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Tell me more, tell me more...

2008-07-24T19:52:00.004+01:00

OK so the kids are off and we need to find things to do pronto. Fortunately we live in London and one glance at LondonKidz web site will show how lucky we are. Where else can our kids learn film making or be trained in a musical Grease, try multi-sports, even try to find those real dark knights and we have put together a listings page of many other worthy events . It is truly fantastic the variety and I am going to make sure my kids take advantage of it as soon as we are back from the traditional British sea-side holiday on the Isle of Wight (break out the waterproofs) where we intend to find dinosaur bones (I have promised we will). Our next newsletter is going out on Saturday 26th July so please sign up if you haven't already and we will literally keep you posted.

London Mini Games need to sack the PR company

2008-07-05T13:15:00.001+01:00

London Mini Games sounds like a first rate idea. An Olympic type competition amongst London's children to encourage and publicise sport in the capital. Not to mention promoting both the immediate participation of our finest in China and the not so immediate but hugely important 2012 games in our own fair city. But who knows anything about it? Maybe my own nearest boroughs Islington and City of London just didn't get it.

Or maybe the organising body was short of a promotional budget. We featured it on LondonKidz and link to the official web site but that's where the trail goes cold. The site then tells you to link to local government sites and the nearest I got to London Youth Games activities on Islington and CoL websites were stories about the tragic knife murder of a teenager and what the Youth Offending Team is up to in COL. Although why they have a team to go around offending Youths is beyond me although can see it being popular with the residents at the Barbican.

Anyway it just seems to me that we are strong on great ideas in London and poor on execution. My eldest millstone did take part in the "mini swimming" he is 10 and his school got a fax asking him to report to get on a coach three days later at 0730 in the morning. He broke down under interrogation the evening after the event and said he'd been somewhere in Kent and had really enjoyed it.

Soft Play Heaven and Hell

2008-06-28T21:29:00.000+01:00

OK... it was my (now) 6 year old daughter's birthday party today. 18 class mates, a soft play centre in Stoke Newington, jelly and ice cream. These parties are only two hours but seem like four. They scream, they run riot, they fall out, they fall in... they scream some more. They are children. It is parent hell. I know what you're thinking... serves you right for lack of imagination. That is a charge that can be levelled at me on many occasions except not this one. It was requested by my daughter, who absolutely loved it, as did all her invitees who left tired but shouting her name and in great spirits. So it was child heaven... and the place... ZoomAround in N16. Job done.

London Wetlands Centre

2008-06-23T18:07:00.000+01:00

In the middle of last week I visited Ascot as a guest of an old friend of mine who runs a software company. Not really one for being corporately entertained I went just becuase I hadn't seen him in donkey's (no pun intended) years. As I was returning to London by train a few pounds better off (it was an excellent lunch) we passed through Barnes station which is home to the wetlands Centre. This has an international reputation and we are currently featuring their summer programme of events on Londonkidz. I would be very interested in any coments people who have visited the Wetlands may have.

London for Kids

2008-06-20T20:00:00.000+01:00

Hi there Londonkidz.co.uk is our website about things to for kids in London. It has news about events and a searchable (which of them isn't) directory of venues and places. The team at Londonkidz includes myself and a number of very dedicated technical and editorial types who work tirelessly to bring you news on a wide variety of events from the internationally aclaimed to the very local . I have started this blog as another outlet for informing anyone who will listen about these activities and also to see what you would like to say. Londonkidz has an increasingly loyal and growing usage and our newsletter attracts thousands of subscribers. So whether it is feedback on the events we mention or about the site itself... pleeeease tell us what you think.

Mike