Fashion & Beauty

Fashion advice for mums who are sick of feeling frumpy

As mum, you probably already know a fair bit about fashion. But no matter how many magazines you peel through, you still feel annoyingly frumpy. You can’t bust out of your current situation. In this article we go back to basics. We look at some of the basic style principles that you need to employ if you want to put an end to the frump and live your best life yet. Photo by chelsea…
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Parenting Skills

Father's Day: 1 in 10 Brits voted Tom Hanks as the No.1 movie father figure

Every year, we look forward to treating our Dads on Father’s Day, and this year it’s more important than ever after months of lockdown.Father’s Day falls on this Sunday, 20th June, and to celebrate, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has commissioned research into the film habits and cinema favourites of people across the UK. The new survey – conducted with 2003 U.K. adults…
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Schooling

The Independent Schools Show on Tuesday, 22nd June 2021

The Independent Schools Show brings together 55 leading independent schools from London and the country to the Hurlingham Club on Tuesday,22nd June. Don’t miss the opportunity for those all important, in depth, face-to-face discussions with senior admissions staff and headteachers that are hard to fit around whistle-stop group school tours at open days. The Fair is organised…
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Fitness & Health

Mental Health assessments

Everyone experiences episodes where they are unable to make decisions, whether they are tired and overworked, or an illness has impaired their mental capacity. Patients are defined as unable to make sound decisions when: they are unable to retain information long enough, they don’t understand the decision that is being asked of them, or if they are severely mentally disabled. To assess a…
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Parenting Skills

Cuddles, kisses and chatter: The top things grandparents have most missed out on

It’s hard to quantify all the things that have been missed over the last year, but new research out today shows that grandparents have been hit particularly hard – missing out on 49 hugs, 47 kisses, 40 conversations and 25 family meals with their grandkids since the start of the pandemic. WATCHthe emotional moment the first grandparents Granny Lou and Big Grandad Nick from…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Career tips: How to advance a nursing career

Are you happy being a nurse? How long have you been a nurse for and are you still enjoying what the job offers? Are you still getting the job satisfaction that you signed up for, or has it waned off? Do you now feel that you simply exist within your role as opposed to making a change and a difference? It is easy to get stuck in a rut when nursing, as busy shifts and putting others first all the…
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Fitness & Health

Reintegration anxiety: tips to support emotional wellbeing to bust post-pandemic stress 

I think I can speak for the majority of parents when I say that the pandemic has been stressful trying to manage online schooling, smart-working, while keeping a decent level of fitness and healthy habits to prevent depression. Lack of motivation has been a key thing too, linked to the lack of socialisation. We are social creatures and we need other people to function at our best. Yet now that…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Exclusive chat to Americana rock star Amy Speace about bringing up baby and making music

I have recently had a chat to Americana rock star Amy Speace about bringing up baby and making music. What first got you into music? The family rumor is that I sat down at my grandmother’s piano at age 3 and plunked out “Mary Had A Little Lamb”. That may or may not be true. However, my parents wanted me to start lessons and nobody took me until I was 5. I studied piano until I was 16.
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Fitness & Health

How do we clean in 2021

If lockdown has had any single benefit to our lives, it’s that it has made us far more conscious about cleanliness and hygiene. It’s hard to believe that it was not two years ago when someone may have gone from the supermarket to the bus to the home – all without the thought of sanitising their hands or wearing a mask. The rush for cleaning products caused empty shelves across the country…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

My chat with rock mum Lulu Ash on her debut album Circles

I love soulful creatures and musicians are possibly my favourite people to interview and to be around. Here’s one of my latest chats from my interview series My mum is a rock star: Lulu Ash is a mumpreneur and a sing-songwriter who gave me some vocal coach lessons. Today, she releases new song “Never Be Mine” from her debut album, “Circles”. Tell me about Circles. Lulu: We have…
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