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MY SORT OF MINI ESSAY ABOUT WHY I THINK IT’S TIME TO MAKE SCHOOL MEALS FREE FOR ALL PUPILS IN ENGLAND I truly believe that it is time for ALL UK SCHOOL CHILDREN to have the option of free school meals if they wish – the rest of England needs …
A lot of fancier hotels with a large number of business-type users claim to be ‘child-friendly’ like the Hilton London Heathrow Airport – they’re pushing their family stays at the moment and they invited me and the kids to try them out for a night. IMPORTANT: This was a gifted …
Oh Aldi. I had your back throughout the whole caterpillar cake thing, as did so many parents up and down the land. How do you repay us for this support? By reducing the quality of your Mamia wipes to the extent where I am just about ready to cleanse my …
Aldi have announced that a number of their UK stores have joined the Too Good To Go app – this is a ‘food waste’ reduction service where you pay a set fee for a certain amount of surplus food from a range of local shops or eateries. It’s a simple-ish …
I wanted to reshare our trip on the GWR Night Riviera sleeper train from London Paddington to Penzance back in the summer of 2022. We did a two-night trip for Luke’s birthday, one night there, a day at Lands End (touristy as **** but he loves geography stuff) and then …
We recently stayed in a Thomas and Friends-themed bedroom at the Drayton Manor Hotel (situated next to the main theme park including Thomasland), and apart from the giant contraceptive bedroom ‘Thomas’ overlooking the main double bed, we had a pretty good stay. To be fair, there will be couples out …
This is well worth considering if you have kids who are a teeny bit obsessed with planes. There are often deals to be found at airport hotels in the UK, especially during quieter periods, and try and look for a room that is advertised with a ‘runway view’ (a quick …
This happened in 2017 when my daughter Emma was about 18 months old, and I used my ‘fake’ news page to pretend that she had been kicked out of a vegan child’s birthday party for turning up in a cow onesie. You can read the whole sorry tale below, but …
As the debate about Bounty Photographers on maternity wards has kicked off again this week, here are ten ways to stop getting hassled by them practically the second that your little chap or chapess enters the world via the ol’ noo noo. 1 – Switch baby for a honey badger If you can get …
YOU. CANNOT. CATCH. AUTISM. FROM. SOMEONE. THAT. ALREADY. HAS. AUTISM. While I am thinking of it, you can’t catch ADHD from someone who has ADHD. It is also impossible to catch spina bifida from someone who has spina bifida. Hold on a minute Simon, that’s just ridiculous – spina bifida …