Stefanie Jones as Mary Poppins (Image: Danny Kaan)

Mary Poppins is back in town and as the Wales Millennium Centre's Christmas show, you couldn't ask for better.

A special story to me, and millions of others, I spent every Christmas and Easter watching the Disney movie and with the big screen Bert aka Dick van Dyke about to celebrate his 100th birthday (on December 13) it felt like utter kismet to go along and see this mesmerising interpretation of PL Travers' 1930s literary heroine.

Having seen the Cameron Mackintosh musical twice before, I knew what I was in for so was quite excited, especially as I was taking my six-year-old stepson, who's utterly fresh to the magic of the sharp and sweet practically perfect nanny.

It's a really long show, two hours 40 with an interval, but he was

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