Posts made in November, 2009
Bebe au Lait Nursing Cover – New Review
Our lovely reviewer Claire and her 5 week old daughter have reviewed the Bebe au Lait nursing cover for Coochie Coo.
Click here to find out how Claire got on and why she liked it so much.
Read MoreMadison Browne – Hello!
We have the welcome banners and party bunting out again as we give a greet our latest addition to the LittleStuff directory; Madison Browne!
Madisonbrowne.com is a luxury children’s wear store, offering the latest collections from the best European designers, including Ralph Lauren, Diesel and Tartine et Chocolat.
They also offer a super superb gift collection, with perfect presents to celebrate new arrivals, birthdays or seasonal greetings.
All purchases are elegantly wrapped and packaged in beautiful gift boxes. They offer same day delivery by uniformed driver and express delivery for Europe and World Wide.
Read MoreWarm Welcome to SonnyandAlfie!
Join us in a toasty warm welcome to SonnyandAlfie.co.uk! They have joined us in the Party Bags section of our oh-so-helpful shopping directory.
Raise a glass (or mug) to SonnyandAlfie.co.uk!
Read MoreLaplandUK – review pics
We were invited to take the whole family to LaplandUK on Saturday. It’s a 3hr drive each way for us, but it looked so special, we thought it would be worth the drive + 4 children (well, okay, ‘I’ thought it would be, Mr Laura was dubious but not unwilling). The review is coming on the main site later today, but here’s some pics from the visit. Was it worth the money (£405)? Well. Tough question, and depends which of the six of us you ask… (see the full review HERE)
A little Gingham might have been handy to hide these Elves Shelves...
Meeting the Sami - he was brilliant, the snow was effective, the green-tree background slightly incongruous.
'Santas Workshop' - where we were to help build the toys...
'Building' the toys...
The very best Elf in LaplandUK, comparing gingerbread notes with Ella and Cam.
Ho ho ho.
The whole review thing…
There’s been not-a-little discussion on the whole review thing around the Mummy Blogging community recently. Now, of course, things are slightly different for us: we are, in fact, a business, and a commercial enterprise. Lovely people though we are, we do actually get paid moolah (small bits of) to feature people on our site (well, 10,000 people visit us every month, so we have to show them something.)
BUT.
(note that it was quite a big ‘but’…)
Wa-a-a-y way back – a few years ago – when we began doing reviews, we decided we needed ground rules. Any product we reviewed HAD to be used. Properly. And that meant in our own families, lived with, driven with, washed and tumbled, dribbled on or wee-ed in – whatever it took to make sure it did what it said it would.
That way we not only admired it from afar, but we also got to know all about its good bits, its bad bits, its quirky bits and its inadvertant hey-its-fab-at-that-too bits.
We have no intention of reviewing every pushchair on the planet to say which is best – we are not interested in comparisons, just in whether one product does its job well for one family. If we like the look of a product, we’ll agree to try it. If we use it and still like it – we’ll say so. If we don’t – well, we used to run it past the company and ask if they still want it published. These days, we put the good ones on the site – but the duff ones (which are so much more fun to write) stay here on the blog, under the ‘secret reviews’ category. There’s not many so far, but more will come…
So. there y’go. That’s what we do with our reviews. And anyone who reads one should be able to see that a) we really have seen the product, b) we really have used it over a decent length of time and c) we’re saying what we really think. To be fair, never yet has a PR ever tried to tell us what to say… Oh, how I wish one would try!
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