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This time last year, Loretta and I were reading our Twitter feed and it was full of excited references to the upcoming #BritMumslive.   We were not attending.  We were jealous! This year, thanks to Look Again we have do not have to look on with jealousy, because we too are going to BritMums Live! Look Again is an online shop, perfect for ...

Writer's block; as bloggers I am sure we've all had it. That moment when you need to write something and your brain will not engage. it usually happens when I have left a post until the last minute or am super tired. In my current state of having a 5 week old baby I can envisage this happening more often ...

Welcome to part 7 in our series of inspiring mums who have turned their hobby into a business.  Today Carol Smith tells us how an idea to log her journey with her baby daughter became a successful business for her. 1) What is your hobby? Blogging 2) Was this a hobby you started when you became a mother or something you have always ...

We're now up to part 5 in our series about mums that have made money from their hobbies.  Today's post is provided by Chelle McCann from Social Sparkle... 1) What is your hobby? Blogging, tweeting - love anything social media 2) Was this a hobby you started when you became a mother or something you have always done? It started when I was ...

The lovely people at Virgin Money Travel gave us some tickets to London Zoo and asked us to go enjoy ourselves and write about it - an offer we were not about to refuse! We could not have had more perfect weather for the day with a clear blue sky, bright sunshine and crisp, fresh air.  London Zoo is situated in ...

Sarah came to our More than a Mum course last March.  She was  keen to start something for herself; perhaps as a hobby; perhaps as a business.  A little while ago she contacted us again having started up some websites.  Today she has written us a guest blog to share her experience so far; hopefully inspire some of you to have ...

Ooh we do love a good meme here at MTAM and this week we were tagged by the lovely ‘Mummy of many talents’ (Claire Sarcone aka @clairelouise82) So here are Claire’s 11 questions that I’m (Loretta) to answer: 1)    If you had the power to make one thing better, what would it be? Ok so I’m going to sound a bit like a ...

So we were tagged over a week ago in a fab meme and I’ve finally got round to doing it and what a lot of fun I’ve had tonight!!!  Thank you Shareen - (@realmummydiary). The rules are simple: Put your MP3 player/iTunes/iPhone/wherever your MP3s are on Shuffle Take note of the first five tunes that pop up Tag some more lovely bloggers to do ...

We got round to watching this week’s Doctor Who on Sunday evening. After a hectic, but fun family Sunday with old friends, which entailed stopping toddlers from fighting and trying to make them eat, we settled in for an iPlayer moment and a hot chocolate. (It’s just so rock and roll in our household!).  I was trying not to keeping ...