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Thank you to the Dad on the train

Dear Dad-on-the-train, Thank you. You see, today you’ve probably gone home and forgotten all about what I am now calling “that incident where Harmie…

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Dear New Mum: You’re doing great

Dear New Mum, You’re doing great. I know you’re tired, and your body aches from birthing the miracle that you carried. But you did…

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Simple Poppy Craft for Remembrance Day

This simple poppy craft is great for toddlers and young children. It uses only cake cases and pipe cleaners, and is a perfect way…

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Refresh your Winter wardrobe with ACE

Top tips to refresh your Winter wardrobe. Get organised for the chillier months and give it a ta-dah moment with the #ACEWinterRefresh challenge!…

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HECK Guy Porks: we review these Bonfire Bangers

Bonfire night bangers anyone? HECK reckon their bangers are damn good. We put their limited edition HECK Guy Porks to the test!…

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Play nice: the parenting pact

Rainbow tower: toddler activity

Baby Harmie playing with the pom poms in our sensory box

How to create a sensory box for your baby

Getting out and about with a baby: Helly holding Ev down a slide

Top 5 tips for being out and about with your baby

Leaving the house with a newborn: Helly cradling baby Ev

Top 10 tips for leaving the house with a baby: all about the prep

Thomas & Friends Room Drayton Manor Theme Park

All aboard our stay in a Thomas & Friends themed room

Bad days (the bath that broke me)

A gloriously comfy hotel bed for my first night away from baby Harmie

Hotel bed of dreams: first night away from Harmie

Ev in his puddlesuit in the garden sniffing a yellow daffodil

Boys will be boys? Or will children just be children?

New Mum Helly cradling newborn Ev hours after his birth

Dear New Mum: You’re doing great

construction toys and images for a toddler activity

Stick your own building site: toddler activity

Sleep deprived parent right here!

Parental sleep deprivation in five stages

Following the pattern: a great toddler activity for developing observation skills

Following the pattern: toddler activity

Lego towers

Matching towers: toddler activity

Harmie the day after her birth

The margarita song: Harmie’s birth story

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