Travel with kids

Switch up Holiday Travel Routes with these different ideas

When we’re looking at booking a dream holiday, the most typical travel routes will likely involve an economy-class plane ticket. This is arguably the most efficient way to get to our holiday destination because it’s inexpensive (most of the time) and it’s fast. There’s no other form of transportation that will get us to where we want to be in a shorter time. However, that doesn’t mean…
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Parenting Skills

Psychologist on How to Prevent Post-Halloween Nightmares

Counselling Psychologist, Dr Susie Dawson, offers her five best tips on how to help prevent post-Halloween nightmares, in collaboration with Happy Beds. The aftermath of Halloween and the new lockdown may mean that children will take longer to get to sleep, or wake up in the middle of the night with nightmares, due to watching too many scary films on the weekend, or even due to just hearing the…
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Movies

Film review: A CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM BOB

After such a dramatic year, we all need a feline-good movie. The one that will bring a smile to us all has to be A Christmas Gift from Bob,the ‘purrfect’ Christmas sequel to the international hit film A street cat named Bob. A Christmas Gift from Bob isalso based on the true story ofJames Bowen and his best ginger furry friend Bob on their new journey together. It is…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Mumpreneur’s testimonial: When children’s memories inspire business ideas – The story behind Eternally Cherished jewellery

Over the years I have come across amazing women who have created businesses from their kitchen tables. An inspirational story and a great mumpreneur’s testimonial is the one of ErinParnell who created her Eternally Cherished jewelleryto make keepsakes to treasure her daughter’s early memories. What urged you to become an entrepreneur? I have always been highly…
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Cultur-Italy EzineTravel with kids

Travel with kids: From London to Lucca

London Mums’ globetrotter reporter Rita Kobrak has told me her lovely travel story, which I am delighted to share here. Enjoy! “Four years ago, my husband and I spent a half-term break in Lucca, a stunning, walled city close to Florence and Pisa. That holiday changed our lives, as shortly afterwards we left London and moved to Italy with our then 9-years old daughter, Alessia…
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Product reviews

Sleep better, Live longer

With so much heartache, upheaval and stress inthe world in 2020, we as a nation are finding ourmental wellbeing under more strain than usual. Likemost people, during lockdown this year, I drasticallyreduced my fitness activities. As a result, I developedlower back pain which prevented me from having agood night’s sleep and high productivity at work.
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Attractions

10 Things to do around London after lockdown

Life right now is not normal. With sweeping lockdowns set to kick in throughout the United Kingdom later this week, much of the country is looking forward to the day where the lockdown will once again lift. Whispers of a COVID-19 vaccine are circulating throughout the world, giving us hope of a new world of normalcy. Travel and tourism have halted worldwide, as has domestic travel. Activities we…
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Product reviews

Bringing alive the magic of storytelling this Christmas with tonies®

As children are spending a greater amount of time at home due to current restrictions throughout the UK, the Toniebox offers playful, imaginative storytelling and learning, giving parents a much needed break when they want it. With many children unable to go to nurseries and playgroups, parents now have the opportunity of re-creating the fun of a classroom this autumn with Tonies and a Toniebox.
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Movies

Film review: Roald Dahl's The Witches

It’s always risky to adapt a Roald Dahl’s novel to the big screen because we all have individual memories of his stories that we treasure. I have rarely liked any Roald Dahl’s adaptations – with the exception of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp – but Roald Dahl’s The Witchesstarring Anne Hathaway as the Grand High Witch is well made…
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Get Creative

Pumpkin pitfalls: 5 recycling ideas for your Jack-O-Lantern this Halloween

While making a Jack-O-Lantern might be a great Halloween tradition, research shows only a third of people who buy a pumpkin to carve actually cook with it. Worse still, the UK bins an average of 8 million pumpkins every year. This adds up to the equivalent of enough pumpkin pie to feed the entire nation. As a result, SkipsAndBins.com have pulled together 5 ways you can reduce pumpkin waste this…
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