Baby & ToddlersBlogChildcareParenting Skills

Tips on how to deal with a babysitter when you leave your child for the first time (by guest blogger Georgie Jones)

As every new mother knows, leaving your child with someone new is a scary experience. Every bone in your body says your baby should be with you, but there comes a time when you must take the plunge and allow yourself a well-deserved break and some ‘me time’. We often get asked by parents of ways in which to make the experience easier and there are definitely some easy tips that will help…
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BlogMessage BoardMumpreneurs & Mums at work

Seeking: Forever Living Product Representative (flexible job opportunity)

Flexible job opportunity – ideal for mums and mumpreneurs – Seeking: Forever Living Product Representative. What is Forever Living? Forever Living was founded 1978 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. They currently have more than 2.6 USD billion in turnover, and have assets of more than $1.5 billion (cash rich & totally debt free). The company manufacture Aloe Vera based products, and…
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BlogCompetitions

Win a family meal worth £80 at a Giraffe restaurant - enter this competition by 20th June 2011

We have partnered with Giraffe restaurants to offer you an amazing family meal to the value of £80 at one of Giraffe’s venues of your choice. For a chance to win, please register to this website and let us know what is your all time favourite dish. Deadline to enter 20th June 2011. For further information about Giraffe’s restaurants, visit the website www.giraffe.net Facebook fan…
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BlogFeeding the FamilyParty tipsRecipes

Sticky Banana and Chocolate Tart - Light a Birthday Candle for Lumos **Recipe** donated by Gino D’Acampo

Sticky Banana and Chocolate Tart – Light a Birthday Candle for Lumos **Recipe** donated by Gino D’Acampo to charity founded by Harry Potter author JK Rowling. Sticky Banana and Chocolate Tart Ingredients 50g salted butter 120g golden caster sugar 6 firm large bananas, peeled 100g chocolate chips 250g ready-to-roll puff pastry Plain flour, for dusting 1 tub good-quality vanilla…
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BlogTravel with kidsWeekends

VIENNA – Music Box and Princess Town by Barbara Grüll-Cação

Where to go in Europe for a short break with kids? Exclusive article by guest blogger Barbara Grüll-Cação of travel portal Vienna Unwrapped and mother of two (Moritz, 3 and Matilde, 6 years) shares her tips on what to do with kids in her native town Vienna. Vienna is so grown up: the Vienna Opera House, Schonbrunn Palace, the Spanish Riding School, the sumptuous Ringstrassen Hotels, the…
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Recipes

Chocolate Brownies by Jane Asher - Bake for Lumos!

Chocolate Brownies by Jane Asher – Recipe kindly donated for the Light a BirthdayCandle for Lumos! a charity campaign founded by Harry Potter author JK Rowling. CHOCOLATE BROWNIES Ingredients 100g/ 4 oz/ 8 tbsp butter 75 g/ 3 oz/ 2/3 cup plain flour 40 g/ 1 oz/ 1/3 cup cocoa powder 2 medium-sized eggs, lightly beaten 225 g/ 8 oz/ 1 cup caster sugar Finely grated zest of 1…
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BlogCompetitions

Win 1 family ticket to 'Flying Monsters (3D)' at BFI and to Dinosaurs Unleashed at the O2

London Mums has teamed up with BFI and the O2 to give away 1 family ticket to ‘Flying Monsters (3D)’ at BFI Imax (Waterloo) and to Dinosaurs Unleashed at the O2! Amazing! Email us via the London Mums website by the end of June 2011. Dinosaurs Unleashed at the O2 have joined forces with the BFI IMAX to offer you the chance to win tickets to see Flying Monsters 3D www.bfi.org.uk on…
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BlogCompetitions

Win 1 of 2 sets of family tickets to see Born To Be Wild, 3D PLUS a baby elephant and orang-utan (cuddly soft toy)

Our friends at the BFI have offered us 2 sets of family tickets to see the film PLUS the chance to win your own baby elephant and orang-utan (cuddly soft toy). To enter simply register online and email us what’s your favourite animal and why. Deadline mid July 2011. Don’t miss the chance to see Born To Be Wild, 3D on the biggest screen in Britain this summer at BFI IMAX , London.
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ActivitiesBlogNewsletter

Summer 2011 Newsletter

Dear London Mums The London Mums summer/autumn 2011 magazine is finally out!! You can either get it by post, picking it up at our selected locations across London, at your schools/nurseries, clinics and now you can read it online and download it as a pdf. You can also download all our https://new.londonmumsmagazine.com/magazine”>back issues for free from a dedicated section online…
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