The BritMums Blog

What the blithering ‘eck is NaBloPoMo I hear you ask? NaBloPoMo stands for National Blog Posting Month and the goal is to write (and publish) a post every day… yep, every day, including weekends… in the month of November.

Halloween will be a thing of the past after Monday but we have one more exciting seasonal event to come…Bonfire Night (aka Guy Fawkes Day). Many of us will be bundling up our children and heading out to local Bonfire Night celebrations, drinking mulled wine and enjoying fireworks…bizarrely, in honour of a rebel who tried [...]

The end of the month. The clocks have turned back an hour thus giving us more time to… sleep? dream? iron? stress? blog? We definitely hope that you won’t be using your “extra” hour to iron (we know not what that is in our house!). Perhaps you’d like to use your extra hour to contemplate, [...]

I’ve had a lot of exciting opportunities through my blog in the last year or so, and one of the most exciting, that came pretty much out of the blue, was the opportunity to be involved with Three UK and their On the Go Mums campaign. This was a great summer campaign that started with [...]

Have you survived Half Term? Is your sanity intact? Have you had a wonderful time with the kids? Or will you be VERY HAPPY to coax the children back into their school uniforms next week and accompany them on the school run? No matter what your week has been like, we hope it’s at least [...]

Caravanning is becoming an increasingly popular way to holiday with the kids. On our holiday this summer, we combined caravanning with exploring a region of France we had never previously visited. It wasn’t the most relaxing holiday, but perhaps that’s inevitable when you have two active and enthusiastic kids. Ours are aged nine and six [...]

There are so many brilliant bloggers who are BritMums members that finding the time to read all of their posts can prove challenging. There are some amazing linkys each week and various memes to help you in your quest and of course, there’s the prolific @MammasaurusBlog who keeps creating more showcase blogs for every niche [...]

Brr! It’s a bit chilly outside isn’t it? Time to pull up your woolly socks, pop on your baggiest jumper and boil the kettle as its Newbie Tuesday and it commands a steaming hot cuppa and a biccy or four. This week has seen an influx of new bloggers this week which makes for some [...]

The autumn leaves are falling, the nights are getting darker and the layering of clothes is in full swing. While we’re feeling a bit chilly and getting stuck into our comfort foods and wooly jumpers, this seems like the perfect time to get a bit of blogging warmth with a good old fashioned BlogHop. What’s [...]

Alice Langley was a further education teacher before taking voluntary redundancy to raise her daughter (and number two, due very soon). Writing her An Essex Wife blog as a hobby, Alice soon realised writing was where she belonged. Here, she discusses why the ‘make do and mend’ mantra means arts and craft time is no [...]