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LWAT is 300 – An East London Epic
This is the 300th post on London With a Toddler. Can you Adam it? To celebrate, we decided to roam East London in search of not dodgy cockney rhyming slang, as demonstrated in the last sentence, but paddling pools, pigs … Continue reading →
Posted in Creating precious childhood memories or something (days out)
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Tagged animals, buses, East London, paddling pools, parks, playing tourist, sandpits, slides, trains
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Ilford on a Mission – 26/04/14
Reuben is back at school! After a nailbiting 10 weeks of pox, house move and holiday the boy is once more stuck in the system. And loving it. But this school is different to his last one – they wear … Continue reading →
Posted in Just wandering...., Uncategorized
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Tagged cafes, cake, East London, parks, shopping, slides
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Plaza Park – 19/04/14
We like to be the first to try things out. We got into the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as soon as it opened – albeit unintentionally – and I get annoyed if we’re late to the party on London-y, toddler-y … Continue reading →
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Tagged cake, East London, parks, playground, slides, swings
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Coram’s Fields Needs Your Help!
While I was at Coram’s the other day with C’sMum, I noticed that they were running an appeal for funds. In case you didn’t know, Coram’s Fields is a private charity, not a publicly funded park, yet it flings … Continue reading →
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Tagged Central London, parks, slides
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East Greenwich Pleasaunce – 05/10/13
You wouldn’t think that eating cake and drinking coffee in pursuit of London’s Most Toddler-Friendly Cafe would cause any aggro, would you? Well, it hasn’t really, but after I visited Dulwich Park Cafe with Maria I did get some “feedback” … Continue reading →
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Tagged cafe, coffee, parks, playgrounds, slides, swings, Toddler-Friendly Cafe Awards
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Dulwich Park – 27/09/13
The first time we visited Dulwich Park it didn’t go well. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but here goes with a tale of what is possibly Nathan’s worst birthday ever. The year was 2004. The birthday was … Continue reading →
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Tagged animals, cafes, coffee, ice-cream, nature (really?!), parks, playgrounds, slides, South London, swings, Toddler-Friendly Cafe Awards
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The Dish and the Spoon -20/09/13
Once again I’m blogging to you from the hour beyond midnight, where I’ve given up on any immediate sleepy notions and plonked my toddler in front of some strange gibbering creatures. And by a remarkable coincidence, a strange gibbering creature … Continue reading →
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Tagged cafes, cake, coffee, music, parks, playground, slides, swings, Toddler-Friendly Cafe Awards
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Wanstead Village Fete – 15/09/13
It’s taken me a few days to get round to writing this up, but thanks to Eva we’re no longer doing that sleep thing that everyone goes on about. So it’s nearly 1AM and I am updating you on our … Continue reading →
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Tagged East London, fete, ice-cream, parks, playgrounds, slides, ukelele
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Hilly Fields – 28/08/13
You may already know this from the Facebook page, but yesterday, we made the epic trip from SE11 to SE12. It wasn’t as easy as it sounded. As any London geek knows, postcodes are ordered alphabetically rather than geographically, so … Continue reading →
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Tagged ice-cream, parks, sandpits, slides, South London, swings, water play
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An Afternoon in Brixton
So let me tell you a story, all about my day. It’ll have some interesting bits, honest. We’ve been in rural Hampshire for a week, so decided to go for maximum contrast by spending our first day back in Brixton. … Continue reading →
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Tagged cinema, ice-cream, parks, playground, seesaw, slides, South London, swings
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