Activities

Creative Women's Network event: Becoming Camera-Ready 18 July 2018

Join the 3rd Creative Women’s Network, regular events founded by the renowned bloggers and authors Maggy Woodley of Red Ted Art fame and Vicki Psarias of Honest Mum. Learn how to become camera-ready from expert guests including Ab Fab star Harriet Thorpe and garner insight into the importance and rise of video in social media and how best to maximise your reach and visibility. Connect and…
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SENsational Tutors and Westminster City Council launch FREE back to school Summer Camp for Westminster children

SENsational Tutors Ltd., London’s leading Special Needs tuition company, has received funding from Westminster City Council to provide approximately 20 children in Westminster with a FREE place at its SENsationally Fun Summer Camp this August. Geared towards combatting summer learning loss, the Summer Camp, will be run by a team of qualified teachers and learning and behaviour specialists and…
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How to create a Summer-ready family garden

Summer is just around the corner. This year, the summer solstice, which marks the official start of summer, takes place on 21stJune. This brings with it warmer temperatures and longer daylight hours, which means greater demand for green spaces. The most important green space of all is, of course, your own garden. When the migration from indoors to outdoors takes place, you want to be sure that…
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How to transform your kids' bedroom on a budget

This blog post looks into ideas on how to transform your kids’ bedroom on a budget. Every now and then, you may feel motivated to give your child’s room a makeover, but what if you haven’t got the budget you’d like? Re-decorating isn’t often gentle on the bank account, especially when lots of new furniture is involved. Fortunately, there are things you can do to transform your…
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Royal Wedding galore including art and craft ideas - Make Your Own Harry and Meghan Wedding Dolls & Jewellery

To celebrate the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, millions of British royal fans will throw street parties and eat delicious food. A royal wedding is only a good excuse to get closer to neighbours we never talk to or make new friends in the local communities. It’s a great opportunity to get creative with the kids so we have tried some new crafts inspired both by my super…
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How To Create A Family Friendly Garden In London

Lots of people assume that if you live in London you don’t get to have a garden, but in reality,nearly 15% of Greater Londonis garden green space. This shows that it is entirely possible to havea family home with a gardenin the city – although admittedly your garden may be a little smaller than gardens outside of the city! If you want to transform your outside space…
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Easter break activities on a budget

Easter break family fun does not need to be expensive at all. Read London Mums top holiday activities includingindoors and outdoors entertainment which will cost you close to nothing. Watch a movie As for the first part of the Easter break there’s a bad weather forecast I suggest you look in your DVD library for your favourite family films and stay inside nibbling healthy snacks…
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Spring Easter break family activities in London

This Winterhas been too long and cold andI really look forward to this Spring – Easter break. It will be good for children too to be off school and get themuch-needed mental energy to face thefinalrushbefore the Summer. I alsoknow that for mums it will be a challenging time tryingto entertain the little (and less little) ones for almost three…
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Shakespeare Week: Life back then - A day with William Shakespeare in Stratford Upon Avon - Time-travelling child reporter goes back to 1599 to meet the famous playwright

Recently I boarded the time travel machine to meet the greatest playwright of all time, William Shakespeare, in Stratford Upon Avon where he was born in 1564 and where he now (in 1599) lives in his New House residence. Mr Shakespeare gave me a tour of his father’s house to give me an idea of how it was like living in Elizabethan England. He was one of eight children but only four survived…
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Interview with William Shakespeare by time travelling child reporter Diego

To celebrate Shakespeare Week as part of my Shakespeare Research Projectfor English in year 7 in secondary school I was recently asked to do an interview with William Shakespeare so I had to go back in time to do it. I headed to Stratford Upon Avon during half term and did just that. This is the result of my chat with one of the world’s best talents. The time travel machine has…
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