Pinterest Round-up: Getting started

Hello and welcome to my first BritMums round-up post for Pinterest. As a blogger who is trying to grow Pinterest, I am very excited to share hints and tips with you. I will also be picking out my favourite pins for the month! Hopefully, we can grow our Pinterest together. Let’s start at the beginning, […]

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Books Round-up: Celebrating World Book Day

Hello everyone, I hope you all had a great March and of course enjoyed World Book Day. World Book Day is such a great day for celebrating everything that is bookish and fun about reading, so I thought I would dedicate this month’s round-up to it.  Being a book lover myself it was only natural that […]

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60 tips for Football Mums from Football Mums #ad

What makes a Football Mum? This was the intriguing question we asked during our #FootballMumoftheYear Twitter chat. The chat was sponsored by McDonald’s, which encourages people to nominate a deserving “football mum” to be Football Mum of the Year. This scheme celebrates football mums who go above and beyond, supporting their young footballers, whether cheering […]

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Poetry & Prose Round-up: Making the most of March

Welcome back to the BritMums poetry and prose round-up for the month of March, one where I have seen a plethora of different poetry offerings with plenty of creativity from the young through to those of us who are a bit longer in the tooth!  On March 21st a number of us bards celebrated World Poetry […]

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Video: FREE Tennis for Kids is here! #ad

It’s time! You can book your 5- to 8-year-old into FREE tennis lessons now at a local club and get your children enjoying the fun and fitness of tennis. Your child will even get a tennis racket to keep when they complete the Tennis for Kids programme, ensuring they can continue to serve, return and smash! […]

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LOL Round-up: The one with all the poop

Potty training is as much a right of passage for parents as it is our squidgy bare butted offspring. It’s one of those true “I don’t know how the hell to do this” parenting moments that has us reaching for google faster than Chicken Pox spots. So if you are in the midst of this […]

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Environment Round-up: Easter eggs

I think Easter must be one of the most wasteful times of the year. Just think of all those Easter eggs in unnecessarily large packaging as they vie for your attention on the shop shelves. Do you remember “in your youth” when the sweets were inside the chocolate egg so small boxes were used to […]

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Travel Round-up: Sizzling Spain

I have a soft spot for Spain, from the moment I coveted castanets and a straw donkey on a family trip to Majorca in the 1970s. More holidays to Spain continued and even in my twenties I joined my mum and dad on a trip to Tenerife where I met my future husband – who said holiday […]

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Teens & Tweens Round-up: The highs & lows

At last we seem to emerging from a long, dark winter! The spring flowers are blooming. There is even the glint of sun in the sky every now and again, swiftly followed by an icy downpour. This is what it can be like parenting tweens and teens and this month’s round up is a reflection […]

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Positively Inspirational Round-up: Escaping, moonwalking & random acts of kindness!

Hi everyone how are you? I hope by the time this post goes out the weather will have warmed up bit.  I’m writing this on the first day of spring and it is COLD in Somerset and this is not what I have been hoping for.  We’re going on a family holiday abroad in a few […]

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Gardening Round-up: Warmer weather starting to shine through

At last there has been some sunshine, the Hawthorn bushes are full of white flowers, blowing across the country lanes, this for me signifies the start of the warmer weather! This week sees me celebrate my birthday, and my present is a lovely Wooden Greenhouse, so look forward to lots of growing posts on Hex […]

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#SnapHappyBritMums: April 2017

BritMums runs a regular photo prompt challenge – #SnapHappyBritMums! We’d love you to join in with us! Each day we set a theme, and all you need to do is be creative around that theme and snap away! Save the image above as a daily reminder to refer to. Everyone is welcome – do join […]

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Home & Design Round-up : A whole house worth of makeovers

Bumper edition today of all of the makeover posts that I have been spotting in the UK blog world.  I think I’ve covered every kind of room of the house in this one, so hold onto your hats I’m going in! Starting off with one of mine from last month, and its my stairs and […]

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Time to learn, not sunburn: Great holiday ideas for curious families

Learning doesn’t stop when school’s out for summer, at least not in our house. The learning holidays we find best are where everyone starts as a complete novice and we learn something together as a family, going through the pain of failure before emerging into the pleasure of a new skill gained. The range of […]

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