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Colette Burgess - family lifestyle and travel blogger based in Manchester

Have a little nose around and see where else I’ve featured:

January 2026: Top 10 UK Family Travel Bloggers to Inspire

January 2026: SME Best of the British Getaways awards (Best Family Lifestyle & Travel Blog 2025 – Northern England and Authentic Family Adventure Storytelling Excellence Award 2025 – North West England)

October 2025: The Daily Express: Top 30 nostalgic British dishes with Red Tractor

October 2024: Top 25 UK Family Lifestyle Blogs (ranked 11th)

March 2024: Top 30 UK Family Lifestyle Blogs (ranked 9th)

February 2024: BBC Local Radio: Late Night Becky show talking about how Dave & I met!

August 2023: Trentham Gardens Blog – Come Rain or Shine

March 2022: Joseph – Guest Review for Extraordinary Chaos

March 2022: Billionaire Boy – Guest Review for Extraordinary Chaos

February 2022: Top 30 UK Family Lifestyle Blogs

January 2022: Top 20 UK Parenting Influencers 2021 (ranked 7th)

Summer 2021: Are we there yet? (Contributor)

January 2021: Top 20 UK Parenting Influencers 2021 (ranked 11th)

September 2020: Radio Berkshire – “Monday Motivation” back to school chat

June 2020: Radio Berkshire – discussing “catch up funding” for schools and a return to school in September

June 2020: Ben’s video diary for Newsround about returning to school after 10 weeks of Lockdown

April 2020: Radio Berkshire discussing how to survive if your child isn’t going back to school till September

April 2020: Contributed to 5 Tips for Surviving the Lockdown with Kids – Oliver’s Travels

March 2020: Radio Berkshire discussing the Easter holidays as a teacher during Covid crisis

March 2020: Radio Berkshire discussing plans for home schooling & what we as teachers want parents to do be doing during Covid crisis

March 2020: Contributed to Top Travel Tips from Mom Travellers – Villa Finder

February 2020: BBC Radio 5 Live Drive (discussing potential loss of BBC children’s programming)

January 2020: Top 20 UK Parent blogs 2020

October 2019: BBC Radio 5 with Nihal Arthanayake (School Runnings)

September 2019: Radio Berkshire discussing the Back to School “to do list”

August 2019: Tots 100 – How do you budget for the summer holidays

February 2019: What Do You Listen To When You Drive

December 2018: Top 20 UK Parent Blogs of 2018 – Flea – Ranked 18th

December 2018: #Influencer360: The 5 fast-rising Mommy Influencers of England

December 2018: BBC Breakfast tv – discussing parental responsibility

November 2018: Six reasons why our family loved Roomzzz – guest blog for Roomzzz

November 2018: Britmums – Do you read with your child every day? 

October 2018: BBC 5 Live Drive Time Show – discussing if there’s an ideal age gap between children

September 2018: Little Angels – New Learning and Development Tips

June 2018: Disney’s 24 Hour Challenge – Mirror (Also Liverpool Echo and MEN)

June 2018: The Top 100 Most Influential UK and US Mummy Bloggers (Ranked number 1)

March 2018: The 50 most influential parenting bloggers on twitter in the UK

January 2018: The north of England’s road and rail commuter woes – BBC News

January 2018: Does my body hair offend you? – Tattooed Tea Lady

October 2017: My Youtube with Colette – Tots100

March 2017: Money Saving Tips for a New Mum – Shepherds Friendly

March 2017: Retro Recipes – Foodies 100

March 2017: 100 Amazing National Trust Days Out – Mini Travellers

February 2017: What to give up for Lent – The Parent Game

Feb 2017: The Person Behind the Parent – LesBeMums

January 2017: My Family and Other Animals Guest Post – Tattooed Mummy’s Randoms

Sept 2016: MAD Blog Award finalist 2016 – Oldham Chronicle

Sept 2016: Tots100 Essential Youtube Glossary

July 2015: MAD Blog Awards finalist 2015 the Oldham Chronicle

Guest Post for Oh So Amelia – Surviving the Final Weeks of Pregnancy

Guest Post for Kiddy Charts – Preparing for a new addition

Guest Post for My Petit Canard – Breastfeeding 

Author

  • Colette Burgess is an experienced primary school teacher and has lived in Manchester for most of her adult life. She is married to Dave and they have three children aged 12, 15, and 17.

    Colette has been writing about days out and adventures in Manchester and beyond including day trips and short breaks in the UK and holidays abroad since 2012.

    Colette and her family love festivals, camping and generally being outside.

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