Activities
Will #bookshopday be a Blustery Day?
Ahead of Books Are My Bag's Bookshop Day on Saturday 8th October, Gill Hart from Lindum Books in Bailgate, Lincoln, is ready to celebrate along with a new nonagenarian... Winnie the Pooh, celebrates an important anniversary this year, it being 90 years since A. A....
Soaking up the joy of Sponge
What does a sponge inspire you to do? Something as exciting as the washing-up? To take a bath? Clean down your cupboards? When Turned On Its Head looked at a sponge, they saw the inspiration for their latest participatory dance show for mini ones. The company's...
Lots of fun at the Fun Palace Weekend
"Part of a worldwide campaign and celebration of culture by, for and with the whole community," Lincoln Fun Palace Weekend is taking place in and around the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre (LPAC) on Saturday, October 1st and Sunday, October 2nd. The "free, community...
Lincolnshire Day – October 1st, 2016
Lincolnshire - the county of big skies, the eponymous sausage, home of the Red Arrows and a varied landscape that encompasses city, town, village and hamlet, coast and countryside and an Area of Outstanding Beauty - it's no wonder it has its own annual celebratory...
The Gravity Fields Festival 2016
Taking place from September 21st to 25th, Gravity Fields is a festival celebrating Sir Isaac Newton and it has entertainment in spades – "for big kids and little". South Kesteven Council's Stephanie Foster picks the highlights of the festival's offerings for mini...
Queen of the reading castle
Have you been to Lincoln Central Library recently? It's not our local branch so we only pop in every now and then when we're in the right area of the city at the right time. But we were definitely rewarded in our latest visit when we wandered around the corner to the...
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Travel
Newark Book Festival 2017
The biggest ever Newark Book Festival promises to transform the Nottinghamshire town into a land of adventure and heroes during the event's weekend of July 15th and 16th. Back for its third year, more than 100 authors, artists, entertainers, wordsmiths and street...
#30DaysWild Day 27 – I’m Not Cute!
Tonight's storytime was I'm Not Cute! by Jonathan Allen. Baby owl takes a walk through the forest and encounters other woodland animals who all think he's cute and fluffy. Baby owl disagrees. Vehemently. He thinks he's a "huge and scary hunting machine". But when...
#30DaysWild Day 26 – Busy bee
With a planned day out to an under 10s theme park, I wasn't sure what form today's #30DaysWild would take. Fortunately Luke had it covered immediately. As soon as he made it downstairs he wanted to make a bee out of a bottle. Apparently Mister Maker would know how...
#30DaysWild Day 25 – The tree that changed how we understand the universe
A Flower of Kent apple tree which produces cooking apples earned itself a page in science history rather than a recipe book when one of its ripe green fruits dropped to the ground in front of a young mathematician, astronomer and physicist. Since known as the "gravity...
#30DaysWild Day 24 – Everything’s coming up wildflowers
We had nothing properly planned for most of today so it was particularly lovely that a last minute decision to attend a school fete also brought about the serendipitous discovery that the school in question had a wildflower area of its own. How fabulous is that? Luke...
#30DaysWild Day 23 – Grow Wild
Have you heard about Grow Wild? The UK's biggest ever wildflower campaign it aims to bring people together "to transform local spaces with native, pollinator-friendly wild flower and plants". The national outreach initiative of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew tells...