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Anyone seen my brain?
August 3rd, 2010

Years ago, I visited a heavily pregnant expat friend living in Sao Paolo, Brazil. I was single at the time, and there was plenty about her pregnancy that I found amusing, surprising and occasionally shocking. Number one was the support stockings she wore, those great white whale numbers no less, to try and contain her [...]

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Stress-free family flying
August 1st, 2010

If you’re brave enough to take to the skies this summer, good luck. And here’s some timely advice from Cheapflights. Their newly-launched ’How-To’ series includes a stress-free guide to travelling with kids. Ahem. Not sure getting airbourne with teenies in tow could ever be described as ’stress-free’, but here are our favourites from their ideas, just in [...]

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Little beach babes
July 28th, 2010

We do like to be beside the seaside, park, garden, lido and pool…

It’s been a tough job, but I’ve thoroughly road-tested this Weekly Review. Just over a year ago, we received a pack of three Sunuva swim shorts and matching UVA-protective vests. Each size had some growing room, and a year on mychildren are still in [...]

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How to stay forever young
July 24th, 2010

Bless. I think. We’re staying with my mother for a few days, and being spoilt rotten with three-course meals and endless cups of tea. But she seems surprised that I know how to use a washing machine, and this morning tried to pour milk for me over my breakfast cereal. Extremely kind, but the cocooning [...]

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Feeding time at the zoo…
July 22nd, 2010

If only I’d read the hand-chalked sign, “Quiet, well-behaved children always welcome” before sitting down. The restaurant was in Fowey, a pretty Cornish fishing village packed with places to eat. Some smart looking with linen tablecloths, others little more than ice cream parlours with a table or two on the street outside. We chose somewhere that [...]

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WIN a family surfing holiday
July 16th, 2010

Summer has arrived, the waves are looking frisky, and angels & urchins is offering the chance to win a three-night break to the north coast of Cornwall.  The Hotel & Extreme Academy’s Learn to Surf break will teach a family of four at Watergate Bay’s Extreme Academy. You’ll also be kitted out with the latest wetsuits, courtesy of Gul.
With its [...]

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WIN a family ticket to the Port Eliot Festival
July 15th, 2010

We’d like to win this. Gorgeous countryside, tipis, and chance to dress up like Kate Moss in boho mode and eat gourmet food all day and night. It’s the Port Eliot Festival (23-25 July), offering an eclectic mix of authors, fashion designers and musicians, held in the grounds of a Cornish estate described by Napoleon [...]

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Here’s to a frugal summer holiday
July 14th, 2010

Loving this summer. The bit of rain that’s fallen over our patch of London hasn’t stopped play, the children probably won’t wear shoes again till it’s time to go back to school and nursery, and the washing machine is turning half as much as usual (there are hardly any clothes to wash when the children [...]

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Bad teachers not a disaster?
July 12th, 2010

 

 

So, bit worried that one of your children’s teachers is delivering the educational equivalent of Rooney’s left foot in the World Cup? Not to worry. Zenna Atkins, chairman of the Office for Standards in Education (aka Ofsted), reassures parents that ‘every school should have a useless teacher’. After all, she follows up: having a bad [...]

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Green Families wins work/family balance
July 9th, 2010

Green Families provides awareness and educational activities about eco-friendly and holistic living for families. It’s a new company that recently won a competition to benefit from a host of business and childcare services from innovative, south-west London-based combined office and childcare space Third Door. We were so interested that we invited founder Jessica St. Clair to [...]

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