The drop slide is closed for these sessions so you don’t have to worry about your child trying to coax you onto it and paralysing you in the process.
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I know I have a tendency to over-romanticise when I really like something but seriously, this place has absolutely ruined us.
I’ll spare you the suspense: A Fine Mess is really very messy. There is paint, and flour, and brown Play-Doh that looks like turds.
Bab was in such a grump Peppa Pig could have turned up with a mobile sweet shop and told her to help herself and she still wouldn’t have been in the mood.
This is as family-friendly as exhibits come with its interactive design and costumes you can’t resist dressing your little Christopher Robin up in.
Now we’ve sampled the Dorchester of playgroups a morning at Tumble Tots doesn’t have quite the same allure.
Quite frankly this exhibition could have been themed around soiled nappies and we’d probably still go along for a look.
Unlike other parent-focused cafes, 36 falls more into the category of ‘coffee shop with a play area’ than ‘play cafe’.
There’s something so ridiculously wholesome and Borrowers-y about this place you can’t help but be enchanted.
I was initially dispirited by the floor cushions that had been laid out in a semicircle out of snack-slinging distance of the host.
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