Competitions

Win a £50 Brantano voucher to buy your favourite fashion items this Spring

London Mums have teamed up with leading UK footwear retailer Brantano to give you the chance to win a £50 voucher to spend online! With brands like Nike, and Hush Puppies, the lucky winner will be spoilt for choice when shopping the brand’s extensive range. You could treat yourself to a new pair of cosy boots, or how about a pair of practical Wellingtons for family days out? Maybe you could…
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Movies

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: The next biggest sitcom after Friends is now on Netflix

Comedy is certainly the most difficult genre to write and perform. It is easier to make people cry than laugh. I love comedy but after the end of the best sitcom of all times, Friends, I was left there wondering whether I would find another funny and yet engaging TV comedy series again. After years of watching many dramas, thrillers, crime stories, hospital and family dramas, I was longing for a…
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Books

Children's picture books - Spring 2015 Overview

To those who say that the world of paper books is dying off, I’d say brace yourself because this Spring more than ever the book market is over-flooded with original new picture books all with a common denominator: incredibly quirky and colourful illustrations. The up and coming authors get younger and younger and classic authors are revisited in modern adaptations. Why do we love Picture…
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Movies

Film review: Disney live-action Cinderella & new short Frozen Fever

I don’t know anybody (boys included) who hasn’t watched the classic Disney animated film Cinderella at least twice. The expectations for a live-action feature movie were very high and have not been disappointed. The new Disney live-action Cinderella is the truest adaptation to film and more traditional retelling of the classic cartoon fairytale. Here is why London Mums’ believe…
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Message Board

DUE IN EARLY MARCH? Great opportunity and prizes for a London mum-to-be

DUE IN EARLY MARCH? We’re a BAFTA nominated team of new mums working with Bare Films to make a warm short film celebrating the arrival of babies born over the course of one day. We’re looking for a London mum-to-be due in the next few days and happy to let us capture on camera a few special moments on the day your baby is born. The filming will not be intrusive and `the footage will NOT be…
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Competitions

Win 1 of 6 copies of SOOTY ABC – LEARN THE ALPHABET DVD

Join Sooty, Sweep, Soo and Richard in their Alphabet Adventure, a perfect way to introduce little ones to the alphabet. This special direct-to-DVD programme, produced by Redan Publishing’s Fun To Learn brand, Tvoli Entertainment and Abbey Home Media who are also distributing the title, features all the fun, mayhem and slapstick capers fans have come to know and love from Sooty and his pals…
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Competitions

Win 1 of 5 full bundles of all 10 World Book Day £1 books

With only one week to go until World Book Day on 5th March 2015, we thought we’d celebrate with a competition! Five lucky readers are in for a chance to win a set of the specially commissioned World Book Day £1 books – which include Jonny Duddle’s A Pirate’s Guide to Landlubbing and Steven Butler’s Dennis the Menace: World Menace Day. Now in its 18th year, World…
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Travel with kids

Travel with kids: Roadtrip to France

If you feel adventurous during a half term / school holiday you can take the kids on a roadtrip to France. Without much planning we decided to go skiing and sledding for a couple of days on the Mont Blanc on the French side with a few stops along the way. It’s 1000 km one way and you can get there in 15 hours with no stops. However with young children (Diego is 8) this is unthinkable and a…
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Attractions

Mackintosh architecture FREE exhibition inspire kids' own Lego bricks houses

During a Lego event held at the British Institute of British Architects (RIBA) over half term, while my son and other children from the London Mums’ Kids Club were busy creating Lego Friends inspired houses, I visited the FREE Mackintosh exhibition. Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) is famous for being a modernist, symbolist and an exponent of Art Nouveau.
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Movies

Future films heads up: HOT PURSUIT

Brace yourselves London Mums! Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara are soon going to delight us in a movie filled with Girl power. I personally love Reese’s recent choices in films she is choosing to be part of (like Wild). Hot pursuit is a comedy and she is playing a strong female character but not the type of Legally Blond strong. Watch the trailer below and you will understand what I mean…
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