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The obesity issue that is sweeping the UK, USA and many other countries is universally acknowledged, but crash diets seem to be favoured instead of healthy eating that will solve the problem for life. One example of the manner in which attitudes have changed and need to be changed back is the picnic. It offers the perfect opportunity to prepare your own food and eat healthily, but more often than not it is yet another excuse to binge eat anything {Read More}
Cloudbabies is a new TV series for preschoolers shown on CBeebies. It is about four childlike characters, Baba Pink, Baba Yellow, Baba Blue and Baba Green. Who looks after the sky? The Cloudbabies do! Whatever the weather, every morning they jump on their Skyhorsies and begin their busy day’s work looking after the sky and their Sky Friends: Sun, Moon, Rainbow, Fuffa Cloud and Little Star. If you have little ones and watch CBeebies I am sure you have seen {Read More}
PhotoWorld have a huge range of different Photo books from Pocket sized photo books to XXL Landscape photo books, Photo Gifts such as mugs, phone cases, mouse mats and snow globes, Photo prints, posters even stickers, Wall Art, Personalised Cards and Calendars. There is so much to choose from. Photoworld is part of Europe’s largest photo company, CeWe Color, a company with over 50 years experience in perfecting the process of producing the finest quality personalised photo products and they {Read More}
That Socks have just launched an online store where you can buy “odd socks for odd folk.” Yes all of their pairs of socks are odd but all the same style. We were sent two pairs to review, The Modern Gent and Hello Sailor. The Modern Gent socks were Magenta and Cobalt in colour and Hello Sailor were Navy and Mustard. The good thing about That Socks socks are that you can mix them about so I could use the {Read More}
Title: Few Are Angels (Book #1 Few Are Angel Series) Author: Inger Iversen Genre: Paranormal Romance Buy Links: Amazon Kindle|B&N Nook Synopsis: After a fatal hit and run accident, Ella Monroe fears that she’s lost more than her beloved parents. Horrifying visions of a past life and a disturbing voice in her head have psychiatric professionals convinced that she’s lost her sanity as well. But when Kale–a dark and handsome stranger with a mysterious past–reveals the true meaning {Read More}
YumEarth Organics Wishes Moms A Sweet & Healthy Mother’s Day! YumEarth Organics Gummy Bears and Lollipops and YumEarth Naturals Sour Beans are made with real fruit juice and other natural ingredients for mom’s who care. YumEarth thanks all the moms out there for their growing concern to feed their families healthier food, made with organic and natural ingredients like ours. Show your sweet mom you care with the gift of YumEarth Organics treats. YumEarth Organics Gummy Bears and Lollipops are {Read More}
The Blasphemy Box “You know that nightmare you’ve always had? The one where you wake up one day to find yourself fat, frumpy, fifty and alone? I’m living it.” Maddy Nelson has an idyllic existence: a handsome husband, great kids, a comfortable, affluent lifestyle. One morning soon after she turns fifty, however, she wakes up in her San Francisco home to find her husband Steven announcing that he’s leaving her for a woman half her age. And a third of {Read More}
We were sent a copy of Prima Princessa Presents Sleeping Beauty DVD to review. The DVD is the second in the series aimed at children aged 3 – 7 years old. The first DVD was Prima Princessa Presents The Nutcracker (see review here). Prima Princessa presents Sleeping Beauty features The Royal Ballet and each scene is explained in detail in a way that children listen and be involved. After the scene the DVD cuts to a practice of steps so {Read More}
In North America, the rule these days for colors at baby showers and in clothing and nurseries happens to normally be pink is for girls, blue is for boys. However, this was not always so, and still is not so in some areas of the world. It is important to never assume that one thing is a universal, given all the differences in the many cultures. If you are curious as to how these colors came into vogue in North {Read More}
Title: So Frog Author: Dean Russell Illustrator: Chloe Elliott Genre: Children (3+) Length: 32 pages Publisher: Far Far Away Books and Media (8 April 2013) Synopsis: Up and down, over and under, leaping high and hopping all over, So Frog can’t stop! Until he gets tired and guess where he flops? Frog is a real live wire. From first thing in the morning to after teatime, he jumps, skips and hops over the river, in the leaves, through {Read More}
