You don’t have to be crazy about the iconic brick brand to love Legoland, but it helps. The best thing about the theme park – apart from the ubiquitous bricks themselves, which you’ll find at every corner, and the eye-boggling array of memorabilia at the Big Shop – is the excelle...

 I’ve heard there’s a new ‘nanny spy’ service available. Anything to do with MI6?No – nothing to do with us Brits. This one’s happening across the pond in the US of A. New York to be precise. Where else? So it’s the CIA then? Nope, wrong again. You, the innocent passerby are the ...

and sometime night club promoter – the boy hasn’t done too badly. Famed for his stunning furniture and lighting design, including the pylon chair for Italian company Cappellini in 1991, and funky lighting like the jack lamp for Eurolounge, Dixon rose

part of the eye) is not a regular symmetrical spherical shape, but elongated. This means the eye cannot focus light passing through it, so vision is blurred at all distances. This can be corrected with glasses.4. Amblyopia (lazy eye) This occurs when

Stormy Weather by Debi Gliori Bloomsbury, £10.99, 2+Mummy Fox is about to put her cub to bed: “Pull up the quilt, turn out the light, dear child, it’s time to say goodnight.” To put his mind at rest before sleeping, she tells him about all the other

small domestic world through a little circular cut-out on the page, before the full scene – a cosy kitchen, a visit to the park, the soft light of bedtime –is revealed overleaf. Set in the early Forties, it’s an unpretentious vision of a baby’s contented

Glow-sticks at the ready, it's time for the lights to go down and the greatest show on Earth to begin. Yes, Zippo's Circus is rolling into town, with their new high-energy family show, GOLD. Hosted by veteran ringmaster, Norman Barrett, MBE

crazies, Charlie shines like a beacon of sanity, good sense and normality.* When compared to the gross greed of spoilt brat, Verruca Salt, anyone can appear in a good light...Charlie And The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl is published by Puffin.  

Photography: Catherine Gratwicke @ Ryland Peters & SmallIf you ever yearn for a candy-coloured life where everything – including the glorious interiors of your home – is all sweetness and light, then you might enjoy the Pretty Pastel Style book

, breadcrumbs and eggs – for a finer texture use a blender. Form into small meatballs and roll in the flour coating them lightly. Fry in hot shallow vegetable oil over moderate heat until nicely browned all over. Drain on kitchen paper and serve hot