LAIKA presents Wildwood: The Exhibition at The Design Museum London

[Ad- gifted experience] Amelia is a big fan of Coraline, the first movie created by LAIKA, so we were both very excited to go to LAIKA presents Wildwood: The Exhibition at The Design Museum London. I work with the Roblox game Coraline, which has been having a lot of Wildwood updates, so I had actually seen the Wildwood movie several times, at several different stages of completion. Seeing the movie and then seeing the exhibition was truly a unique and fantastic experience!

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Palace Bowl Presents Jimmy Eat World

This year, we have really ramped up the amount of live music we have gone to see! A bit after seeing My Chemical Romance, Dann and I went along with Quang to see Palace Bowl Presents Jimmy Eat World, along with their supporting act Rise Against. They did also have Jay Som and The Get Up Kids playing, but we were most interested in Rise Against and Jimmy Eat World, so went along for only those.

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Spooky Frights at Halloween at Kew Gardens 2026

It’s nearly the end of October, but as we have all of the half term, we wanted to do another spooky trail. For our household, it’s super important to get out each day of the break, especially as all of us get a little wrapped into our phones and bored when inside all day. Kai had an evening out with his friends, so Amelia, Robin, Dann and I, along with Claire, went out to Halloween at Kew Gardens. We’ve previously been a few years back, but it had been quite some time!

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Hylands Fear Fest Extreme swaps ‘spooky’ for scares

When we recently visited Hylands Estate for their Fear Fest Spooky Trail we all had a great time. However, as the older two kids – Kai and Amelia – are both getting along into teen-hood they both said that they’d be interested in attending the 15+ Fear Fest Extreme event that takes place along the same trail but during the evening spot. As such, a few days later we found ourselves back there, myself, Kai and Amelia, for the spooky walk. Jupiter opted to skip this one, as she is not the biggest fan of fears and is very easily jumpscared.

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Meadow Croft German Market in Essex

Dann and I have previously visited a bunch of traditional German markets in Austria, which was such an amazing, fantastic experience. But, before we had gone to Austria, Dann loves going to the Meadow Croft German Market right here in Essex. We always go, every year without fail, and have previously taken Amelia but haven’t gone as a whole family. This year, we went along to change that.

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