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Lemon Meringue Cupcakes

12 August 2010

Lemon Meringue CupcakesThese look very impressive and are definitely ‘grown-up’ cupcakes!  Fresh and tangy they are a perfect summer cake or served as a pudding. Ingredients 115g butter 100g caster sugar 2 eggs 115g self raising flour Grated zest and juice of a lemon 3 tablespoons of lemon curd To decorate 150g caster sugar 2 egg whites  Method for cakes Beat flour and sugar together Beat in egg Add flour Stir in [...]

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Focus on….. Vanessa Blake – dreamgenii®

11 August 2010

Focus on….. Vanessa Blake – dreamgenii®Mum of two, Vanessa Blake, created the award winning dreamgenii pregnancy pillow when she was pregnant with her first child in 2005.  “I was six months pregnant with my son and after weeks of tossing and turning I’d had enough.  I tried every pregnancy pillow on the market and none of them actually worked – the [...]

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How free should our children be?

10 August 2010

How free should our children be?Recently in The Times the weekend section was titled “Who needs Nintendo? How to have an Enid Blyton summer” and was full of some great articles by people like Dr. Tanya Byron and Chris Packham about putting the fun and freedom back into children’s outdoors experience and the value of unsupervised and unstructured play where imaginations [...]

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How to Set Effective Goals

09 August 2010

How to Set Effective GoalsSetting effective goals is an important aspect of any business. Why? When you set a goal you have a destination in mind. A goal is the difference between where you are now and where you want to be. Then how you reach your goal involves putting a series of steps in place. Each step is [...]

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Freebie Friday: Win a game from Orchard Toys!

06 August 2010

Freebie Friday: Win a game from Orchard Toys!For this weeks Freebie Friday we are delighted to have teamed up with Orchard Toys for a great holiday giveaway. Orchard Toys, founded almost 40 years ago, is a leading producer of award-winning educational games, puzzles and activities for children from 18 months to 12 years – and we have lots of their games and [...]

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Keep the Kids Busy for Less this Summer

05 August 2010

Keep the Kids Busy for Less this SummerThe summer holidays are finally here which is great for the kids… but what about the parents? Mums and dads all over the country will be trying to concoct a host of ideas of how to keep the kids entertained for six weeks. Many will also be trying to come up with ideas of how [...]

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Gingerbread Biscuits

05 August 2010

Gingerbread BiscuitsThese are biscuits which I regularly make with my children. I have tried many different biscuit recipes but these are our favourite as they make tasty biscuits that the children will actually eat – not just lick the icing off! Ingredients 175g Self Raising flour ½ tsp bicarbonate soda ½ tsp ground cinnamon 2 tsp caster sugar 50g butter 3 tbsp [...]

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Video Interview: Think BIG encourages Wendy Shand

04 August 2010

Video Interview: Think BIG encourages Wendy ShandAt our July Bedford meeting we were delighted to have as our guest speaker award-winning mumpreneur Wendy Shand, founder of Tots To Travel. As a mum of three Wendy is passionate about encouraging women in business – and particularly mums – as she believes they make excellent business leaders and perhaps more importantly, fabulous role models [...]

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Paper plate fun – Part 2 – Puppets & Masks

03 August 2010

Paper plate fun – Part 2 – Puppets & MasksPaper plates have to the number 1 item to have in your cupboard this summer for those ‘I’m bored’ moments or the second wet day on the run. They are cheap, last for ages and have endless possibilities………..hopefully you will have tried out some of the ideas in Part 1 and are ready for some [...]

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Top Tips for a Good Nights Sleep

02 August 2010

Top Tips for a Good Nights SleepWhen you become a parent your relationship with sleep changes for ever. Add to the mix the added stress of running a business around a family, and it can be all too easy to end up burning the candle at both ends, and sacrificing sleep in favour of ticking off a neverending To Do list. [...]

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Freebie Friday: Win a copy of Bring in on, Baby!

30 July 2010

Freebie Friday: Win a copy of Bring in on, Baby!There are more pregnancy and motherhood advice books on the market than you can shake a Clearblue stick at! Most of them are earnest, some of them are finger-wagging, and others seem designed to make you feel guilty every second of the day. This is not one of those books. Written by Zoe Williams, the Guardian journalist behind [...]

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Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcake

29 July 2010

Strawberry Cheesecake CupcakeCooking is always a fail safe activity to keep the children busy in the holidays. These cupcakes are a delicious treat and perfect for the summer, making good use of fruit that is in season, and which you may even have growing in your own garden. They look great and taste even better! Ingredients 115g butter 115g caster [...]

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Focus on….. Amanda Armstrong – Hill Cottage Bakery

28 July 2010

Focus on….. Amanda Armstrong – Hill Cottage BakeryEighteen months ago, mum of 2 Amanda Armstrong baked lots of cakes and took them out on the road to see if she could drum up business for herself.  She managed to get customers from this madcap marketing idea and has been baking beautiful, tasty cakes for clients in and around Bristol ever since.   At the beginning of [...]

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Internet Marketing Workout #1

27 July 2010

Internet Marketing Workout #1At the start of the month, in our newsletter, we launched the first of our Monthly Internet Marketing Workouts, kindly brought to us by Sally Walker of Walker Media Labs. By her own admission Sally is a bit of a geek!  She likes pressing buttons, messing about with servers, developing new features for applications such as Wordpress, [...]

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Paper Plate Fun – Part 1

27 July 2010

Paper Plate Fun – Part 1Paper plates have to be the number 1 item to have in your cupboard this summer for those ‘I’m bored’ moments or the second wet day on the run. They are cheap, last for ages and have endless possibilities……….. 1.       Favourite food Probably the most obvious and simple idea. Simply get them to draw their favourite food. [...]

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Mum’s The Boss Summer Social Events

26 July 2010

Mum’s The Boss Summer Social EventsMTB groups are all run by busy mums with their own children who know all about the pressures that holidays can bring  – particularly if you are trying to juggle being with the children and keeping on top of things with your business.   Several of our groups have events planned that enable you to stay in touch over [...]

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