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I love History and my favourite period of time has always been Tudor England and predominately Henry VIII and his six wives.
Back in 2017, SIX the Musical launched at the Edinburgh Festival to rave reviews and has since won 26 major international awards.
We were booked in to see SIX…
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This October half term we visited Paultons Park to experience their halloween fun.
My three are now 15, 12 and 10 so the days of Peppa Pig World are way behind them now, but Paultons Park has so much to offer older families these days.
I have to say that Paultons…
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We love October for its beautiful change of colours, scrunching through leaves and choosing our favourite pumpkins from a local pumpkin patch.
I previous years we have researched the best places to pick pumpkins around Bournemouth and Poole and this year we were keen to try somewhere different.
We decided to…
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As a family, we like to get outside and explore and one of our new favourite places to visit is Hurst Castle in the New Forest.
Hurst Castle is an artillery fort established by Henry VIII on the Hurst Spit in Hampshire and there are two ways of reaching the…
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The National Motor Museum in Beaulieu is one of our families favourite days out, because it is packed full of things for the whole family to enjoy.
The magic of Beaulieu is that it’s not just cars, although that is a big part of a day there.
Beaulieu is a picturesque…
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Last night we were invited to Bournemouth Pavilion for the opening night of The Bodyguard, which is in Bournemouth until Saturday 12th August, before it continues touring the UK until January 2024.
I remember seeing The Bodyguard film at the cinema when it first came out and it has stayed…
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This weekend we were invited to review AirJumpX, a brand new super-sized inflatable obstacle course at the Sir David English Sports Centre in Bournemouth.
This massive inflatable, which fills the sports hall, is packed with interactive challenges and thrills.
AirJumpX features include climbs, jumps and tumbles, parkour-style sections, a slam dunk,…
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This is our tenth year at Camp Bestival and are now seasoned festival campers. Our packing list has evolved as technology changes and the kids get older, but it is essentially still the same.
Camp Bestival is held at Lulworth, a spectacular site in the heart of Dorset which is…
Are we nearly there yet? is a new online blog run by me, Kara Guppy, and is named as such thanks to my daughter Eliza who always asks that very question when we are less than 5 minutes up the road heading off on our adventures. You may know me from my other family blog chelseamamma.co.uk
