August, 2012

Join our daily photo challenge for September: #SnapHappyBritMums

Here we are, another month further into 2012 and another month closer to 2013! We’ve been running the #SnapHappyBritMums challenge since May and have had a small but very loyal following. Last month @Splodz provided us with a wonderful month of themes which challenged all of us (Triangle? Beetle? Weep?). This month we have another [...]

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BritMums Blogger of the Week: Domestic Goddesque

So here we are…the last week of the Summer Holiday for many of us while the Scottish bloggers amongst us are sticking out their tongues at us as they’ve been back to school for 2-3 weeks! Between the last minute uniform buying, ironing (Seriously??? Do I HAVE to iron??), labelling and lunchbox planning, I’d like [...]

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Laugh out Loud or at least chuckle quietly in recognition

SUMMER HOLIDAY EDITION It is the holiday season so I’m kicking off this month’s roundup with the start of a holiday diary from 40yearolddomesticgodess . Wish you were here and all that! I’m hoping the holiday improved and that I never meet the grandma with 27 tattoos! Sarah at Mum of Three World spent her [...]

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Back to School: Lunch box dilemmas

Caroline Job is back with a post to solve all of your lunch box worries, to help make sure you get the 5-a-day in and that your child will grow healthy and strong, read on to make sure you are preparing top packed lunches for your students. The summer holidays are coming to an end, [...]

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Join the Tommy’s #whenIgrowup linky

BritMums is proud to support charities. This post by Kylie at Not Even a Bag of Sugar, asks bloggers to lend support for this important Tommy’s initiative. Please have a read, and add a post to the Linky below. My son is 3 years old. He tells me when he grows up he is going [...]

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Green round up

BritMums Green Roundup – come on you wasters!

Welcome to this month’s Green Roundup. I hope you’ve enjoyed a wonderful summer. Ok, so the weather might not have been made up of the long, hot, hazy summer days we remember as kids, but it’s all about the memories, right? I don’t know about you, but once September rolls around again I feel like [...]

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Fareshare – fight against hunger and food waste

FareShare is an award-winning charity fighting food hunger and waste in the UK. It does this by rescuing good quality surplus food that would otherwise go to waste and sending it to over 700 charities across the country to be eaten by people in need. The issues at a glance Did you know 5.6 million [...]

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BritMums Blogging Prompts – Lessons learned and Summer highlights

Summer holiday is drawing to a close. School uniform shopping is in high swing and thoughts are turning to lunchboxes, play dates and after school sporting activities. So much to do and now, so little time left! This week’s blog prompts, therefore are about learning lessons and highlighting your best bits of the Summer Holiday. [...]

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adoption fostering round up

Adoption/ Fostering round-up: Adoption perspectives, frustrations and love

  Welcome to the 2nd Adoption/Fostering round-up. This month I have been pretty quiet on the blogging front myself but the upside of that is that I have had time to read and enjoy blog posts from the A/F community – thank you Twitter for making it so easy! My Favourites list is growing! I [...]

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My Best Post of The Week #MBPW

  Thumbs up for the weekend and it’s an extra long one with the added Bank Holiday Monday this week – yoohoo, let’s just hope the weather plays ball. Just a note – this time next week we’ll be officially in September, where did all that time go? All parents are on countdown for the [...]

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