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Property Renovation: How to Find the Right Builder

Property renovation and home design is once again on the rise. Inspired by the likes of Sarah Beeny, Kevin McCloud, and Phil and Kirstie, more homeowners are taking on ‘project properties’, upgrading what they already own, or sourcing the web for inspiration and ideas. However, to ensure the reality of your dream home, it is essential to find the right building team. No easy feat, right? Here…
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At the Mayor's office!

Earlier this week Mary from Work Your Way and I had an important meeting at the Mayor’s Office. What an exciting venue! Southbank is 100% my favourite place in the whole of London. Great place where to take kids too with lots of entertainment for the whole family and wonderful family friendly restaurants (Giraffe, Wagamama) and venues (BFI, Royal Festival Hall). Work Your Way Community and…
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Myleene Klass talks Bumps, Babies and Beyond in exclusive new web-series on Yahoo! Lifestyle

Lifestyle series launches today full of tips and tricks for parenthood. Myleene tackles: Dad’s guide to birth, predicting the sex of your baby and how to deal with tantrums, plus many more. I met Myleene and she is amazing. She looks glam and fab, she is down to earth, 5 mins in the conversation and she makes you feel she is your best friend. Plus she makes everything look as it is easy! An…
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Please vote for our mumpreneur and fellow London Mum Shazia - deadline 20 Sept 2011 6pm! thanks

We at Third Door are thrilled to be a Top 100 company as judged by Smarta. Please help us win the next stage of winning £10,000. We need your vote. http://www.smarta.com/smarta100/2011-winners/third-door It only takes 10 secs to register and vote on this website. Please vote for us. Coming 1st place will mean so much to us than just the money. It’ll take us one step closer to realising our…
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Mobile app The Pickled Onion Gang sales to benefit Thai children

Creators of the mobile gaming app Pickled Onion Gang are to donate all profits from the sale of the game to help disadvantaged children in Thailand through Thai Children’s Trust, the largest UK charity focusing solely on Thailand. The Pickled Onion Gang is an intelligent app for kids on the go – a mobile app that will make a mum’s life easier during rainy days – London Mums…
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Baby & ToddlersMumpreneurs & Mums at workParenting Skills

Is our quest for a risk free play environment realistic and healthy?

How often do you see a child these days with a broken arm? Rarely I would say. By the time I was 13 I’d broken an arm and some fingers, my classmates had various proper scrapes and bumps and teeth knocked out. All of this was a normal part of growing up. But, we’d climbed every tree in the neighbourhood, could ride a bike brilliantly by the age of 8, and pretty much anything else with wheels.
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Mums would earn £37,000 a year if paid for their time!

Clocking up the mum-hours, Three reveals the reality of modern motherhood. Mums work over 70 hours a week on family activities. Mums would earn £37,000 a year if paid for their time. Cleaning the house takes up the biggest share of mums’ time. Mums across the UK spend an average of ten hours (612 minutes) a day carrying out household tasks and conducting family activities, according to…
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Win 1 of 3 'Liquid Thinking' books

A great summer read, a self-help book called Liquid Thinking (rrp £9.99 each). The author, Damian Hughes, looks at the methods used by great achievers and shows, in easy steps, how you can adopt them into your own life, dreams and ambitions. Most importantly, he shows how so-called ‘ordinary’ people have adopted the lessons to be able to achieve life-long ambitions, from…
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The ladies who transformed London into 'Scooterlandia'

Most London Mums are familiar with the ubiquitous colourful Micro Scooters that are everywhere and are a favourite in the parks and on the school run. Anna Gibson and Philippa Gogarty, Co-Founders and Joint Directors of Micro Scooters Ltd tell us how they got started and what the inspiration was for setting up the business… Philippa: “We met in 2002 as young mums at our first baby…
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