and fun craft activities, plus circus skills. There’s also 11 acres of gardens to explore – look out for the resident peacocks and macaws –  and an adventure playground.Added extras Take part in the carnival procession, 150 free workshops, theatre

in Four Weddings And A Funeral. There’s ample space among the spectacular grounds – designed by renowned landscape gardener Lancelot “Capability” Brown – for children to explore, seeking out the pet cemetery and stepping stones of the Secret Garden, while

the smiling waiter gave him a Barbie designer activity kit – clearly he wasn’t quite so in tune with the psyche of the four-year-old boys as Zap.The staff are super-attentive, and the Sunday offering is clearly popular, as there was a lively buzzing atmosphere

and activities, music, dance and arts and crafts sessions, plus circus and performance skills. The Roald Dahl Museum will also be providing activities. Added extras Try out the Headphone Disco from 11pm–3am in the Big Top while your babies snooze in the quiet

in the sand. Or are the days more likely to consist of a relentless rounds of organised days out, rushing from one activity to the next, with back-to-back routines, schedules and timetables? If your answer is the latter, maybe it’s time to take stock, take a

The Park, Vicarage Farm, Woodmancott, Winchester, Hampshire  The Original Cornbury Festival July 1–3 The Great Tew Park, Oxfordshire  Larmer Tree Festival July 13–17 Larmer Tree Gardens, Tollard Royal, near Salisbury, Wiltshire Latitude July 14

and activities for children, as well as circus skills workshops and jazzy light shows. A highlight for children is the fancy-dress night on Saturday.Meadowlands,Glynde Place, East SussexJune 1–3 A weekend of cultural carnivalesque celebrations, jam

was the very heart of the house. From about five or six years, my siblings and I were already helping our father in the garden. We were five children and we didn’t have much money, so the garden was very important; it was the garden that produced our food

of Lulworth Cove in Dorset. The ambiance is party-party anything goes, with the highlight of the Saturday being a fancy-dress pararde throughout the Kid’s Garden and Circus Field. Of course, there’s the extensive programme of bands on various stages (last year

to have spacious enough accommodation to be able to relax, with a ‘parent area’ and a ‘kids area’ being the ideal. Other children or teenagers to play with and plenty of fun activities in a safe environment make for happy kids and when the children