- Archive for July, 2012

During the opening ceremony I tweeted about the fact that London 2012 is the first games with female parity and that prompted much discussion.  That combined with the fact that a woman, cyclist Lizzie Armitstead, won team GB its first medal today; women’s football was the first event of the 2012 Olympics; and the personal fact that OH and I ...

We have come to the end of our series of Friday 'Flexible working mums' posts.  To round the series off we thought it would be brilliant to hear from Elinor Wilde, the working mum coach.  She is a brilliant and down to earth lady with some fantastic ideas about how you can manage your commitments and get the most out ...

I don’t know if any of you caught the fascinating 2-part BBC documentary ‘Babies in the Office’ where Private hire car firm Addison Lee invited it’s colleagues to bring their babies in to work with them.  We’ve blogged often on the balance and dilemma of whether to work or stay at home and which you can or cannot afford so ...

More than a Mum is about sharing stories, advice and information which will benefit you as a Mum and a woman and the other day I was recounting a story to Loretta and she said to me that it just had to be a blog post!  To me it was a story of my ineptitude, but according to Loretta there ...

We have been following @TJ_BraLady since very early on in our twitter-witterings.  She is a lovely lady with a great concept.  When she tweeted that she was looking for more "Bra-ladies" we thought she might be interested in telling us a bit about her business.  True to form, TJ put us in touch with one of her bra-ladies so that ...

On Monday we blogged about The cost of children playing sports and quoted Elaine Petch, mum of Olympic medal winning gymnast, Louis Smith. Ben at UBC Media has now sent us a video fetauring Elaine and Louis's story and we thought you might like to see it too. To view the video just click here Elaine Petch, mother of Olympic medal-winning gymnast Louis ...

Dear all, I write this blog as an open letter to all of those of you who have commented on the blog which I wrote to review 50 Shades of Grey.  Thank you to you all for taking the time to write your opinion.  Thank you to those of you who agree with me and also thank you to those of ...

Whenever they have a story of relevance to Mums, children and family life, the lovely Ben at 72point sends us a link to the data.  Last week, Ben sent us a story about how much money it costs to fund your teen through sporting hobbies.  With the Olympics is now only days away, this seemed like an interesting story to ...

Here at More than a Mum, we like to keep current issues and comment on things which are relevant to our readers and at the moment there seems to be a lot of talk about 'MummyPorn' and 50 Shades of Grey.  I usually avoid reading books which zoom up the best-sellers list, as I am a self-confessed book snob.  But, ...

We'd like to introduce you to our latest venture here at More than a Mum.  After holding our 'taster' sessions earlier this year (which included some free pampering for mums) the feedback from those who attended overwhelming told us that not only do mums have very little pampering or 'me-time' for themselves but, they feel guilty if they do.  It ...