Being Maddie's Dad

Category: Days Out

  • Lazy Town Live

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    Over the years we’ve seen a transition from “In the Night Garden” , to “Charlie & Lola” and “Peppa Pig” each holding the title of Maddie’s favourite TV program. She has avidly watched each episode many times over. Top of the current popularity charts are Lazy Town and Mickey Mouse’s playhouse. Some of these are…

  • Visit to the new Snow Centre

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    Well Hemel snow centre finally opened and having driven past the building site every day for the the last 18 months it was nice to see what they had achieved. Ok so they’ve built a nice looking indoor Ski slope which no matter how large they claim it to be is still too short to…

  • A trip to Bluebell Woods

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    Every year we go to Doxley wood in Ashridge which is a carpet of purple flowers at this time of year. A lovely place to go for a walk and now we’re getting some nice weather it’s also nice to be outside for a change.

  • Another visit to Gambados

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    Rapidly becoming one of her favourite haunts. Full of slides and kiddie friendly things to do. This ball pool is in the under 3’s section so it won’t be long before it’s technically off limits. Still it brings a massive smile to her face and one of the benefits is that she’s so tired afterwards…

  • Playtime

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    Out with with her cousins for the afternoon we paid another visit to one of her favourite places – a local childrens play centre with slides and bumper cars and other various activities. To say she was excited about going would be an understatement and by the time we went home she was exhausted.

  • Another First

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    Living as close to the station as we do and with London only 25 mins away I’m surprised we hadn’t done this before now. That is take a trip on a train with Maddie. After some initial scary moments (when some fast trains went past the platform) and some reassuring words we boarded a train…

  • First Trip to the Cinema

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    Having sat through Snow Dogs on DVD for the umpteenth time it had become quite apparent that Maddie was more than capable of sitting still for a whole film. It was with this in mind we went to a child friendly screening of Wall-e at the local multiplex – which by the way is quite…

  • Her Latest Obsession

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    Over the last few weeks everytime we go anywhere near escalators Maddie is obsessed with riding them up and down. (This was snapped in John Lewis today) More impressive is that she can even say “Escalator”! Maddie has been particularly good on outings lately always holding our hands, doing what she’s been told etc and…

  • Daredevil Girl

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    Another trip to Mead Open Farm just with Daddy. (Chance for Mummy to have a break). Maddie just loves these slides – even the really steep ones. Oh and we did also look at the animals but they were a definite second to the slides, sandpits and climbing frames.

  • Dad’s weekend

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    Mette was off on a spa weekend with the girls so it was left to me to look after Maddie (which was of course a doddle!) So we had the full on single Dad routine – went to parents paradise, (indoor playground for kids complete with slides, go karts, and 100’s of screaming kids). Maddie…