Kids and weddings. A fatal combination?

Let’s be honest, kids + weddings = a screaming toddler in the back of the Church, right as the vicar says, ‘speak now, or forever hold your peace’. Not ideal, really, is it? So are kids and weddings a fatal combination? Whilst it might not be advisable to invite a bunch of screaming toddlers to the ceremony itself (sorry, guys…) there are many ways to keep kids entertained at your

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Happy 8th Birthday MummyBarrow

My blog is 8 today so it is happy 8th birthday Mummy Barrow.   Eight years ago today I took the advice of Sophie at Super Amazing Mum and started telling the stories I’d been sharing on Twitter on my own blog.   As the original tagline said “because 140 characters isn’t enough”.  My first post was called “So this is it” and was cringy when I look back at

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Top tips for summer weddings — Ad

With the warmer spring weather now arriving it is also time for the arrival of invitations to this year’s weddings.   Traditionally wedding invitations arrive around six weeks before the big day though we normally get wind of the event earlier, but when the invite arrives we know we are officially on the guest list and can start our own planning!  Here are my top tips for summer weddings.  

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Need a career change? Here’s how — AD

Need a career change? Here’s how to make it happen This is a collaborative feature   After some years of doing the same thing, we need a bit of a change. It makes sense, though, as a lot of people look for a new place to live and shake up their style a bit once they become bored with it – but, for some reason, it seems like changing your

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How Technology Can Help with Parenting

How Technology Can Help with Parenting This is a collaborative feature Technology has a reputation for damaging parents’ relationships with their children due to children being constantly distracted by televisions, tablets, and phones. We worry that their devices and games are having a negative effect on their ability to concentrate and communicate with us. However, have we really considered the benefits of technology when it comes to parenting? Smart Homes

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My Monthly Binge — March

  I binge watch a lot of TV.  I can no longer be bothered to watch a TV programme and then have to wait a week for the next one (current cases in point: Baptiste and Mother, Father, Son.  Watched one of each and promptly forgot about them and when the next one came on I had forgotten half the plot) so I tend to binge a whole series in

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We need to send more thank you gifts

We need to send more thank you gifts THIS IS A COLLABORATIVE PIECE Don’t you think?  Don’t you think that sending thank you gifts is something we just don’t do enough? Or RGFNPR as Mr B and I call them: random gifts for no particular reason.   Something that just says “I was thinking of you”. Twice this week I have wanted to thank people properly though because they have

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What is a christening and is it still relevant?

What is a christening and is it still relevant? This is a collaborative feature   There is no denying that the number of christenings performed each year has been steadily in decline for the past few years.   Latest figures suggest that it is only 1 in 10 infants are christened, but why is that?   Well it could be because numbers attending church have also been on the decline,

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Supplements and the Menopause

  The menopause really is the gift that just keeps on giving.   I think people were shocked when I listed the recognised symptoms of the menopause in this recent post: My thoughts on the menopause. The idea that the menopause is about more than just periods and hot sweats, that this pesky hormone imbalance can lead to disruptions in so many of the body’s processes is an eyeopener to

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Simple tips to instantly improve family finances. — AD

Simple tips that will instantly improve your family finances Ad — Feature These are challenging times. The world is creeping slowly out of a financial crisis, while domestically, the debate about what is going to happen with the UK exits the EU at the end of March is still generating no end of questions but not so many answers.  Whichever side of that particular debate you might stand on, there

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Solo Cinema Trips

It may surprise you to know that the very idea of going to the cinema alone fills me with abject horror.   Buy a ticket for one and sit by myself?!  I might as well just get a sandwich board with “I HAVE NO FRIENDS” plastered on it and stand in the multi screen car park, surely? Apparently not. I spotted an article in Stylist magazine being shared online yesterday

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The 72 things I learned in 2018 — Part 2

  Welcome to part 2 of what I learned in 2018.  I didn’t mean for this to be in two parts but part one was pushing 3000 words so it was time to split it up before people started reading and feel asleep.  If you missed Part One, click here The world stopped for a while when the news broke that Kate, a mum of two, a daughter, a dear

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