for young children. So the perfect introduction is Little People’s Tea from My Cup Of Tea. The Strawberry Cream flavoured tea is made of dry hibiscus, rose hip and apple, and is caffeine free. In a special introductory pack, children can join the adventures

riding on the stunning beach and kite flying.Budding golfers can head to the Colin Montgomerie Links Golf Academy for a three-day junior school. Families will love the Little Turnberry Farm where children get to be farmer for the day feeding donkeys

A playground classic for children of every generation, skipping games are active, fun and require little more than some rope or elastic, and a lively imagination. Here, author, Katie Hewett remembers the skipping games of her childhood:(Skipping was

in it. And it’s all about the timing. Cook for too short a time, and it’s not ready. Do too much, and it’s burnt.Everyone in the Jamaica sings or DJs. I don’t know anyone from the Caribbean who doesn’t sing, even just a little bit. For Caribbean people

City at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Ditsy Little Cup CakesAugust 27Little ladies and gents can take inspiration from a tea-set exhibition at the Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh and create their own delectable plates of cakes from paper

on the throats of goats and a fabulous robe gifted by the ruler of Kashgar to British tea planter and explorer Robert Shaw. Family X-Factor The museum’s unfusty feel will make little historians feel right at home  and there’s a variety of gallery trails

place throughout May Day and thousands of people come to see the two Hobby Horses The Old Oss and the Blue Ribbon Oss.4 Go huntingOn Easter Day each year kit out your children in explorer outfits (safari hats and binoculars) or Sherlock Holmes

flagship store at rue de Tournon, where you can indulge in afternoon tea in the pretty courtyard garden. We also stopped in at one of Paris’s best-kept fashion secrets: the Little Fashion Gallery studio. Here, owner Marie Soudré-Richard has cherry-picked a

, though she was never very friendly towards people, she and Percy got on very well and would happily spend their days grooming each other. I think the two little birds at the start of Birdsong might be my budgies, as they become very friendly in the book

meant all the family could sit together. Then our two-and-a-half hour transfer to our resort in Zürs was made a whole lot more comfortable when a cheery rep showed us the way to a people carrier for our family’s exclusive use. This was a joyous moment