About Not a Notting Hill Mum

Not a Notting Hill Mum" is a journalist and writer, who has lived in Notting Hill for 15 years and blogs about ordinary life in W11 among the celebrities, supermodels and super-rich. She is slowly getting used to the fact that she is also a mother to Amelie and Alexander (now 8 and 5). So as well as writing about what's going on in the neighbourhood from cool - and affordable- places to visit, to how to find the Blue Door, NNHM also writes about the issues thrown up by modern family life and the funny things her children do and say. You can find her at http://www.notanottinghillmum.co.uk

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LOL round-up: Getting naked, Easter, and snow

The end of March and it’s been a busy and potentially hilarious month what with Red Nose Day, the snow,  Mother’s Day, and  Easter. Yes, Easter in March. It’s so early I wonder if some people did start the week having no idea how it would end and having to rush out at the last [...]

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Laugh Out Loud Round-up: Love is in the air

Love is in the air.  February: the month of romance and St Valentine. Ok, the month of not being able to go out without seeing shiny red hearts everywhere : whether they be balloons, chocolates or satin cushions.  And the month of being persuaded at every turn to swop your cash for a cute little [...]

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Laugh Out Loud: Beating the January blues

  As it is still January –or it was when I started writing this! – I was hoping for some hilarious new year’s resolutions for this months’ round-up . So first prize to Lowden Clear for providing just that. I particularly like the idea of enjoying nice presents  and not saving them for best. For you [...]

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Laugh Out Loud – Christmas is over!

  So “It’s Christmas time… there’s no need to be afraid” .. This time round there’ll be no tales of sexual exploits or frightening episodes involving anything purple. If you don’t know what I’m talking about then read last month’s sex and romance LOL roundup here on Britmums. The idea this month was that there [...]

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LOL Round-up: Don’t read with a toddler on your knee

  As the Christmas party season approaches, our minds turn to photocopying our bottoms and wallpapering the office with the images. Or snogging the boss after you’ve eaten a mince-pie leaving crumbs in his moustache. So it seems appropriate to bring together some of your more romantic or raunchier posts. It’s taken me a month [...]

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Laugh Out Loud round-up: The funny side of parenting

  It’s strange the way each month a theme seems to develop linking a large number of the funny posts suggested to me – without me needing to be all bossy and say well it’s October so I want stuff on conkers and Halloween. And no that’s not this month’s theme,  because the themes really [...]

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Laugh out loud, or just quietly chuckle to yourself

Going back to school – it will either make you laugh or make you cry. This post Death by training shoe on It’s a Crazy World should do both. And this is how it was going back to school or nursery for Lisa who blogs at Motherhood or Madness. Be careful what you say to your kids – they [...]

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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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LOL Round-up BritMums Live 2012

SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE ROUNDUP To further celebrate the fantastically fun Britmums 2012 and ensure that my fellow nominees in the Laugh category of the awards are known to you all, I’ve decided to use this month’s roundup to highlight the blogs of the 8 finalists in the Laugh category of the Brilliance in Blogging awards. So [...]

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LOL Round-up: Laugh out Loud – or just quietly to yourself.

I thought it would be nice to showcase a few new bloggers this month. Yes I know there’s a separate blog for that, but it’s bizarre how themes kind of create themselves and a lot of the suggestions this time round are from newer bloggers. (I’m not going to say which are which) – and [...]

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