Wooden Activity Cube from (whisper it) Tesco

Last week in my local Tesco, I could only follow obediently as my shopping trolley took a right hand turn into the toy aisle. Expecting the usual selection of plastic fantastics stacked to the ceiling, I was surprised to discover that Tesco has a line in low-price wooden toys. (After a nanosecond of further thought, [...]

Maternal Myopia – Standards Are Slipping

This week Emily shares another humourous insight into the world of multiple parenting, explaining how your standards relax (collapse) with each additional child…. Mothers of multiple children, whether born singly or in sets, will acknowledge that their standards slip a little with each child. Prior to the birth of your precious first-born, the heralded arrival [...]

Scandinavian style from John Lewis

Life is full of surprises and here’s another one: John Lewis have got some Skandi style going on in the baby clothes department! You can bag two pairs of striped baby trousers for only £7 in sizes newborn, 0-3 or 3-6 months. If you like the matchy thing, a pack of two tshirts will set you back [...]

Hot Toybox Buy! Habitat Storage Box

After a recent shopping trip, my other half and I agreed that Habitat is totally on top of its game at the moment. The store was chock full of stylish swag. We could have come home with a boot full, but managed to exercise restraint and stick to things we actually needed rather than just [...]

The hypocrite’s off to Disneyland

This week Mothership, our Brit mum in the US finds herself putting aside her anti-Disney ways for the love of her daughter… As you may or may not know, I am a loud and vocal critic of all things Disney and rarely miss an opportunity to descry Walt’s retrousse-nosed, D-cup princesses and their passive, sanitised, [...]

Noonies (TM) – Super Cozy Swaddling Blanket

These super soft swaddling blankets have a great design that babies love. It keeps them warm and cozy as the outside is made from 100% cotton while the lining is luxuriously soft and made from minky. The fabric choices are great and available in a wide range of colours and patterns, while coordinating buttons allow [...]

The Travelling Circus: Flying With Children

This week Emily reminds us of the chaos of flying with children and offers up some handy tips for helping you get to the other end in one piece with your sanity (just about) intact…   I love flying. I love everything about it; people-watching at the airport, shopping for duty-free, running to the gate in [...]

Laser Cut Custom Designs at Ponoko

Ponoko is a site that specialises in laser cut designs, created for both buyers and sellers. They have the capability to take your custom designs and create laser cut creations from even a simple sketch. If you’re really ambitious you can even create your own store through their website to sell your wares. Alternatively, if [...]

The Pushchair Track: Bugaboo Gecko Review

We’ve long touted the Bugaboo Bee here at BG, which aside from being super stylish and more compact is actually lighter on your wallet than the famous Chameleon. There is another alternative (a bit of a blast from the past) though in between the two as Emma explains… Concept: The Bugaboo Gecko is the Chameleon’s [...]

Toffee Moon

Elli writes… Toffee Moon is a new luxury baby brand which specialises in soft and sweet clothes for babies from newborn to one year. Browsing the range took me back to those early baby days when you’re wrapping your precious little one in snuggly natural fabrics in a palette of creams, pale pinks and pale [...]

Child Hierarchy – In Order of Importance

This week Emily ponders whether you can avoid the hierarchy that affects how you celebrate and commemorate each of your children… As a child I loved flicking through my parent’s photo albums; laughing at the fashions of the sixties and marvelling at the wallpaper of the seventies. There were literally hundreds of snaps of a [...]

Naked Peggies – In the Likeness of Your Family!

Naked Peggies is a shop on Etsy that custom paints wooden peg dolls. The really cool thing about Naked Peggies is you can send in a photo of your family and the artist will paint the peggies to represent you! That’s right! From donning your favorite threads, hairdo and glasses, and even including the family [...]

Brit Mum Does American Easter

This week Mothership, our Brit mum in the US lets us in on her full on (yet eco friendly) Easter preparations… Today was spent in focused preparation for all things Easter which, as is usual for every holiday, involved trying to explain to Four why I wasn’t going to spend our weary and increasingly pathetic [...]

Hot Picks from…Vertbaudet

I’m in the market for nursery shelving and found some good options at Verbaudet. A favourite is this Boys Guitar Wall Shelf, although I can’t see why it’s in the ‘boys’ category. Girls can be rockstars too, no? £19. Because Verbaudet is a fab site, I will forgive it for rather spuriously (in my eyes) [...]

Chef Marshall Easter Egg Head

This milk chocolate easter egg with a similar likeness to the old Mr. Potato head dolls, gives a whole new meaning to the term “playing with your food”. This time you’ll want your kids to play with it (on a well covered area of the kitchen table of course)! This 300g milk chocolate egg comes [...]

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