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12 August 2010
These 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 [...]
11 August 2010
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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10 August 2010
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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09 August 2010
Setting 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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06 August 2010
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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05 August 2010
The 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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05 August 2010
These 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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04 August 2010
At 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 [...]
Posted in Business Tips, Inspiration0 Comments
03 August 2010
Paper 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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02 August 2010
When 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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30 July 2010
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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29 July 2010
Cooking 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 [...]
Posted in Cake3 Comments
28 July 2010
Eighteen 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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27 July 2010
At 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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27 July 2010
Paper 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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26 July 2010
MTB 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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