#30DaysWild Day 5 – A Busy Day For Birds

Have you been doing the Bookstart Bird Boogie this week? The chosen book for this year’s National Bookstart Week (June 4th-10th) is A Busy Day for Birds by Lucy Cousins and we picked one up this morning at a Children’s Centre group. Similar to last...

#30DaysWild Day 4 – #LincsHour

This evening our county’s weekly Twitter hour saw our discussion focus on this week’s World Environment Day (June 5th) and World Oceans Day (June 8th) and it’s #PassOnPlastic campaign. Clearly the environment is a subject that many...

#30DaysWild Day 3 – Sunflowers

Earlier in the week we visited The Willows near Glentham to pick up some sunflower seeds. The garden centre was giving them out to competitive families vying to grow the tallest flower as part of National Children’s Garden Week (May 26th – June 3rd, 2018)....

#30DaysWild Day 2 – Whisby Nature Park

From courting as teenagers to taking our mini ones to run off some of their seemingly endless energy, Whisby Nature Park has been one of our favourite places to visit for many years. Managed by Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, the park was created by quarrying for sand...

#30DaysWild Day 1 – Vegetable planting

This is the third year I’ve taken part in the Wildlife Trusts 30 Days Wild initiative but yet again June has crept up all too quickly on me and my best laid plans haven’t even actually been laid so I’m taking the call to enact a month of...

The destination for your imagination this July

The fantastical tales we read as children often stay very real within our imaginations but isn’t it fabulous when they sometimes take actual 3D form too? Newark Book Festival 2018 (July 13th-15th) will see knights, bookworms, the Gruffalo, very, very, very long...

Peppa Pig Live!

Peppa Pig and her friends are bringing their new live show to Lincoln next month. Appearing at the New Theatre Royal, the celebrity sow will be starring in Peppa Pig’s Adventure on June 13th and 14th, 2018. Children’s theatre team Fiery Light promise there...

Charity begins at nursery

Did you feel the world wobble last month? We assured Willow that her and her fellow nursery-goers’ efforts to jellify the planet reached at least as far as where we were in the city. The pre-schoolers were jumping, twirling, wobbling, bouncing and more all in...

What the ladybird wore

The wintry weather experienced in the UK at the beginning of March threatened to make Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman the most popular costume for this year’s World Book Day celebrations. However, the depth of the white stuff meant schools and nurseries were...