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Politics Round-up; Extraordinary commentators

I am adopting a slightly different approach to this months round-up and taking a closer look at the BiBs shortlist in the commentary category. Politics can mean many things beyond simply the activity of those in parliament, and the thing that binds all of the nominees in this category together is a desire to improve [...]

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Positively Inspirational Round-up: Appreciating who we are

I’m sat here in my dining room with the patio doors open and I’m looking out to newly bloomed flowers, fresh green grass and a bright sun, what is not to like?  It feels very easy to write the Positively Inspirational round-up this month, Spring is here and that in itself is a reason to [...]

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Crowd Sourced Positively Inspirational Round-up

  A blank canvas It’s been a good month for positive posts. I think there is something about the start of the year that people see as a blank canvas and feel optimistic about what might lay ahead. Quite quickly I found a few posts that I wanted to link to in this round-up, like [...]

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Best posts of 2012 voted by our round-up editors

It’s one year now the BritMums round-ups have been running and we’ve seen so much great content this year, when it came to highlighting it we just couldn’t decide. Luckily we have a stable of talented and plugged-in round-up editors who regularly cherry pick the best posts around. So we asked them to tell us [...]

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Photo Blog Round-up: It’s Christmas!

  My photography studio has taken a lot of photos at Santas’ Grottos this year — A LOT. I wish I could show you all the photos of crying children that we have accumulated. Quite frankly, they are hilarious (including one of my own daughter on I Carried a Watermelon). I guess parents around the [...]

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Good Reads: Paper, parenthood and trips

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmaaaaasssss. Aren’t you just a little excited? No? Well, obviously not: there are just days until the schools break up so you need to make the most of your time alone. So forget about Christmas cards and wrapping presents

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Good Reads: Parenthood, wrapping paper and life changing trips

  It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmaaaaasssss. Aren’t you just a little excited? No? Well, obviously not: there are just days until the schools break up so you need to make the most of your time alone. So forget about Christmas cards and wrapping presents and queuing in the Post Office to pick up a parcel that [...]

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Positively Inspirational Round-up: Christmas of joy!

  Hello all, thanks for coming back and joining me this month.  Are you busy already, starting to get organised for Christmas?  As you read this I’ll be getting our trees up at home and the kids will be having fun decorating their own tree with the ‘more is more’ ethos. I keep mentioning to [...]

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Review Round-up: Twinkl, Shrek & Disneyland Paris

You might have realised there was no review round-up last month, and the reason behind it? I had to fly to the Czech Republic to be with my family as my dad was at the hospital. Anyway, I am not here to talk about that, but to present you a huge variety of review posts [...]

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Education Roundup: Home learning & pondering

Hello and welcome to this months Education Roundup. As the weather takes us deeper into autumn and the leaves come tumbling down, I thought I’d start off this month’s Roundup with a look at some learning through play activities that can be done in the home. I’ll kick off with this lovely post from Emma [...]

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My Best Post of The Week

  Another week has gone by and we’re now in October, how quickly has this year shot by? First mention this week goes to our lovely Jen Howze who’s off to Ethiopia today with the equally lovely Michelle Pannel for the ONE campaign, they’ll be keeping in touch with us over the next week, connection permitting, [...]

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Oct Inspirational Round-up: Life weeding and more

  Awesome Journey… As this post goes live today I am taking possibly the most exciting journey of my life.  Today I am travelling with Jen Howze to Ethiopia with the ONE campaign. Jen and I will be privileged to meet mothers in another continent, living in very different conditions to us and we will [...]

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Reviews Round-up for September

It is the fourth Wednesday of the month, which means it is time to check out some interesting reviews. This time I was inspired mostly by bloggers who had left their links at my last review round-up. I have to say that most of them were completely new to me, so it was lovely browsing [...]

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An abundance of positivity! Positively inspirational round-up

  Well I never, the month of August has quite escaped me, I decided to have a bit of a bloggy break and have throughly enjoyed it.  I highly recommend a bloggy break every now and then. If you have not yet been brave enough to stay away from your blog for any length of time, [...]

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Travel Round-up: Camping, Cornwall & Cologne

Can’t quite believe a week has gone by since the weekend of the BritMums Live conference. My first ever blogging conference was hugely enjoyable: meeting blog buddies, putting names to faces, feeling I was part of a warm, welcoming community. Travelling alone was something I hadn’t done in a long time: certainly I haven’t stayed [...]

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Brit Mums Live Google + hangouts: Crossing the Chasm

There are a lot of us who are sitting back and watching the Google + social network take form in front of us not knowing exactly what we are supposed to be doing with it, luckily there was a Google + stand at Brit Mums Live with some fabulous experts ready and willing to get [...]

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Health Round-up: Sickness, MOTs & dreaded hay fever

Did everyone enjoy celebrating Father’s Day at the weekend? How about the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations earlier this month? To tell you the truth, the jubilee sort of passed me by. It wasn’t that I wasn’t interested. I got sick. Horribly sick. It’s one of those things that’s just not allowed when you’ve got children! [...]

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My Best Post of The Week

It’s wonderful to see so many people joining in #MBPW and I really do hope you are trying to comment on at least two other posts to encourage commenting. What makes a good comment in your eyes? And how would you take any negative feedback? Interesting thought and I believe constructive criticism is probably one [...]

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