the toddler review

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The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch @ Henley Fringe Festival

A two man show starring Daniel Creasey as Mr Grinling and Yvie Magee as his wife (supported by violinist Carole Carpenter and a host of fantastic puppets), The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch follows the story of an always hungry Lighthouse Keeper and his wife’s attempts to stop seagulls from eating his lunch.

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Camp Bestival @ Lulworth Castle (30 July - 1 August 2010)

Combining music with talks, dance, circus, fairground, theatre, extreme sports, art, fancy dress and what can safely be called the best festival food we’ve chowed, Camp Bestival is very obviously created with a certain type of family in mind…

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The Toddler’s Summer Top Five (and one for luck)

It’s a bit difficult to tell whether it’s summer or not here at TTR Towers. The paddling pool’s out but it’s full of rain water, we’re wearing short shorts but they’re accompanied by Bob the Builder wellies. Rain or shine, these are the events we’ll be donning our IdaT raincoats for..

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Exmoor Falconry Centre, Somerset

When Lillie decided that she was going to become an equestrian champion there was little likelihood that she could control a thoroughbred show jumper…

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Four Seasons Holiday Home, West Wales

One house in deepest rural Wales, three couples, five children under five. For a week. In March. Luke’s Mummy thanks God for the perfect group holiday home…

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Christmas With The Kids: UK

We count down our very favourite-ist events for all the family all over the UK. From cinema to meeting Santa, skiing to Christmas carolling, wherever you are there’s something to keepthe kids amused while they wait for the visit from the big man…

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Christmas With The Kids: London

The Toddler Review round up of the best festive events for children in London, including Santa Claus, Snowmen and the chance to win a family ticket to see the Chinese State Circus’s incredible Mulan featuring the Shaolin Warriors.

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Skoda Yeti

There’s no point in me trying to give you a Top Gear style review of the Yeti - I don’t know anything about fuel consumption and top speeds and rear suspension and roll bars…but it certainly goes in the new Yeti’s favour that even before I found out about it’s mystical self-parking powers I had decided I wanted one for myself…

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Baby Aid First Aid Kit

We need more than a couple of plasters and a bottle of Calpol in our medical stash. Cue the Baby Aid First Aid Kit which contains a little bit of everything you need to tend cuts, grazes and burns all in a little oil cloth bag which looks jolly nice on the bathroom side or in the camping kit…

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Longleat Safari Park

Take one two toddlers, two grandparents and one mummy, put them in a car and send them in to a lion enclosure. What do you get? Excitement over tractors of course. That’s right folks, the world’s biggest and best beasts can’t even pull Ted out of his tractor obsession. Not when you learn that Longleat uses a ‘buuu track-tooor’ to feed the rhinos.

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