Children's Fairyland turns 60

The storybook theme park in Oakland is older than Disneyland.

Let them eat cake

A buttery birthday cake with deep dark chocolate flavors, a collection of golden cupcakes frosted with snowy icing - if these little pleasures make your day, follow the recipes with Pauline D Loh.

Climate camp v RBS

On the front line of the eco-war. Why does the revolution have to involve so much crap? I'm talking literally. When I arrive at Climate Camp after a six-hour journey by train, bus and a half-hour cross-country hike to the Edinburgh parkland headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland, I plonk down my bags and ask if I might use the facilities.

Frog ponds and other childhood delicacies

A few weeks ago, my younger daughters had a party to celebrate their ninth birthdays. I made pizza and fairy bread and sausie rolls and vegie puffs and fruit and lolly kebabs and meringues and frog ponds. Scooped out oranges, orange jelly made with the juice, multi-coloured sprinkles, spearmint leaves and Freddo Frogs on top. [...]

Brunch on the Bridge in Portland celebrates Hawthorne's 100th, turns center lanes into urban oasis

More than 1,000 people enjoy the first-ever chance to lie on the grass in the middle of the venerable bridge