So the World Cup was a damp squib, wasn’t it? Well the men’s World Cup was last year, with England sloping out after a humiliating defeat to Germany. But wipe away the sweat and beer of the men’s game, and look to this year’s women’s World Cup in Germany. While Japan were the eventual winners, [...]
July, 2011
#BritMums Blogger of the Week
I have to say, this feature on the BritMums blog is just the most fun! Keeping my eyes peeled for outstanding posts and bloggers each week makes the blogosphere a very fun place indeed. Isn’t it great to showcase a wonderful blogger and celebrate his or her talent? I think so! (Group hug??) In my [...]
Is Twitter really turning children off books?
When former MI5 director and current Man Booker Prize judge, Dame Stella Rimington claimed that Twitter and mobile phones were diminishing reading, an age old debate was brought to the fore. Speaking to the Telegraph, Rimington said: “I think much of the Twittering and emailing and texting and all that sort of stuff that children [...]
Good Reads
Another week, another opportunity to draw a bit of attention to posts that have caught our attention. We love to read posts from new and "experienced" bloggers so please feel free to leave a recommendation in the comments section below. If you've got a brilliant post to "pimp" or if you've read something from someone [...]
School’s out for summer…
Whether you’re a working mum with a sudden childcare blackhole between 8.30am and 3.30pm, a stay-at-home mum with a sudden increase in household decibels, or one of the many in-betweeners, the summer holidays bring more than their fair share of challenges. So how are you going to face the next six weeks? Home Office Mum [...]
Guest post: It’s time to banish the children’s menu!
Families eat out together more than ever. But @Working_Mum, who blogs at Adventures of a Working Mum, finds the situation not quite up to snuff when it comes to the food on offer for the kids. Find out what she has to say about it and tell us whether you think the “children’s menu” should [...]
Rosie Millard on the joys and perils of extended family adventure travel
We’ve all tried to motivate recalcitrant children for an outing or even a trip to the corner shop. Just imagine getting them enthusiastic about a trek across five continents. The journalist Rosie Millard, who blogs at Helicoptermum.com, set off with her family to a tour of the French Overseas Departments and Territories (the Dom-Toms) [...]
Guest post: 18 tips for writing a novel + review Seven Days One Summer
Kate Morris joined BritMums just months after we launched in 2008. She told us she was working on her next novel and we were impressed at how she kept at it, while raising a young family and posting regularly on her blog Writing and Moaning. She’s just released her newest novel Seven Days One Summer. I [...]
BritMums Blogger of the Week
This week’s BritMums Blogger of the Week is a blogger who is known for making a difference. She has also been around the blogosphere for quite a while now and is loved and respected by bloggers far and near. She’s a shining example of what bloggers can achieve when they use their voice. So who [...]
Good Reads
In our ongoing weekly feature, we like to give you a handful of good reads to fill those moments when you're not being an amazing housewife, mother and/or business woman. You know, those 5 minutes where your child is either out of the house or asleep and you can't find anything better to do? Here [...]
Should mums be too busy to blog?
Well, another article has hit the web, this time from the Telegraph. Another article that criticises the online parenting forums (Mumsnet and Netmums in particular) and the plethora of “mummy bloggers” who somehow find the time to blog amid all of their other responsibilities. The author, Jojo Moyes, manages to criticise the topics on the [...]
Time Saving Tips Twitter Party
We held another successful Twitter Party on 12 July where we asked Mums to give us their top Time Saving Tips. We always know where to turn when we’re looking for the best tips in the UK…our BritMums! We asked for your top tips, favourite apps and Mummy’s Little Helpers that make your life easier. [...]
Does blogging cramp your style?
This weekend we attended one of the highlights of our summer: Giffords Circus in the Cotswolds. I made mental notes, jotted down observations and took pictures with my iTouch. I’m kinda in love with everything about Giffords and I wanted to convey that excitement and affection with my blog post. As a result, I was [...]
BritMums Guest Post Pairings
We’re kicking off our FIRST BritMums Guest Post Matchup this week! Bloggers signed up last week to share their blogs with each other and this week they will be guest blogging on each other’s blogs and expanding their blogging audience. The only constraints that we’re putting on the pairs is that they need to guest [...]
BritMums guest post matchup
At BritMums, we like to help new bloggers and “old” to find each other, learn from each other and grow the community. Inspired by Erica at Littlemummy, we are launching the BritMums Guest Post Matchup. What are we talking about? Well, here goes… We all know what guest blogging is, right? Well, in case you [...]
Blogger of the Week
It's that time of the week again! That time where we honour a BritMums Blogger who has done something amazingly outstanding in the week. Something to make us all sit up and take notice. Now who might it be this week? Well, this particular blogger has been around since October of 2010. She is rather [...]
Good Reads
We love to know what good reads are flying about in our blogging community so we went straight to the source on the BritMums Network! We asked you to give us some good reads to take us into the summer holidays and you gave us some outstanding ones. Have a look, grab a cuppa, sit [...]
Bloggers designing time-savings apps? Vote & join our Twitter party
Three have teamed with the BritMums blogging community to help show parents how they can get the most out of their smartphones and use the internet on the go. It’s not often you get asked to take part in a brainstorm with ten of your friends to come up with an idea for a time-saving app. Five [...]
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