Clifton Life

Clifton Life celebrates the best of local living. Published every three weeks, it includes the very latest on property, arts, dining and shopping, in Clifton and surrounding areas.

THIS MONTH in clifton

Issue 75 of Clifton Life out NOW

Festival season

Usually if anyone tries to tell me that ‘school days are the best days of your life’ I would reply they can’t have much of a life, but if there’s one thing that makes me envious of children it’s the summer holidays.

My summer holiday so far has consisted of five days at a mercifully unrainy Glastonbury, where I spent the Sunday practising my circus skills in the kids’ field. Now it’s back to work for me but the kids, for want of a field full of circus tents, fairground rides and festival types in wacky clothing, will need entertaining. With this in mind we’ve put together our second Clifton Life Kids’ Guide, which offers plenty of suggestions for days out, clubs, activities and yet more festivals, something Bristol is particularly good at, even if they can’t quite boast a headline act of a controversial US rapper, or The Wurzels, come to that.

This issue is also suitably family-friendly, with a main feature on Clevedon and what child doesn’t like to be beside the seaside? Deri Robins then takes her 10-year-old daughter Nell to a jewellery-making class at the Shiney Company, Julia Brigdale advises how to introduce children to gardening and there’s also a chance to win a year’s family membership to one of the city’s top family attractions, Explore-At-Bristol.

Glastonbury might be over, but there are plenty of festivals to come, and there might even be some of you who actually enjoy sleeping on a slither of foam under a few square foot of nylon, surviving on a just-add-water diet, without the lure of seeing your favourite band at the end of it – so this issue’s Editor’s Choice has everything you need survive the great outdoors.

Our cover property, meanwhile, is one that every family will adore – and the stuff of dreams for tent-dwellers. Happy camping!