter Eggs, which will be hidden on a selection of pages until Monday [...]

We loved reading all your entries, so thanks very much for your time and effort. Our judges had a very hard time deciding who the winners were, but chose Noah Wood and Sarah Copeland. Noah Wood, aged six, wrote a fantastic piece about his trip to Derbyshire, which the judges thought was well written and [...]

Because my mum uses a wheelchair, our family usually go on holiday close to home, but last Spring we were lucky enough to spend a week in Paris!! I was so excited, and even Daniel, my teenage brother could not wait. We spent the first 3 days in Disneyland Paris. It was the most brilliant [...]

And here is the second. Watch out for more blogger competitions:   Family Fun en Francais Once a year if you are lucky (more than once a year if you are really lucky) you get to escape from it all.  With an over-packed suitcase crammed full of more clothing than one family could ever need, but packed [...]

We had two winners to the Mummy Blogger competition – here is the first winner for you to read: Sunshine on a Sofa Day We’re having a sofa day, which is nowhere near as relaxing as it sounds when your sofa is a collapsed, creaky relic that’s so retro it’s beyond ever being cool. But hey [...]

As part of our recent Mummy Blogger competition they won the chance to be featured on our blog. Here’s the ninth runner up for you to read: Our Scandinavian sojourn I’ve written before about how difficult I find leaving the house so it’s probably no surprise that going away for any length of time is [...]

As part of our recent Mummy Blogger competition they won the chance to be featured on our blog. Here’s the eighth runner up for you to read: A life changing holiday. With added monkeys. Some holidays change your life forever. I don’t mean you come back the colour of roasted flamingo and 10 pounds heavier from [...]

As part of our recent Mummy Blogger competition they won the chance to be featured on our blog. Here’s the seventh runner up for you to read:   This blog entry is a competition entry for the lovely Tots100/Alfresco competition, in which I write about my best ever holiday. — We never would have gone [...]

As part of our recent Mummy Blogger competition they won the chance to be featured on our blog. Here’s the sixth runner up for you to read:   Our Favorite Holiday On Jan.24.12 , In holidays , by Mum in the Madhouse If you had asked me BC (before children) what my favorite holiday was, it would [...]