Reviews & Spon

Special Birthday Film Night

Last week there was a little boys birthday in our house. Thanks to the lovely Claire from Cheshire Claire, and talking to her about the successful film night that she had for her son’s birthday a few weeks ago, I decided to copy her and have a few friends over to play for littlest (ahem, more »

We were sent the LeapPad Explorer to review a couple of weeks ago, and because it was so close to middlers birthday, I held off giving it to him until the big day as I didn’t want him to have something so major so close to his birthday. What is the LeapPad Explorer It is more »

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This is a Featured Post This year has been a fabulous year with Interflora for the Scottish Mum Blog. For Mothers Day, Interflora sent me a gorgeous bunch of flowers to review and gave me one to give away. They were absolutely beautiful, and I can’t resist showing you the picture again. There were many smiles in more »

If you are part of the blogger circuit, you may have seen the posts with the hastag #princesbrekkie. It is all about eating healthier, and making breakfast part of our five a day. Princes chose some families and sent us a box full of goodies. In the box was a USB stick with some more »

My mother deserves much much more than she gets. At 76 years old, and with diabetes, arthritis, an underactive thyroid, and as a 7 year breast cancer survivor, she never stops. She drives my adult nephew about almost daily, she helps me with my boys, and she has to put up with more than any more »

When the lovely people at Sea Bands got in touch and asked me to review and giveaway some sets of their products, I jumped at the chance as my eldest suffers quite badly from nausea and queasiness when he is in the car. They arrived in a nice white padded envelope and my eldest more »

To brighten up yet another rainy, miserable day in the Scottish school holiday season, we decided to take the kids for a nice long drive. Heading off in light rain, we got as far as Nairn when we felt the wrath of Mr Raindrops. We carried on to Inverness, but the rain beat us back, more »

Thinking Slimmer and the Future of Suggestion Therapy

I think it is about time that I updated my Thinking Slimmer #slimpod journey. I am now coming up to 5 weeks on the programme. Many of you will have heard a lot about Thinking Slimmer by now, and all about the bloggers who are trialling the mp3 pods that give us the power of more »

I was taken totally out of my comfort zone when I was in London at the Cybermummy Conference on the 26th June. Mixing with a HUGE group of women, none of whom I had ever met before had my stomach growling with the nerves that were threatening to overtake my bold statement at booking myself in for more »

Thinking Slimmer – 1st Week In the Trial

I’ve decided to update my Thinking Slimmer post to let you know how I am going with it. I have even give it a category all of its’ own. At the moment, I am not terribly sure how well it is going. It is still early days in the scheme of the programme. The programme more »

Thinking Slimmer contacted me to see if I would be interested in trying out one of the podcasts that they have to help people to lose weight without dieting. As a blogger, I was aware of the original mum bloggers who trialled the system and I have keenly watched their progress. The programme consists of more »

THIS IS NOT A SPONSORED POST What do you know about bras and Bravissimo? Do you think they are just an expensive lingerie company? Until recently, I was blindly ignorant, and knew very little about bras. I knew I hated all the ones I had worn over the last two decades, and I had spent a small more »

Sponsored Post I arrived home to find a lovely surprise on my doorstep. There were the flowers and box of chocolates that Interflora had sent me to review. When they asked me to review one of their Mothers Day Gifts, I jumped at the chance. We are all mothers, who have mothers, so it is a fantastic more »

Actually can’t complain. Lunch for me and the boy for £6.99 – and it’s quiet. Heaven. Pizza Hut gets my thumbs up today. Staff were fab. Union Square should take a bow. Related Posts:Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. Best of British Show in aid of The ARCHIE Foundation – 25th May 2012Coco Mango Chicken Recipe & more »

I thought it might be fun to write about my most used kitchen gadgets. I’ve already written about my close relationship to the soda stream (here). Favourite gadgets are not always the things you think they are going to be when you buy them. Pre children I had loads of things that were tucked away at more »

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My son bought this 7″ touchscreen table with his own christmas money in Toysrus. Yes, it looked good, and yes, it seemed to be a good purchase when he first took it home. Unboxing it, my son was all excited and wanted to play right away, but I held off, leaving it to charge to allow it more »

One of the things I used to do regularly was buy diet drinks. I was totally addicted to them. I would have a raging headache if I didn’t have any, so it was not good. Last year, I decided that I needed to stop the ridiculous cost that I was spending monthly on drinks if I more »

It’s that time of year again when shops are starting to take away all the year long staple items on their shelves,and replacing them with glittery, twinkling and shiny temptations for Christmas. This year though, one of the hardest toys to find locally are the Tech Deck and Flick Trix finger trick skateboards and bikes. In more »