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Toy heaven – where your teddies and train-sets are rehomed
If like me you are both amazed and appalled at the number of toys your children have accumulated over the years – but are loathe to bin them and cannot wait for summer to donate them to the school fair … Continue reading
Swallows and Amazons
Sitting in your arm chair in front of a log fire in a post Christmas haze, you may already be dreaming about the Summer ahead: running around bare-foot on a beach somewhere healthy and in top physical condition. As a … Continue reading
Not a Notting Hill Mum and Mr Darcy learn animation – in the style of Kubo and the Two Strings
To mark the release of Kubo and the two strings on DVD, the latest animation from Laika studios who made Coraline and Boxtrolls, we were invited to an animation workshop run by Chocolate Films in central London – which showed us … Continue reading
Here be Dragons
It’s odd how effectively something – or sometimes lots of things – can be hidden in plain sight. Take dragons, for example. You would have thought that it would be pretty easy to spot a fantastical creature like a dragon, … Continue reading
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Tagged City of London, dragon, FurReal, Suzannah Lipscomb, Torch, walking in London, walks
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Not a Notting Hill Mum abroad
Removing the hair braids from Amelie’s hair … a very visual ending of the carefree seven week Summer holidays. When I say “carefree seven week holidays” obviously I mean carefree for the kids. Not their poor mother (that’s me!) . My … Continue reading
Chinese Lanterns at Chiswick House
Triffid size flowers, flamingos at the water’s edge, giant squirrels, giraffes, pandas in a bamboo forest and a vast Chinese dragon – the display of illuminated lanterns at Chiswick House in West London is seemingly never-ending. This is the first Magical … Continue reading
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Christmas Carols at the Royal Albert hall
It’s not something I’ve done before – gone to a Carol concert that is not in a church. In the run up to Christmas there are always the candlelit Advent and Christmas carol services at St John’s in Notting Hill, … Continue reading
Top toys for 2015
There was definitely a retro theme at this year’s unveiling of which toys will be the best sellers this Christmas. Every year we spend around £300 on toys for each of our children and buy them 30 to 40 toys … Continue reading
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Tagged Dreamtoys 2015, Jigsaw, Lego, Star Wars, Thunderbirds, toys, Westbourne Grove
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Paper Planes – Film for Half Term
Paper Planes is a charming Australian film about an 11 year old’s fascination with flying, which leads him to enter the world of Paper Plane competitions. Dylan, played by Ed Oxenbould, is not having the best time – being bullied … Continue reading
Openhouse London
What a fantastic scheme Openhouse London is. More than 800 buildings and spaces of architectural interest are open to the public over one weekend each year – for free. They might be newly built or Victorian homes modernised by 21st … Continue reading
Arts and crafts at Leighton House
Fabulous afternoon at Leighton House in Holland Park. It’s an extraordinary house with a Moorish partially tiled interior and a fountain – inside! But today it was their first annual Summer Fete with a range of children’s crafts on offer: … Continue reading
