May 23, 2013

Garden Games – Getting Your Children to Play Outside

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    Most parents are keen to find ways of encouraging their children to move away from the television and get some fresh air and exercise playing games in the garden. It might be time to invest in some outside games for your children, just in time for summer. Time for Croquet To keep your [...]

How to save enough for a holiday by summer 2013

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    The summer is coming; the daffodils have shaken off the snow and flowering into bloom.  The sound of lawn mowers fills the air and complaints of hay fever are started to be whispered in the playground.  Fast on the heels of summer are the six week holidays, where parents of large and small [...]

The Wild Weather Book Review

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  We’ve all had those days where we would like to go out but the weather has been so horrible we’ve had to put it off. Not because of the weather, maybe just because there was nowhere that we could go that we would still be able to have fun at even though it was [...]

Making the most of summer fun in the garden

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    This year’s delayed summer has resulted in a bunch of restless children who have been cooped up for far too long desperately needing to stretch their legs and burn off some of that pent up energy. The garden turns into a hive of activity with dens being built, competitiveness takes on a whole [...]