Product reviews

Christmas Gift Guide 2013: BABIES & TODDLERS

It is always quite tricky to buy a present for babies and toddlers as you need to please both the mums and the kids. I hope this selection would please everyone. 🙂 Pebble Fair Trade Cotton Crochet Christmas Santa Rattle The perfect 1st Christmas gift for a baby – this handmade, fair trade Santa rattle makes a really cute stocking filler. It is made by Pebble under Fair Trade conditions in…
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Competitions

WIN 1 of 5 DINO-TASTIC WALKING WITH DINOSAURS: THE 3D MOVIE GOODY BAGS

To celebrate the release of WALKING WITH DINOSAURS: THE 3D MOVIE (from Twentieth Century Fox), in cinemas on 20 December 2013, we are offering FIVE lucky readers the chance to win a dino-tastic goody bag! For the first time in movie history, audiences will truly see and feel what it was like when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. WALKING WITH DINOSAURS: THE 3D MOVIE is the ultimate immersive…
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Shopping Guides

LONDON MUMS EXCLUSIVE CHRISTMAS OFFERS & PROMOTIONS

I hope you can all enjoy some of our EXCLUSIVE OFFERS & PROMOTIONS. Are you short of ideas for Christmas gifts? Check our original London Mums shopping platform to be inspired by unique products. http://londonmums.milkster.com/ As mums settle back into the school run, so begins the longstanding battle against nits. Avoiding these unpleasant mites is difficult as they pass from child to…
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Movies

Film review: Disney FROZEN

Walt Disney Animation Studios (“Tangled”, “Wreck-It Ralph”) is releasing a new Christmas animation movie “Frozen,” a stunning big-screen comedy adventure. Fearless optimist Anna (voice of Kristen Bell) sets off on an epic journey—teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff (voice of Jonathan Groff) and his loyal reindeer Sven to find her sister Elsa (voice of Idina Menzel), whose…
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Movies

New pre-school Cbeebies show 'Melody' will inspire disable (& not) children with classical music, stories and colourful animation

The Royal National Institute of Blind People’s (RNIB) Pears Centre for Specialist Learning has teamed up with a TV production company to create a new series for the BBC’s CBeebies channel. “Melody”, a partially sighted girl with an incredible imagination, is designed to introduce pre-school children to a variety of classical music through stories and colourful animation.
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Shopping Guides

This Christmas you can play games and learn a language

Learning a second language is one of life’s great gifts. This Christmas you can give the gift of language in a game. With KLOO, you’ll be sure to have everyone speaking a foreign language quickly and easily – and having lots of fun too. Makes learning a language fast, easy and fun – even for beginners Multi-award winning KLOO has turned learning a language into a game. Using KLOO’s…
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Blog

CHANGE BEREAVEMENT LEAVE CAMPAIGN SPEAR-HEADED BY GRIEVING MOTHER ACHIEVES PROMISE FROM PRIME MINISTER

New national opinion poll reveals that 71% voters think there should be a national guaranteed minimum entitlement to bereavement leave for close family members Lucy Herd, who tragically lost her toddler son in 2010, has achieved a major step forward in her campaign to bring to Parliament’s attention the fact that grieving parents are only entitled to three days unpaid statutory leave if their…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

London mum Penny Davenport launches kitchen worktop masterclasses; talk about work & life around your kitchen table

Career coach and mentor Penny Davenport has launched a bespoke service bringing her training skills to your kitchen table for you and our friends this autumn. Are you looking for a different direction in life? Have your children started school and you want to get back to work, or are you returning to the world of work after maternity leave? Penny can discuss these challenges, in a constructive…
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Competitions

Win a Comfort Christmas Limited edition pack

MAKE YOUR GUESTS FEEL AT HOME THIS CHRISTMAS with this COMFORT Christmas Limited-Edition Pack. Make your guests feel more relaxed and at home this festive period with Limited-Edition Comfort Vanilla & Gold Iris Christmas pack. Christmas is a time for savouring time with friends and family, but we all know how busy the household can get with all of your excited guests! So, Comfort is…
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Blog

CALLS FOR HOMELESSNESS HELP IN LONDON TO SOAR THIS CHRISTMAS

Charity predicts surge in calls after helpline sees over 3200 callers last December. Shelter is bracing itself for an alarming rise in demand for help from people in London struggling to keep their homes this Christmas, following a record surge in callers to the charity’s helpline over the holiday period in 2012. Last year, 3,240 people from the region called the helpline in December – a 12%…
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