A few days ago, a failed geo-caching attempt led to a couple of hours of fun. Firstly we visited Cobb’s Engine House, we then investigated the rest of the Bumble Hole area. It always amazes me how an area so steeped in industrial history can now look so beautiful. The area was heavily mined during Continue reading →
Category Archives: The Tiny Three
Discovering Local History
The boys are on their Easter break from school and nursery, and after a couple of relaxing days spent indoors with Netflix, Lego and colouring on Wednesday afternoon we went on an adventure. Originally my plan was to go geocaching, as there are quite a few geocaches within walking distance of my house. However when Continue reading →
Sea Stars at The National Sealife Centre
Last weekend we visited the national Sealife Centre in Birmingham to see their new star attraction Sea Stars where you can get up close and personal with an eye catching array of star fish from around the globe. The species on show include Brittle Star, Chocolate Knobbed, Common Starfish, Red Knobbed and Sun-Star, which can Continue reading →
Amazing Children’s Educational Magazine Competition
A few weeks ago I attended Blog On Cymru in Cardiff, I had a night away without the family and obviously the tiny 3 missed me. They were ecstatic to see me on the Sunday morning but even more excited to see the goodie bag of things I had for them. One of the biggest Continue reading →
Waterbead Fun
For the past few days the tiny 3 have been intrigued by what is growing in the bowl of water. It looks a bit like frog spawn was JR’s explanation. On Thursday they found out what it was and they were extremely excited, because it was of course waterbeads. We had experimented with them back Continue reading →
Parragon book buddies – Max and Tallulah
Max and Tallulah is a really cute story about a zebra called Max who loves another zebra Tallulah. However Max is too shy to tell to tell her. He tries various different ways to get Tallulah to notice him, but things keep going wrong until Max decides the best way is to just be himself. Continue reading →
A Trip to Cinderella
On the Tuesday before Christmas we took the kids on a surprise day out to Leicester to watch their second pantomime of the year Cinderella at De Montfort Hall. The first pantomime they had been to was the recording of the Cbeebies pantomime Peter Pan which had only lasted around 45 minutes so held their attention Continue reading →
Elf School at Intu Merry Hill
Every year at Christmas I get lots of joy from taking the tiny 3 to see Santa. I love seeing the look of excitement on their faces and the utter delight they get from meeting him and being given a present by him before Christmas day. However I always despair at the cost of the visit Continue reading →
Ice Skating at Webbs of Wychbold.
Way back in February when we first visited The Eden Project in Cornwall, JR watched with enthusiasm the people who were ice skating at the rink. He really wanted to have a go, but it was a bit outside of our budget although I did promise him that I would take him one day. Well Continue reading →
A Cadbury World Xmas
Last Sunday me and Mr M&TTT were very excited to be able to give the tiny 3 a nice early christmas surprise, a trip to Cadbury Worlds christmas celebrations. Our 1st surprise for them was a visit to see the big man himself (no not mr cadbury) Santa claus. As we were there quite early Continue reading →
Tomy Disney 3-in-1 Musical Potty
For the last few months LA has been showing signs of wanting to start potty training, the arrival of a Minnie Mouse 3-in-1 musical potty has made this want greater. However we are still at the sit on it with a nappy on stage at least she is happy to sit on it. You are Continue reading →
Abney and Teal magazine ~ Review
The Tiny 3 were very excited this week when a copy of the new monthly magazine by publisher DJ Murphy The Adventures of Abney and Teal landed on our doorstep. They love the programme and watch it every night just before the Bedtime hour on cbeebies at 5.50pm. The magazine itself centres on the main characters two ragdoll Continue reading →
How To Train Your Dragon Jigsaw Set ~ Review
A couple of weeks ago we were sent a ‘How to train your dragon jigsaw set‘. The set consists of 3, 49 piece jigsaws in one box and also 3 mini posters. I have always loved jigsaws but I have struggled to get the boys interested in jigsaws and I always seem to end up Continue reading →
Tales of the Brave – A Thomas the Tank Engine Movie
Today after dropping JR at school for his 1st day back after the summer holidays, Me, Mr M&TTT, TP & LA headed off in the car to Drayton Manor theme park to watch a screening of the new Thomas the Tank Engine movie – Tales of the Brave.
Lollibop 2014 – Hatfield House
A few weeks ago now I started religiously entering any competition i could find to try to win tickets to Lollibop 2014,I think I would have ending up buying tickets anyway had I not won a family pass with The Boy and Me. I had read loads of reviews about it over the last couple of years Continue reading →