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Is Your Garden Toddler Safe for Summer?
As parents, we’re frequently bombarded with information about how to keep our little ones safe around the home. If you have a toddler roaming around the house you’ll be well versed in baby gates, what to do to keep wires out of the way and thanks to the series of TV adverts running at the moment you should be well aware of the dangers of not keeping washing liquitabs out of reach. But are you equally savvy when it comes to protecting them when they head out into the yard or garden? This post explores some of the safety issues you may want to consider as summer approaches. Supervision and…
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Betta Living Bedroom Transformation
So a few months back I entered a competition for a bedroom transformation that, to be quite honest I had completely forgotten about! It was to win a bedroom transformation of up to £3500 from Betta Living and I think the competition was on Facebook. Well I only blumming went and won it (I still feel in shock now)! At first I was waiting for a catch, like you have to pay for fitting or spend over a certain amount, but nope, unless I wanted to spend more than £3500 I didn’t have to pay anything whatsoever. I wasn’t 100% sure what ‘transformation’ included exactly but I was very excited to…
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The Perfect Parent Brigade
I just had to write this post and although I didn’t know what I was going to write before I started, I knew I had to write something. Most parents by now will have heard of the term ‘Perfect Parent Brigade’. If you haven’t then basically it is a term given (usually over social media) to parents who believe they know better and who tell other parents, basically, how to be a parent. Almost all parents will have been on the receiving end of comments from a member of the ‘perfect parent brigade’ and especially if you became a mum/dad after all the Facebook parenting groups and pages began. Our grandparents/parents were quite…
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My Mum Absolutely Rocked Turning 50!
Last month it was my mum’s 50th birthday and to say she celebrated in style would be an understatement. For a lot of people, turning 50 can be quite, well, depressing. Being older isn’t exactly what all of us want to happen after a certain age, even at 25 I wish my birthday’s didn’t come so quickly! My mum however, embraced turning 50 years young and she fully milked her big birthday as much as possible and why the hell not! Her birthday seemed to go on for weeks and started days before her actual birthday too. She was a popular lady and lots of people had plans of what…
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Could You Be An Airbnb Family?
If you’ve not yet stayed in Airbnb accommodation, chances are you’ve at least heard of the brand. A global sensation, Airbnb developed out of the crowd surfing culture of travellers who used the internet to find more unique places to stay on their travels. Stepping things up a little from sofa surfing, the website has come to be known as a place to find modern apartments for city breaks or quirky accommodation of all kinds. Now operating in 191 countries there are over 2,000,000 Airbnb listings worldwide including 1,400 castles you can choose to stay in! And, while you opt to stay in 34,000 different cities using accommodation on the…
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Filming for Whiteblade
Whiteblade is a new film which is currently in Production and was originally meant to be a short but is now looking to be a full length feature which will be submitted to the likes of Cannes and similar next year. It is a series of stories based on the life of the C7th Anglo-Saxon King, (Saint) Oswald. The pilot episode starts as he comes out of exile to claim the kingdom of Northumbria, culminating in the famous battle of Heavenfield, following the defeat of his cousin, Edwine, by the British king of Gwynedd, Cadwallon. Following on, the series will chart Oswald’s expansion of Northumbria and the many battles ahead of…
