Fashion & Beauty

Hello Summer

I might have slightly miscalculated when I applied the hair dye inbetween putting dinner in the oven and eating it. And I certainly hadn’t counted on my other half actually getting home in time to eat with me. What a picture, plastic bag wrapped around my carefully applied home dye, muffin tops on full display (I had thoughtfully removed my top to prevent accidents). Delightful. And thus we…
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Childcare

Government must get early years education right

Now that the Liberal Democrats have come out against increasing childcare ratios, I hope the government will stop and think very carefully about their proposals to increase staff: children ratios in nurseries across the country. Saving money at this crucial stage in our children’s development could have grave consequences not only for our children’s lives but for society as a whole. Under the…
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Fitness & Health

Vine extract grew new hope for my daughter’s eczema

Read this great testimonial from Karen Henry, mother to six–year old Lauren Henry. “I had my first nights sleep in two years after a vine extract cured my daughter’s eczema!” Karen says: “Lauren has always suffered with terrible eczema since she was a baby. In summer her eczema got so bad she had to be bandaged from the neck down every night as if not she tore her skin…
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Get Creative

Sew What You Reap

There is something so completely addictive about trims and buttons, ribbons, beads and threads that I really do think Kirsty Allsop said it best; ‘haberdashery is like a drug’. With her passion for vintage textiles and home decoration, she has reawakened an interest in embellishment of home decor and clothing that could be said to have spearheaded the revival in handcrafts &#8211…
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Fitness & Health

The links between healing and health

Weight issues caused by the weight of Heartache, a touchy subject and quite often one that is swept under the rug, WEIGHT GAIN, and WEIGHT LOSS, Both complete opposite issues but both birthed from a similar place, which is often emotional issues, Insecurity, Pressure, heartache, and in numerous cases, break up and Divorce. An outreach to find release or a numb-ness can result to binge eating, or…
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Recipes

RECIPE: ANNABEL KARMEL’S YUMMY YOGURT LOLLIES FOR TEETHING TOTS

Mum of three, Annabel Karmel MBE is a modern day ‘mumpreneur’. As the UK’s number one parenting author and expert on devising delicious and nutritious meals for babies, toddlers and children, Annabel knows how important it is to give teething tots something to chew and suck on during their teething troubles. Annabel Karmel comments: “Teething is a difficult and painful process for most…
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Parenting Skills

Forty something pop princess – Choices and consequences

“Mummy, what do you think?” Hmm. I think I have just walked in on a conversation I don’t want to get involved in. My teenage daughter is looking at me imploringly with her beautifully expressive eyes, widening them to full stretch in the way she does when she is trying to tell me something telepathically. The problem is this. At my daughter’s request, I bought her and her oldest…
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Fitness & Health

Mummy Are You Taking Good Care of Yourself?

When they run through the safety drill on the airplane they usually say – ‘In the event that there is a change in air pressure, when the oxygen mask light goes on put the mask on yourself first, then help others’. This way you will be stronger, breathing of course and more capable of helping others, especially those closest to you. This analogy can be applied to your daily life too, take…
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Parenting Skills

Sex education: tips for parents who don't know where to start with the 'birds and bees talk'

Well, well… Personally I find the topic of sex education quite tough to discuss with my child. Kids are curious and the crucial questions come up at some point. Interestingly, it would appear parents agree with Ofcom’s findings as recent research from Mum Show Live! (exhibition for parents with kids at school age) shows 95 per cent of British parents say it will be mum who teaches…
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Fashion & Beauty

Eat yourself beautiful (hooray!)

I’m reading the most amazing book, The Clear Skin Cookbook, in it Dale Pinnock reveals how different vitamins and minerals really get to work on our skin. He looks into the science of how the skin works and goes on to suggest some very simple, tasty meals that are packed full of skin-boosting compounds. The saying “you are what you eat’ springs to mind and we’re told…
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