Looking for a comprehensive, child-orientated events listing site

[TigerMoth1]

Can anyone help? I need to take my in-laws and children out over the Christmas holidays. Possibly book tickets in advance, panto, theatres, etc etc. I used to rely on Planet4kids, but the last time I looked, its events listings was very out of date boo hoo!

PS Looking for event listings in London and the South East.

Pre-christmas panic stikes!!!

janh, help! I have just spent 20 minutes trying to got on the primary times site. I am using google and typing 'primary times' in the search box. Amongst the listings google throws up, all I can see is primary times North West. I have tried doing a search on that site, but it doesn't list other areas. The only other primary times site I've found via google was a very angry rant about primary times written by someone in scotland.

help!

Ahhh - see what you mean! I wonder why that is the only link given - how odd!

Anyway, tigermoth, what you want is

www.primarytimes.net

thanks janh!

I do not know about a site but bought a really good book called 1,001 places to take your child -was only £5.99 in Books etc.....

It has times, ages suitable for and all sorts of info in - of course covers the whole country so unless I want to skip up to Perthshire from Greenwich one day some of them are a bit too far.

tgermoth, the strangest thing happened today - I was at the PT ed's house doing my listings when a woman rang up and asked if this was PT's head office - she was trying to find a NE edition.

It turned out that she had done what you did, googled and gone through 10 pages of links and that NW one (which isn't even live, it has made-up stuff on it!) was the only one she could find. (If you hadn't told me I wouldn't have known what she was on about.)

How on earth does Google work if it can't pick up the proper website???

Puzzled of Lancs.

I think because Google is so often so good, we tend to forget like any search engine, it's fallible, janh! I've had similar things happen before. You would honestly think if you typed in Spa Valley Railway Tunbridge Wells timetable (and specified UK to rule out Tunbridge Wells, Nebraska), for example, you would get www.spavalleyrailway.co.uk as your first hit. Not a bit of it - a lot of old piffle about that lovely town first and halfway down second page of results appears what should surely have been a 100% ranked result!

But at least it did appear eventually, Marina! The strange thing about primarytimes.net is that it doesn't appear at all...I just put in Primary Times, carefully, with caps, went through 20 pages, and nothing. "Primary Times magazine" got a couple of cross references but that was all. Very very odd.

The words primary and times do cover a huge range of websites - schools and healthcare for a start - but you would still think that a magazine of that name would appear somewhere in the first 20 pages?

I wonder if they know. Maybe I should email them!

most search engines work on picking up the descriptive keywords in the header of the html page. If the person building a website does not either submit their website to the search engine, or add keywords their page(s) using all possible search words they think a person might use to find their their site, then the search engine won't collect it when they do their daily rounds of the internet with their search robots/spiders.

Well - unless anything's changed recently - a lot can happen in cyberspace in a nanosecond!

ooooooh, snickers, that was impressive!

So sites have to tell search engines they exist first? Is that right? That must be what happened then - they didn't - presumably?

I have emailed them now (not the right person but the only email address given). Thanks, snickers!