BIC are inviting children from aged 5 to 11 to submit their drawings over at Mumsnet website and be in with a chance to win one of ten £50 BIC bundles and get their artwork featured on a billboard in their hometown.
LG KizON Wristband Phone Review
How would you like to be able to call and track your young child by a press of a button to give you peace of mind? Sound like a great right? Indeed! LG KizON are finally coming to UK and we are amongst the first in the UK to try it on!
This LG KizON is a wearable designed (pink & blue) exclusively for pre-school and primary school children that gives you a simple and convenient way to communicate with your child. This has been designed specifically for children to wear on their wrists to be used as a direct communication device with their parents and guardians. My 7 year old son was very impressed and he thinks this looks like a ‘spy’ watch. Instead of holding a phone next to his ear, he can easily communicate by talking to his ‘watch’! His friends were impressed and they all wanted to press the call button to make a phone call. So yes, I have received a lot of missed calls from him and his friends trying to work out this cool gadget!
My Leftover Challenge with Knorr
As a SAHM, I always plan our meals and try to make sure that nothing goes to waste. But during the festive season, it is easy to go overboard and buy too much food, ‘just in case’.
I am so excited to join Mumsnet and Knorr to create my own recipes or to try out Knorr recipes to do this challenge. I decided to make up my own recipes.
The Croods
Earlier this year, we took both of our children to watch The Croods at the cinema. Unfortunately, Ms C wanted to go to the loo after we sat in the cinema for about 1.5 hours. By the time we came back to our seat, the movie had finished! Though Mr C did explain what happened in the last 5 minutes, it’s obviously not the same as watching it for yourself. So when Mumsnet was look for reviewers, I was delighted to get picked by them so that I’m able to finish the movie!
Tom Pellereau Invented Stylfile Nipper Clipper
It is always so daunting to cut babies nails! I still remember cutting Mr K’s nails was like a military operation. One person would distract him while the other would cut his nails. I recall our health visitor suggested us to bite them off or just leave it for a bit longer before we peel them off because they’re thin and soft when they are babies. As a first time parent, we didn’t dare to even cut them nor bite them. It was always so hard. We even exchanged tips on how to cut baby nails when we met with our friends with babies. Some of them would just file them off and some would just wait until the baby’s nails were far too long before they used a nail clipper.
Chessington World of Adventures
Chessington World of Adventures Resort is a theme park, zoo and hotel in South West London, England. Starting this May, Captain Barnacles and Kwazii, heroes of the Octonauts crew, have arrived with their missions to save sea creature in trouble and now young adventurers can meet two of their heroes in person located next to the SEA LIFE centre! Not only that! Zufari: Ride into Africa! is opening! Join the African Conservation, Research & Exploration team (ACRE) to encounter live safari animals – including White Rhino, Giraffe and Grevy’s Zebra.
Last Sunday, we were invited to attend Chessington Mumnets Bloggers VIP day along with other Mumnets’ competition winners. This was our first time visiting Chessington and we were really looking forward to exploring the park and meeting the lovely animals.
Chessington is very easy to find as it’s well signposted and the entrance is accessed from the main road. There are a lot of parking spaces but you do need to pay £2 for the car park which I think is very reasonable if you compare with other theme parks.
If you choose to stay in their hotel, you can get an “up close and personal” with some of their amazing animals like feeding the giraffe, touching snails etc. You can even start your adventure before the park officially opens! We were so lucky that we are able to stroke the Binturong Bearcat. She is so sweet and smells of popcorn!
Once we were inside the park, the first place we went to was the Sea Life Centre where we got to meet those beautiful and colourful sea creatures like Jellyfish, Lionfish, Clown fish etc. It was enclosed in a large indoor tent. Along the trail, there are lots of information about the marine life and also questions for the Octonauts Quiz. Ms C was so excited to find most of the trail boards but she is too young to understand the questions. Mr K on the other hand was very keen to answer all the questions. He managed to get some right by guessing! There is a little shallow pool area where you are allowed to touch the fishes. Please make sure you wash your hands before and after you touch them. There is also a walk-through tunnel where you can see all the fishes up close! As this is a small version of the Sea Life Centre, it only took us 20 minutes to finish the trail.
B&Q unloved rooms revamp with mumsnet
Recently, Mumsnet was looking for 20 MNers to revamp an unloved room in their home. I was one of the lucky ones to have been chosen by B&Q. I was sent a B&Q gift card to spend on a makeover for the unloved room.
The unloved room used to be the nursery room for our children when they were babies. They have long since moved into their own rooms and it has gradually been a dumping ground for toys and books. I wanted to use this fantastic opportunity to turn it into a study room for my children who is in primary school.
Mumsnet’s Twitter Party with The Knackered Mother’s Wine Club
Yesterday evening +Mumsnet and their special guest, Helen McGinn, blogger and author of The Knackered Mother’s Wine Club, lead us through a wine-tasting.
I was fortunate to win a bottle of Tesco Finest New Zealand Pinot Noir 2011 to join the very first Mumsnet Twitter Party, which was all about wine and wine-tasting.
