Dinovember!

I absolutely love this and am totally going to steal it for my boys when they're old enough.

The family has posted lots more photos/ideas here.

Punch and Judy puppet show

... Paris, 1950s

50 dangerous things ....

When posting yesterday's images, I remembered how impressed I was to learn about Gever Tulley's Tinkering School some time ago ... what a great institution!

Tulley has written a book called '50 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do', and he talks briefly about a few of them, as well as his tinkering school, in this entertaining little talk.

Lenore Skenazy also pleads for a return to common sense. In her blog, Free Range Kids, she highlights the craziness of hysterical 'health and safety concerns' which really only serve to deaden experience and create a society of individuals who are incapable of acting independently, making responsible decisions, or simply having fun.

Did you have a free range childhood?

Eat your heart out, Mr Health & Safety!

Hello little blog ... long time no see! (well, it feels that way even though it's only been a week I guess). We're camping out at my sister's flat for a while during some renovations at our house and my days have been very busy lately ....

I'm feeling rather nostalgic today so here are some images from a more innocent age, when childhood was allowed to be fun:

(from When I Were A Lad: Snapshots From A Time That Health And Safety Forgot, by Andrew Davies, via the Mail Online)