Recipes

Recipe: Roasted butternut squash soup

Great and simple recipe for roasted butternut squash soup. A satisfying supper for those chilly winter nights. Suitable for vegetarians Serves 4 Ready in 1 hour, 15 minutes Ingredients * 25g sunflower seeds * 1 small butternut squash, about 700g, halved and with seeds scooped out * 25g butter * 1 small onion, chopped * 1 large potato, peeled and diced * 1 litre vegetable stock * 142ml pot…
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Baby & Toddlers

Why do Babies Dribble?

Most babies will start to dribble or drool at around the age of three months. Fortunately a dribble bib helps keep baby’s clothes dry throughout the day, but without a bib a baby will be soaking wet from dribble very quickly. This is because the salivary glands are starting to work in preparation for solid foods but not capable of moving the saliva to the back of the mouth to swallow it. At…
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Fashion & Beauty

Why do we love Vintage Fashion so much?

Why is vintage fashion back on trend? Why do we feel so drawn to fashion from the 50s and 60s? Call me crazy but I am the kind of girl who feels really nostalgic about those amazing two decades after WW2 when people rebuilt their homes, their confidence, when there was so much optimism for the future, when there was very little technology and every new gadget was rather seen with scepticism to…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

5 Ways To Gain Rock Star Exposure For Your Business

Rock stars have all the fun, don’t they? They’re in the limelight all the time and their fans follow everything they say and do. Which makes their fans perfect advocates for their brand. Their message gets spread far and wide, which results in – yep you’ve guessed it – more fans! For the likes of you and me running our own business, gaining rock star exposure doesn’t seem at…
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Party tips

The Skint Mums' Guide to Throwing a Cheap Halloween Party

Halloween has exploded in popularity in the last decade, with UK spending on the festival skyrocketing from just £12 million a decade ago to an estimated £300 million last year. This surge in popularity means that, according to a recent survey, the average family spends almost £70 on Halloween! However, £70 is a hefty price to pay for a festival which essentially boils down to playing dress up…
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Parenting Skills

14 Keywords to understand your partner, your kids & your friends

At the age of 44 I have finally managed to gather pearls of wisdom from wise people to share with my fellow London Mums. I hope you enjoy 14 keywords to understand your partner, your kids and your friends. Keywords to understand your partner Attention – When you fall in love, what you like the most is the attention to details that both partners express to each other. But when you have kids…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Flexible work opportunities for mums with The Home Club

I know a lot of you mums out there would love to go back to work. You may have a child and feel like there is just something holding you back from getting back to work, like child-care, or that sudden lack of flexibility you will suffer from stepping back into the office. Believe me, I have lost count of the number of times my mum has told me she gave up a brilliant career to mother the four of…
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Parenting Skills

Tips on Strengthening Child Self Esteem

The summer holidays are long gone and with that the wonderful if slightly stressful period of having the kids at home all the time.. However the start of a new school term can be a good time to step back and reassess your own sub-conscious beliefs and self talk, which in turn has a tremendous effect…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

PR Support for Mumpreneurs

You have just started your kitchen table business and you don’t have marketing budget. You just need to build a website and create content for it but don’t know where to start. You have been told to write a press release to announce the launch of your product, service or business but you don’t know how to do it. You want to ramp up your social media presence but you don’t…
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Fitness & Health

Health in the City: Are you Breast Aware?

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and you know by now how passionate I am about this particular health issue. London Mums have joined forces with BMI Healthcare to encourage women in London to be more aware of the issues surrounding their health and wellbeing in the capital. In this article we look at breast cancer and ask the question, are you breast aware? ABOUT BREAST CANCER Most of…
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