Category: review
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A Day Out With Darwin
Last week was half term. Much needed by everyone. We had a fairly chilled out break, mostly hanging around in our local park, but we did decide to do a proper outing one day. I say outing, but this wasn’t just a fun day for the kids. We visited Down House, the home of Charles […]
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Welcome To The New Southwarkbelle
Notice anything different? Well if I’ve managed to do this properly then southwarkbelle.com will now bring you here, my new WordPress blog. I decided it was time to try swapping over as WordPress is easily the main platform for blogs now and I need to use it for my reviews over on Festivalkidz.com. So it’s […]
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The Best Mothers Day Gift
Bring Your Own Mum Night with NotOnTheHightStreet #BYOM This is my Mum, and a glass a fizz. Sadly a bit of a rare sight around here, Mum that is, not the booze (ok, no, that sounds bad). My Mum lives in deepest darkest Devonshire. I (and the clue’s in the name here) am in South London. […]
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Canada Water Culture Space
It’s all been a little bit serious on the blog of late – so here is something more fun. A lot more fun actually. I have a soft spot for Canada Water. It’s where F and I first shared a flat. A studio so tiny that I had to put most of my belongings into […]
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Book Review: Expecting Better
Economics professor Emily Oster got pregnant, then she got very annoyed, and then she wrote a book about it. The result is Expecting Better. A pregnancy book which, refreshingly, expects it’s reader to still have a functioning brain. Society has (mostly) moved on from treating all women as stupid, or at least doing so openly […]
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Review: Sea Life London Aquarium
I grew up on David Attenborough documentaries, bug hunts and trips to the safari park. I suspect that’s where my interest in science was originally sparked, and I really hope my girls will come to share this fascination with the natural world. Sadly I’ve heard a few people say that London kids must find all […]
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The Horniman Museum
Adventures were needed yesterday! Last week we were stuck indoors for the whole of Monday, but with gorgeous winter sunshine and a strong desire to avoid that much mess* again it was time for an outing. There are lots of good places to explore with a toddler in South London and one of our favourite […]
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Morris Lessmore and the Techno Toddler
It’s not like my life is short on technology, at work I operate machines that cost more than our house, and my communications with my husband are roughly 80% virtual on week days, but I have been slightly hankering after an ipad for a while and after hearing a few people say they were great […]
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