I’ve learnt the hard, breaking-my-neck-tripping-over-the-crap way that less is more where kids’ stuff is concerned.
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Sarah Bruegger is a freelance Digital Content Consultant and founder of local parents’ events series East Sleep Repeat. She has lived in Hackney for more than five years and has a 10-month-old daughter called Ella.
This place is gimmicky as hell, but the nostalgia is real, and so, so comforting.
Megan Rossiter is a hypnobirthing teacher and student midwife. She has lived in Thames Ditton for a year and in Surrey for five, and has a 14-month-old son called Otis.
The coolest things to do with your littlest Londoners, from catching the latest releases together to getting pissed together (…sort of).
Very few things have the ability to get us out the house at 8am on a Sunday, but this definitely just made the list.
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.
I know I have a tendency to over-romanticise when I really like something but seriously, this place has absolutely ruined us.
Resolve to have an exciting 2018 with family aerial classes, offbeat kids’ theatre and spectacular light shows to enchant young and old.
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.
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