Children of Lincoln

Have you heard about the Children of Lincoln project? At the beginning of November Daddy and the two eldest minis attended a family fun day entitled Imagining a ‘Child Friendly’ Lincoln at the University of Lincoln.  They enjoyed some art and crafts...

The Light Princess

Using elements of circus and classical choreography, a new full length ballet taking the tale of Sleeping Beauty as its inspiration is being performed at the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre this weekend. Ballet Cymru’s The Light Princess tells the story of a...

Heigh-Ho Ho Ho, it’s off to the grotto we go

If my blog stats are accurate then many of you are a lot more organised than me (although I probably didn’t need numbers compiling to tell me that). Last year’s Looking to find the man in red?, a list of where the bearded one and his helpers were appearing...

Author event may inspire children to write

Billed as “amazing, action packed stories,” you can find out more about from the author of Desert Thieves and Sky Thieves himself when Dan Walker visits a Lincoln bookshop on Saturday (October 14th, 2017). Aimed at ages 9-12, the swashbuckling adventure...

Bushcraft, browsing and a Wobbly Bodger

Autumn is my favourite season so it’s lovely to hear of other people celebrating it too. National Trust property Belton House holds an annual Autumn Fayre and this weekend (Saturday, October 14th and Sunday 15th) is 2017’s time to host it. “The two...

Seven things I hate about school

Before I start on this rant I want to make it clear that I’m obviously grateful for the universal public education offered in this country and that when I was originally bemoaning not getting the school of our choice for our eldest seeing Malala joining Twitter...