I am so excited to announce that our online booking system is now up and running. This blog post has two purposes - to explain how to use the system and to thank its sponsors. Play Learning Life CIC is a member of the Out of School Alliance, and earlier this year we entered its annual competition to win transaction-free online booking - and we won! Because we only run for a few weeks a year, it's never been economically viable to provide online booking, because it would cost

Is it me, or is the Six Weeks' Holidays about six weeks' shorter than it used to be in the olden days? Sure, we pottered off to Italy at the start of the school hols, but I still can't believe we only have three more days of 50DT this year (unless I can persuade the team to do a couple of days in October half term...). The main theme this summer has been water - once again falling from the sky, but mainly on our increasingly Heath Robinson-esque water slide, which now incorp

Sharp, pointy things are an integral part of a day at 50 Dangerous Things camp - whether it's a 'SausMallow'™ stick, a splinter

Easter 2018 was all about the brown, this year: Mud Chocolate Sticks Newts Nail polishes Dried insects Mud. Despite three dry days, the torrential downpours the previous week left our site looking like it was auditioning for Charlie and the Chocolate factory. Mud, mud, glorious mud. However, as always, our intrepid campers carried on regardless, and alongside creative dens, high level tree platforms, an inadvertent mud slide (sorry, Mrs O-J) and trying not to get accidental