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Hi, I’m Lucy, a 40 year old mum of two from Birmingham. A memory maker, tradition keeper, stationery addict and book lover. HR Advisor by day, content writer and sleep deprived Mama by night!
Here you can expect to find honest and impartial reviews of products and services that make parents’ lives easier. Thanks for stopping by – feel free to have a look around!
It's time to think about Sugar Free February. The night before the morning after. A night when I am fully justified in having a small *ahem* large bowl of jelly babies. January is FINALLY coming to an end. It has been a long month. I don't know about you, but I will...
Introduced in 2014, Shared parental leave was introduced as a way to improve flexibility for new parents. Under the regulations, new parents are allowed to split up to 52 weeks of leave between them in up to three separate blocks. At the time of its introduction, it...
Welcome to the first Little Leaps Linky - my new fortnightly Linky celebrating all things developmental. Your posts can be celebrating your child's first words, steps or foods, a monthly update, your experience of a developmental challenge such as teething or sleep...
In just 3 weeks time, the biggest event in February's social calendar will be upon us.... The day that all the singletons dread, and those in the 'honeymoon period' gloat about... but what about the rest of us? For those in long term relationships, and with one or...
#TheBigParentingDebate Parenting is one topic on which you can guarantee EVERYONE has an opinion. Parents or not, EVERYONE seems to have a view on the "right" way to raise a child, creating a wealth of conflicting view points on how best to approach every parenting...
Another week has flown by, and I am back to join in with Living Arrows, the Linky from What the Redhead Said which is all about celebrating childhood. The project originally took it’s name from a poem by Kahlil Gibran, “You are the bows from which your children as...
Hello and welcome to my brand new Linky - Little Leaps! Little Leaps will run fortnightly, opening on a Friday and staying open for 7 days. The Little Leaps Linky is all about milestones and development, linking up posts that either: Celebrate key milestones,...
Growing Your Own Those of you who read about my big Garden Project will know that as a family we have invested a LOT of time and money into our garden. When we first moved in, our garden was a complete bomb site, and was not only a health & safety risk but just...
Recall - Thornton's Chocolate Santa Thorntons are recalling their Hollow Milk Chocolate Jolly Santa (200g) due to a potential plastic contamination, which could pose a potential risk to consumer safety. The product details are as follows: Product: Thorntons Hollow...
I was quite sad to read an article published in the Guardian today about the state of Maternity Care in the UK. A survey conducted by the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) and childbirth charity the NCT, resulted in comments of women being "treated like...
