Research carried out earlier this year by OnePoll.com found that the typical female owns 13 bras but only wears eight of them regularly. With the average bra costing £28.00, that’s £3.47 billion worth of bras doing nothing! bras4mums are offering women the chance to get these ‘old’ bras doing good elsewhere. Tracey-Jane Hughes, who also [...]
The Science museum in London are currently asking people to answer specific questions around the topic “Who Am I” and have asked us to ask you for some asnwers… So help them out please! Here’s your question – What is your earliest memory? I’ll start off – mine is being weighed. Seriously. I remember being [...]
We recently ran a competition to win two family passes to the Port Eliot family festival (worth over £360). The oh-so-lovely Claire from www.beingamummy.co.uk was the winner of the Twitter comp, but sadly she can’t make the festival. Now, being oh-so-lovely as she is, she had a brainwave, and decided to donate the family pass [...]
There we were, splooshing in the pool, like you do when you’re on holidays and have absolutely nothing better to do. We had ventured into the area the boys nicknamed ‘the hot tub’ – a round circular pool, chest height on me, with a wide bench running around its edge which was perfect for Pink [...]
… and give away a lot of prizes. Some big, some small, but all carefully sourced by us to be interesting and appealing. But we get very few lovely mails like this one… Just to let you know prize arrived today and my 6 year old daughter is having a whale of a time with [...]
Silver Cross has just launched a new website www.silvercrossdaysout.co.uk – and is inviting all families with young children to visit it, comment on their experiences of days out and read other reviews. The aim is to enable people to discover the very best venues, near to them, for a fun family day out. To help [...]
I just received a press release, and whilst we’re usually all about the positives, I simply had to share its hideous awfulness. “On the hour, the clock will sound with a football whistle followed by the roar of the ecstatic crowd as the character emerges from inside the clock and kicks a match winning goal.” [...]
Shocked by the news reports regarding the little baby who was exposed to too much sun last weekend at Brighton I think we all need to be aware of how fierce the sun can be – even in the UK. Most people think sunburn is something that happens on holiday – but most cases of [...]
I read this article in the Guardian this morning two days ago (see? If I was a Proper Mum this post wouldn’t have been sitting as a draft for two days) sighing and nodding and feeling slightly cheered. So – apparently it’s not just me then? See, I don’t really mention this stuff much. My [...]
Eight Silver Cross prams are among the star lots that have been donated by the winners of the recent BRIT Awards, and Silver Cross to raise money for War Child, the BRITs’ official charity partner. Lily Allen opened the 30th Anniversary show with an unforgettable performance of ‘The Fear’ before taking home the award for [...]
