The sprawling park really comes into its own in summer with its trio of bathing ponds, 61-metre lido and children’s paddling pool.
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The cute cafe is the perfect place to relax with a coffee while you listen to French cafe music and people-watch out the window.
With the museum moving to an £83m new home and me giving birth to an 8.3lb baby, I was keen to find out how well we’d gel.
Should they need a break from climbing, sliding and mud-pie making, the pint-sized picnic huts offer the perfect place to refuel.
I was picturing a room full of sponges with a couple of people in costumes bouncing around helping the babies climb into buckets.
Hibou, in case you were wondering, is French for owl, while cuckoo is English for erm… cuckoo.
The store offers a monstrous selection of edibles, from salts made from tears to conserves made from bodily fluids.
The Corner House is less a play cafe and more a small, well-planned city in which to play, eat, drink, meet and learn.
Everything is so stylish it’s borderline ridiculous, plus I love kids’ shops with play areas, even if they’re too nice to use
What?: Seven-acre inner-city playground occupying the site of the former London Foundling Hospital. If you’ve ever been to the Foundling Museum you’ll already know the story of Captain Thomas Coram, the philanthropist who founded the hospital in 1739 to house and care for the countless abandoned children living on the capital’s streets
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