Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Opportunity for mums: Get paid to review next season's fashion items

Happy New Year London Mums! Are you feeling the pinch after Christmas? Here is a great way to earn some money this long cold month. Slicethepie.com pay mums like you to review music, yep, get paid to sit and review stuff! Slicethepie are just breaking in to the fashion market and will now pay you to review next season’s fashion items! Your reviews will help to predict the next big hits and…
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Fitness & Health

NO New Year's resolutions! Lifestyle detox is the MUST in 2015

New Year’s resolutions suck and in 2015 I will use common sense to detox my lifestyle and live better. At the end of the day health is the most important thing in life! I have made a list of the key ingredients to live 2015 to the max. Linking my annual rant about lifestyle detox to Sandra’s recent article Will this be your last New Year diet ever? here are my top tips to make simple…
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Parenting Skills

Benefits of an Only Child

I am an only child not by my parents’ choice but life hasn’t been generous in my family and here I am alone. My son is also an only child,  again not completely by choice and still I get to be asked the question ‘are you not giving your son a brother or sister?’. This has raised many dilemmas in my head such as ‘Am I ruining my son?’ Asking people if/why they…
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Movies

Future Films Heads Up: A LITTLE CHAOS

2015 looks like a great year for movies. Next Spring there are a couple of light-hearted productions including Fifty Shades of Grey and A Little Chaos that seem perfect for a girlie night out. Following a global premiere at The Toronto International Film Festival and a gala presentation at the BFI London Film Festival Lionsgate UK will bring Alan Rickman’s sumptuous British Period Drama A LITTLE…
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Movies

Future films heads up: Disney's live action feature Cinderella & new short Frozen Fever

Following the huge success of Frozen, Walt Disney Animation Studios have announced a all-new short called Frozen Fever, which welcomes Anna, Elsa, Kristoff and Olaf back to the big screen, in theaters in March 2015, in front of Disney’s Cinderella, a live-action feature inspired by the classic fairy tale. Directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, and produced by Peter Del Vecho and Aimee…
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Attractions

London in the movies in 2014

2014 has been a big year for London in terms of its representation both in British and international films. I recently spent a few days in New York City at the global premiere of Netflix original series March Polo and had tremendous fun spotting all locations of big movies such as Spider-Man and many others. But my heart remains in London which in my view is an unbeatable venue for filming as well…
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Competitions

Win 1 of 10 pairs of tickets to the world premiere of Testament Of Youth on Monday 5 January 2015 at Empire Leicester Square

To celebrate the forthcoming release of Vera Brittain’s heart-breaking war memoir Testament of Youth, in cinemas 16th January 2015, London Mums are giving ten readers the chance to win tickets to the World Premiere of the film in London, Monday 5th January 2015. Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has…
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Attractions

Christmas in London 2014 - Things to do with kids

There are such high expectations for Christmas in London but once again my family and I are never disappointed year on year. This is the festive season families wait for all year. If you are spending the festivities in the Capital, Christmas in London 2014 is filled with things to do with kids including skating at local ice rinks across the city, Santa’s Grottos everywhere, fantastic theatre…
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Movies

All Hail King Julien! The world's biggest party animal now has his own Madagascar spin-off series

The world’s biggest party animal King Julien was in town last Sunday for the screening party of Netflix Original Series All Hail King Julien at Prince Harry’s favourite Bar Mahiki, London, where guests were treated to dance lessons from Got to Dance winners Duplica8 and King Julien, jungle inspired mocktails, cocktails and food. What a laugh! Celebrities including Pixie Lott, Jamie…
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Movies

Film review: Testament of Youth

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH is a searing story of love, war and remembrance. Based on Vera Brittain’s classic First World War memoir, this is the powerful true story of one young woman’s struggle to survive the horrors of war – a war which robbed her of everything and everyone she held dear, but was ultimately unable to break her spirit. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH will be released in cinemas across the…
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