Competitions

Win 1 of 2 pairs of tickets to the Spirit of Christmas Fair (4-9 November 2014, Olympia)

The home of Christmas shopping is just around the corner and we are offering two lucky winners, a pair of tickets each to the Spirit of Christmas Fair – sure to sort all your Christmas shopping needs. The Spirit of Christmas Fair launched in 2001, has an exciting new collection of independent boutiques and emerging design talent, the Spirit of Christmas Fair is a chance to indulge in an…
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Tested & Recommended

THE LONDON MUMS BEAUTY BOX SUPER OFFER - LIMITED AVAILABILITY

London Mums have teamed up with the brilliant natural brand Weleda to bring you an outstanding box of beauty care products worth over £100 for just £20 + P&P! You can only buy a maximum of 3 boxes per person. Please allow 28 days for delivery, terms and conditions apply – full details at www.allboxedup.co/londonmums. It’s an ideal beauty box for mums and children at a fantastic…
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Activities

The Enchanted House presents The Parent-Child Relationship Spa

There’s a new kind of Spa in town, the first ever Parent-Child relationship Spa from the Enchanted House team at The London Art House Islington. Like all spas, it’s a wonderful pampering environment but uniquely designed to enhance parent- child bonding and brain development. Babies and children up to nine years of age are welcome. No actual Jacuzzis or saunas, but sensory rooms for parent-…
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Fitness & Health

Tips to help children with Asthma

According to the charity Asthma UK more children with asthma are rushed to hospital when school starts than at any other time of the year. One of the main culprits in this increase in attacks seems to be that many children forget to use their preventer inhalers over the summer holidays; as a result this leaves them much more vulnerable to asthma attacks at the start of the autumn term when the…
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Movies

Top 5 Tips to Chillax and Forget our FoMo

Talking in acronyms is a hideous habit and one that teenagers have picked up quite quickly. I am a linguist and love languages in their purity and beauty. But there’s one acronym that so much summarises my own frequent state of mind that makes me want to use it abundantly: FoMo aka ‘fear of missing out’. Especially London Mums suffer from this condition. We live in a city that…
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Competitions

WIN 1 of 10 WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY prize bundles

To celebrate David Tennant’s new heart-warming comedy What We Did On Our Holiday, in cinemas NOW, London Mums is giving 10 readers the chance to a prize bundle featuring a picnic basket, and notebook and pen! About What We Did On Our Holiday: From the creators of the hit BBC comedy series Outnumbered – What We Did On Our Holiday is a heart-warming, uplifting comedy for all the…
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Fashion & Beauty

Fashion Trends: Women’s Spring / Summer 2015

Every season we all await for the fashion trends that will make us go crazy when shopping for new handbags or clothes. We have identified the four hottest fashion trends in Women’s Spring / Summer 2015.  Designer Charlotte Ronson with models during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2015 at The Pavilion at Lincoln Center on September 5, 2014 in New York City. Photo by Fernanda Calfat/Getty…
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Fitness & Health

Health in the City: Fertility and Infertility

London Mums have joined forces with BMI Healthcare to encourage women in London to be more aware of the issues surrounding their health and wellbeing in the capital. In this article we look at the issues of fertility and infertility. Subfertility and infertility can broadly be described as a couple or individuals inability to conceive. It is not uncommon for a couple that desires to have a…
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Recipes

Recipe: Roasted butternut squash soup

Great and simple recipe for roasted butternut squash soup. A satisfying supper for those chilly winter nights. Suitable for vegetarians Serves 4 Ready in 1 hour, 15 minutes Ingredients * 25g sunflower seeds * 1 small butternut squash, about 700g, halved and with seeds scooped out * 25g butter * 1 small onion, chopped * 1 large potato, peeled and diced * 1 litre vegetable stock * 142ml pot…
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Fashion & Beauty

Why do we love Vintage Fashion so much?

Why is vintage fashion back on trend? Why do we feel so drawn to fashion from the 50s and 60s? Call me crazy but I am the kind of girl who feels really nostalgic about those amazing two decades after WW2 when people rebuilt their homes, their confidence, when there was so much optimism for the future, when there was very little technology and every new gadget was rather seen with scepticism to…
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