destination. 2. Allow plenty of time at the airport to avoid a stressful start to your holiday.3. Buy a Trunkis – a fabulous invention for children who love to feel grown up with their own bits and pieces tucked away and frees up space in your own hand luggage!What

It may be named Small Hall, but actually the stately ancestral home of Paul and Sally Small is huge – rather more Versailles than compact and bijou! In keeping with the lavish landscape, the majestic home also plays host to the annual Small Hall

), and takes care of the family. Overall, there’s a Royal Tennanbaums feels about the family. Mrs Shrimpton is part Anne Bancroft, part Angelica Huston in Chanel suits.And what about the children? The inspiration for the big sister Penelope is Jean Shrimpton

with the most welcoming of toys (discarded or donated) and children who just can't get enough play. But all is not what it seems: our cast of toys soon realise they have been consigned to the toddlers' room where unruliness rules and the idea of “age

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

WHAT JOLLY LARKS it always looks like Johnny Depp has when he dons the black eyeliner and dreadlocks that have become his trademark as Captain Jack Sparrow. On Stranger Tides, the fourth film of the pirate extravaganzas, opens all

the whole time? Reading Hello? Shouting at my children? Or is she running around with them playing hide-and-seek, giving them lots of hugs and kisses and generally looking like the next best thing to Mary Poppins?But if I'm grassing up your nanny, how can I

What would be your perfect family dinner? Something simple in the garden, so there was a chance to play. Maybe a butterflied leg of lamb on the barbecue, and chocolate hazelnut crunch ice cream for pudding.What are the best recipes for weaning a

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

to my back. But the punishment was completely counterproductive as it was actually the first time I got accepted in school as the children loved my drawings. I was not good at sports. I didn’t play football, but I could draw and that was how I