Lil’ Zelfs, series 5 of the Zelf world, have just launched and are as fabulous and more so than all that have gone before it! My children think they’re great, in any colour, and both of them play super imaginative games with them! For Florence it’s all about the hair and Jimmy just likes having a funny little creature in his pocket, either way, they’re besotted! We were sent two Zelfs from the new series and to Florence’s delight they […]
I’ve just turned 36 (oh my) and yet even to this very day I have to borrow from the bank of Mum and Dad sometimes! It’s a bit embarrassing but in this day and age it’s nigh on impossible to get on the property ladder without some sort of footballer type wage or lottery win and I’m forever grateful to our parents for lending/giving us money when we embarked on that first rung. It wasn’t so much that we didn’t […]
Punchdrunk are well known for not just offering a theatre experience but rather more than that with their productions making them interactive pieces the audience are thoroughly involved in. They call it ‘immersive theatre’ where they offer freedom to explore the imaginative world of one of their shows. Interestingly they work with adult theatre mostly but with their latest production they have invited children over the age of six to come and experience the Punchdrunk magic and with their production of […]
I’m too young (not something I find myself saying often) to say that I remember The Clangers from their first time around but even though the show stopped broadcasting in 1974 (I wasn’t born until 1979), I still knew exactly who they were. When I was a child it was way before the likes of YouTube and personal tablets so unlike Florence, who watches old shows from my youth on her iPad, I didn’t actually get to see them at […]
I love the film ‘Sliding Doors’ which portrays life changing on the basis of what has or hasn’t gone before it? If we do something one way would the end result be different or the same? Fate or just one moment in time altering the course of destiny forever? Another film, one which I could watch over and over, has a similar concept when it comes to moments in time changing everything forever. ‘One Day’, which was Richard Curtis’s last […]
