Mansfield Museum wins Guardian’s UK Most Family Friendly Title

Mansfield Museum, a tiny small affair with just 8 staff and a comparitively small budget has won a national competition for being The Guardian’s Most Family Friendly Museum and here at Chez Beaufoix we are so excited and pleased and proud. Misses E and M have been regulars at the museum from a very young age.  I [...]

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I want to be in that number

As some of you might know my daughters go to a church school.  It’s the school my brothers went to, the school my Mum taught at, and the school attached to the church in which I was confirmed and married.  (Confirmed as a Catholic, not, you know as a human being, or a pigeon or [...]

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Proud Mummy moment and someone worth a visit

Miss E arrived home from school on Friday and handed me a crumpled piece of paper. Her eyes shone with nervous excitement and her head was high, her smile the tightly pursed lips of a child bursting to tell, but wanting desperately for me to discover instead of be told. I looked down at the white page [...]

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