Activities
Marvellous machines, creating kindness and bedtime stories…
Newark Book Festival 2021
Summer season shows set to be back on stage!
Lincoln Performing Arts Centre announces theatre line-up
Ways to inspire your mini ones for Hedgehog Awareness Week
Cute and snuffly, the hedgehog is one of Britain's most-loved wild animals but sadly our only spiny mammal is now officially classed as vulnerable to extinction. Hedgehog Awareness Week 2021 (May 2nd-8th), run by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, is...
Create, play, read and craft – but, above all, imagine
Newark Book Festival Imaginarium
Chakraji and Calm Callum
The state of children's mental health has been a growing concern in recent years and it is unsurprising that the pandemic's continuing effects have seen the problem grow even worse. Hansa Pankhania, who founded AUM Wellbeing Consultancy, has plenty of experience as a...
Baking, time travel, natural exploration and crafting fun delivered directly through your letterbox
2020 has been the year of staying in and the toys mini ones receive under the tree this year may have a greater opportunity to be played with this festive season if schools are delayed in returning next term. But many parents will still be searching for suggestions of...
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Travel
#30DaysWild Day 20 – Greetwell Hollow
Not to be put off by yesterday's less than successful attempt at discovering somewhere new we headed out today to try somewhere even more local that I've been meaning to visit for some time but it's taken a pandemic lockdown for me to finally get there. I'd assumed...
#30DaysWild Day 19 – Fiskerton Fen
After our new lockdown discoveries of Starmers Pit and Ashing Lane Nature Reserve we were feeling emboldened today and headed out in the car to pastures new once more. And you can't beat a personal recommendation can you? So when my friend Rachel Eldridge suggested...
#30DaysWild Day 18 – Splash in a puddle
If the day gives you near constant rain then take the chance to splash in the puddles in between the downpours. Click here to find out more about #30DaysWild.
#30DaysWild Day 17 – Grass seed
A quick one today to repair a patch of the garden as some of our logs pieces have started to give way - Willow helped to sow some grass seed. Click here to find out more about #30DaysWild.
#30DaysWild Day 16 – City explorers
The minis had a trip to Lincoln Arboretum with daddy this morning. They particularly like to run around the small hedge maze and the bandstand and there are also signs to look out for by particular trees explaining what they are and where they're from. It was their...
#30DaysWild Day 15 – Swirl by Swirl
We've been very grateful to post deliverers of all types during these last 12 weeks for adding a bit of unwrapping excitement, home learning opportunities and fun to the minis lockdown experience. But the best deliveries have to be the new book days, don't they? ...