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De Brevren made this video together. #2 did the skating and the editing (with help from his big bro), #1 did the filming and because he’s The Mad Professor, somehow knows tricks to get over the YouTube audio copyright restrictions too (shhh).  I might be biased but I think it’s quite good.  Although mothers of small boys everywhere will be buttock clenchingly aware that the child is moments away...

*NEWSFLASH* The winners are now listed on Eggs Cream and Honey! Contratulations to little Top Ender and Baby Boy who scooped the children’s prize, and lovely Amy Lane who won the overall prize with her delicious strawberry cupcakes! Kids Entry Kids...

I thought you’d like this.  My lovely mates at Busch Gardens are celebrating a new arrival: The as yet unnamed little girly was born at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay on Tuesday 13 July, weighing an estimated 10 stone (ouch!).   Isn’t she cute?

Erica (LittleMummy.com), Jo (jobeaufoix.com), Laura (AreWeNearlyThereYetMummy.com), Liz (kidstart.co.uk/livingwithkids/), Tara (stickyfingers1.blogspot.com), Me Sooooo, back to the ‘Mummy Blogger Trip’ then.  After our animal adventures at  SeaWorld, Busch Gardens, the beautiful Discovery Cove and Aquatica, I thought you might like to hear a bit more about the things that really made us go ‘oooh’....

From left to right: Laura (AreWeNearlyThereYetMummy.com), Erica (LittleMummy.com), me, Apollo the Sea Lion,Tara (stickyfingers1.blogspot.com), Jo (jobeaufoix.com) and Liz (kidstart.co.uk/livingwithkids/) So finally, after ash clouds and delays, weeks of waiting, a very pleasant flight on Virgin Atlantic and three slightly less pleasant hours stuck melting in the baggage reclaim at Orlando Airport because it...

So I’m off to SeaWorld today (yeeee-ha!).  While I and my five amigos are there, we will be meeting rescued manatee, screaming on roller coasters and getting drenched  by Shamu at SeaWorld, swimming with dolphins at Discovery Cove, trying out our skills as elephant keepers at Busch Gardens and whizzing down water slides at Aquatica!  But just so you don’t feel left out, I thought while I’m...

They’re messy.  And often smelly.  They’re noisy, they argue, they snigger, they stay up too late, have last minute shouty homework panics, fill the house with mates and when they’re hungry my kitchen looks like it’s been attacked by a plague of locusts.. But that day?  That day they danced down the aisle because that’s what they thought would make the day really perfect. They...

Firstly, I’d like to say thank you to Innocent Drinks, who sent me a lovely strawberry plant and a set of their new fridge magnets to say sorry that I couldn’t come to their recent open house at Fruit Towers. Secondly, I’d like to point out that my oldest child is taking full advantage of the magnets. How educational!

So my lovely friend Tara has this amazing blog where all sorts of magic happens.  Once a week, Tara (or someone else) suggests a theme and people from all over the world and all walks of life enter photos (old or new) that they’ve taken that fit the theme. This week’s theme is Friendship. You all know I’m not a photographer.  But I am a friend.   I just couldn’t let this one go without...

(Alternatively titled: When will I ever learn to keep my big mouth shut?) So as you know, then, last week I may have been just a teeny bit critical of Figleaves.com and their ‘swimwear for your...