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Barn Cottage provides the perfect rural retreat
By Junior on 22/11/2012 10:00:00
Go off the beaten track in Northumberland
.ruralretreats.co.uk.Read more...Endless entertainment at Ickworth House stately home hotelRetreat to a Cornish BeachAn English country house
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Party on down with the family at the Penha resort in Portugal
By Catherine Hudson on 07/12/2012 16:13:23
Six Senses Spa for mummy, an early round of golf for daddy and brilliant activities for the children children’s club, all at the Penha Portugal
restaurants from modern European to Japanese and Italian cuisine, and you’re guaranteed to return home feeling revived and refreshed.During the school holidays, Powder Byrne offer the PB crèche for babies, and Scalleywags for four- to eight-year-olds, with a
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How to savour the simple life
By Amanda Pauley on 07/12/2012 16:17:23
not to buy anything new - apart from food, medicine, toiletries, underwear, socks, and children's pyjamas. They weren't totally mad - their aim was to reduce clutter and waste in their homes, to simplify their lives and help the environment. One parent who
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Five ways to enjoy a walk in the woods
By Junior on 12/12/2012 15:38:00
Take a ramble through your local woodland with your child
that spending time in natural environments promotes a positive outlook.3 Be prepared At the start of the walk, hand out small paper bags for collecting twigs, seed heads and pebbles. You can make a visual map of the walk when you get home. Also take a picnic
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Four of the best books for parents
By Fiona McKim on 11/01/2013 16:38:44
Our monthly round-up of the best parenting, craft, art and recipe books
, pretty pastel-hued macaroons and delicate mille-feuille, the other, home of rich creamy cheesecake and pioneers of brownie, red velvet and cupcake trends. Keen bakers (and tasters) who find it rather difficult to decide between these two great sugar
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Land of Kids festival brightens up May bank holiday
By Sophie Westnedge on 24/04/2013 16:40:22
One-day family festival brings an array of curiosities for all the family to the streets of Dalston, London
exploding with flavor, complemented by a host of local bakehouses and home-made grub from London’s finest - so everyone should have lots of energy for the day's activities!Land of Kids takes place on 6th May, between 12pm and 7pm. It's suitable for children
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Joe Blogs heads for the heights at Go Ape
By Joe on 16/05/2013 14:46:00
Smart Boy About Town takes a tough challenge in the wild
by this, since she does tend to moan rather a lot when I come home from school with my trousers ripped to shreds… And I can never remember how it actually happened!).Anyway, this Go Ape malarky is soooo much FUN! It's a bit like I'm A Celebrity and you get
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Great adventures: camping
By Junior on 26/08/2011 12:09:27
There are few family bonding experiences as glorious as camping out, being at one with nature and sleeping (or not!) beneath the stars…
The most magical memory of camping I have sees me not far from my home on the Norfolk coast. We’re under canvas, staring up at the stars through the smoke flaps of a tipi. I can hear the sea crashing in the background and we’re cooking the samphire
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Rebecca Elliott on creating Zoo Girl
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 30/05/2011 19:18:08
Highly Commended in our Junior Design Awards category Picture Book Of The Year, author and illustrator Rebecca Elliott gives us the back story to her latest book, Zoo Girl
see. Also, there was so much going on in Zoo Girl – care homes, broken families, adoption and so on, that whenever I started to write a longer text to accompany the images it all got rather long-winded and functional and seemed to suck the life out
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Denmark: Land of plenty
By Junior on 30/08/2011 11:22:57
There’s more than mermaids, Vikings and Lego to this Scandinavian country. Something is rocking in the state of Denmark – and it involves fun for all the family
’re sure you can see the earth’s curve – “Buy a second home, buy a second home,” he would whisper with touching optimism.Three years ago, when we were struggling to book an interesting summer holiday in Spain, Lloyd suggested Denmark. This was based on a
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