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Media opportunity: your chance to be on TV!

Are you desperate to escape the daily grind? Constantly wondering if there’s more to life? Do you dream of giving up your job, selling the house, cashing in your savings and buying your own business somewhere new? In a new Channel 4 series (Compare your Life), we take families looking for a better quality of life and show them different options for big life changes. Our team of experts…
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Recipes

Recipe: Traditional Cream Tea Scones

With June just around the corner, it is definitely time to start planning a right royal spread for your Diamond Jubilee party. This delicate, light and deliciously sweet Traditional Cream Tea Scones recipe will make for an impeccable party and make you and your children celebrate in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in a truly traditional style. This recipe serves 8. Preparation time: 15…
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Win 1 of 5 copies of 'BAT AND RAT' book By Patrick Jennings

Bat and Rat are two best friends living in the big city. Together these nocturnal pals enjoy their favourite things, like riding the subway, dumpster diving in Chinatown, writing songs, and playing in a band. One hot summer night, while tasting their favourite flavours of ice cream, like mosquito ripple, they find the inspiration for the perfect new tune—for they realize their favourite…
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BlogBooks

The Girl Who Loved Wellies

A puddle-jumpingly funny book! Snug slippers, terrific trainers or the perfect pair of party shoes? NO! It’s wellies that Molly loves. And she loves them so much that she never takes them off. Ever. On the beach, in the bath and even in bed, Molly and her wellies are inseparable and NOTHING’S going to change that . . . or is it? A brilliant new book from the creator of THE BOY WHO…
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Little Learners - New interactive books for babies

Parragon launches Little Learners, the vibrant new interactive book range for babies. Little Learners are great not just for babies but also for mums and carers as they allow babies and toddlers to engage, interact and develop through playing with these beautifully illustrated books. My 5 year old son also loved reading these books by himself so the shelf value of these books is great.
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BlogBooksFeeding the Family

'Florentine and Pig - Have a very lovely picnic' - kids' & mums' new book review

Florentine and Pig have already won over an army of parents with their traditional values, even though the first book won’t be published until 7th June 2012. Eva Katzler has developed the brand and content through online channels. Florentine and Pig have an impressive 1477 followers on Twitter and a whopping 1762 fans on Facebook (early May 2012). Each book sees the two having a different…
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Win 1 of 5 copies of 'FRENCH KIDS EAT EVERYTHING' book by Karen Le Billon

‘How our family moved to France, cured picky eating, banned snacking, and discovered 10 simple rules for raising happy, healthy eaters’ Karen Le Billon. In this wry, self-deprecating memoir, Karen Le Billon shares her personal account of the (at first unwelcome) food education she receives after moving with her husband and two young daughters to a small village in northern France…
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Baby & ToddlersBlog

ALLOW PLENTY OF TIME TO RENEW YOUR PASSPORT THIS SUMMER

Holidaymakers planning to travel this summer should check their passports are valid and leave plenty of time to apply for a new one, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) warned today. As the peak period for passport applications has begun, IPS is reminding customers to check their passport expiry date. If you need a new one, the advice is to allow at least three weeks for it to arrive and…
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Baby & ToddlersBlogFitness & Health

Mother & Baby Yoga with Shiva Rea - Live Fit Live Happy with Gaiam!

Shiva Rea, yoga trainer and innovator is back with another Gaiam collaboration – Mother & Baby Yoga. London Mums are giving you the chance to preview what the DVD has in store with a free workout. Mother & Baby Yoga is the next chapter in the trilogy of Shiva and Gaiam DVD’s. A woman’s body goes through major changes in childbirth and although bonding time with a new baby is…
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May 2012 Newsletter

Dear London Mums This month we have 2 bank holidays, Jubilee celebrations and another half term… WOW! Which exactly means that for us mums it’s going to be a busy and tiring month. But we have lots of resources here on the London Mums website to help you cope. At the end of May we will publish our print LONDON MUMS MAGAZINE (issue 6) with a special section dedicated to the Olympics…
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