Recipes

Halloween Recipe: Spooky Spider CupCakes

Here is a yummy and good looking Halloween recipe: Spooky Spider CupCakes. Kids will love it as it is rich and it looks really spooky. Preparation time: 25 minutes Cooking time: 18 minutes Serves: 12 Ingredients: For the cupcakes 125g light sunflower spread 125g caster sugar 2 eggs 100g self-raising 25g cocoa powder 1 tablespoon semi-skimmed milk For the topping 120g chocolate spread (we have…
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Events

Wallace & Gromit's BIG Bake 2nd -8th December 2013 - Let's Raise some Dough for sick children in UK Hospitals and Hospices

We need London Mums to roll out your rolling pins, whip out your whisk and preheat your ovens to help us raise some dough for kids in hospitals and hospices. Wallace & Gromit’s BIG Bake is between 2nd and 8th December 2013. Let’s Raise some Dough for sick children in UK Hospitals and Hospices Whether you bake cupcakes or cheesecakes, pies or pastries, brownies or bloomers, or…
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Movies

Film review: BEFORE MIDNIGHT

One of the most acclaimed and celebrated movies of the year starring Academy Award® Nominees Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy, the Sony Pictures Classics romantic drama BEFORE MIDNIGHT, will be available from 28 October 2013 on DVD with UltraViolet from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. It’s a good-feel type of movie that women would particularly enjoy because of its romantic nature as well…
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Recipes

Halloween recipe: Halloween Choco Cobwebs

Here is a very simple and quick Halloween recipe using ready made pancakes: Halloween Choco Cobwebs. They are fun to make and yummy to eat. Ingredients 2 bars of good quality chocolate A packet of chocolate buttons Method 1. Melt the chocolate in a pan with a little water 2. Either put in a piping bag or dribble free hand on to a cold Sweet Dutch Pancake (we used Abra-ca-Debora Sweet…
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Parenting Skills

PARENTS PREPARE FOR JET-LAGGED CHILDREN WHEN CLOCKS GO BACK THIS WEEKEND

While many of us are looking forward to spending an extra hour tucked up in bed this Sunday morning, many parents will be dreading the effect the clocks going back will have on their children. In a survey carried out this week by children’s television show Tickety Toc, which questioned 1000 parents of children aged between 0-5 years, nearly three-quarters (71%) of parents said that the…
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Parenting Skills

National Clocks Go Back Week - Tips to Help your Child Adjust to the Extra Hour

Many people will relish the thought of an extra hour in bed when the clocks go back this autumn. But for many parents with young children this is a far-flung dream! 7pm will become 6pm but worse still 6am will become 5am! Not a pretty thought. Routine is key for children so making the transition as unnoticeable as possible is paramount. So, as part of national Clocks Go Back Week, Naturopath…
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Fitness & Health

Halloween & Bonfire Night tips for pets

As many of us know, our pets are very sensitive to noise and get stressed by the sight and sound of fireworks going off, so here are some suggestions for measures you can take to try and reduce their anxiety and protect them from these events that are fun for us but not at all for them. I am very passionate about divulging this information as I feel for those poor pets who are dragged to noisy…
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Competitions

Win 1 of 2 sets of classic books by E. Nesbit, George MacDonald & R.M. Ballantyne

Hesperus Press are asking members of the public to submit the out of print children’s classic they want to see republished. This October, Hesperus Press is launching a new imprint, Hesperus Minor, which will publish a carefully selected list of well-loved children’s classics introducing them to a new generation. These are nostalgic books which adults of will have fond memories and want to…
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Blog

PUDSEY PRESENTS MOSHI MONSTERS WITH HIS ICONIC BANDANA FOR SUPPORTING BBC CHILDREN IN NEED

Mind Candy announces that it will be supporting BBC Children in Need this year; through a partnership with its children’s brand Moshi Monsters™ raising £100,000 via the Moshi Foundation and a limited edition collector’s tin. To help celebrate the partnership, popular characters from Moshi Monsters, Poppet and Katsuma, have visited Pudsey to be presented with the iconic multi-coloured…
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