Christmas in London 2020: things to do with kids

Looking for things to do with kids during the Summer holidays 2021? Click here for my latest post. Updated 19 December 2020 with Tier 3 openings and closures. Wondering what there is do in London with kids this covid Christmas? Many of London’s high profile Christmas events are cancelled, like Winter Wonderland. But with London remaining in Tier 2, there’s…

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Captain Flinn and the Dinosaur Pirates: Search for the Magic Cutlass

I decline a lot of theatre invites, but was too intrigued to pass up an invite to Les Petits Theatre’s latest show, Captain Flinn and the Dinosaur Pirates: Search for the Magic Cutlass. Museum Teen and I enjoyed a brilliant visit to madcap Alice’s Adventures Underground by parent company Les Enfant Terribles a few years back. This new offering has both…

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The Lost Thing at Royal Opera House

Despite having seen it, I still find it tricky to categorise The Lost Thing at Royal Opera House, the  part opera, part musical theatre, part contemporary dance by Candoco Dance Company. Based on the picture book by Shaun Tan, The Lost Thing tells the strange story of when bottle top collector Shaun (Joel Brown) finds a lost, bizarre creature on…

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Zog Live at Cadogan Hall – with 2020 tour dates

Updated November 2019 with 2020 tour dates Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s picture books are frequent fixtures in the Museum household, and Zog is one of our favourites. In the book, Zog is an accident-prone dragon at Madame Dragon’s school who is desperate to earn a gold star. He learns ‘all the things that dragons need to know’ – how…

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