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How does that song go? Something about “auld lang syne?” All I know is that we’re meant to cross hands and jump around a lot when it’s time to sing it at midnight tonight. I’m good like that! So, obviously, 2011 is drawing to a close. We’re winding down our blogs for the year, making [...]

We’re thrilled to announce our first Twitter party of the year, sponsored by TK Maxx, which promises to be a fantastic tip-swapping “do” along with prizes worth £1,000! The experience of becoming a parent is priceless, but the cost of a new baby now tops £3,000, according to research. But what’s all money for? Do [...]

“You can only predict things after they have happened,” French dramatist Eugène Ionesco said. While we agree that is typically the easiest way, one of the benefits of being part of the BritMums network is that you regularly hear the thoughts, concerns and plans of one of the UK’s biggest, baddest blogging tribes. Over the [...]

You’re working your way through several creative versions of left over turkey recipes, you’ve got all the bottles/cardboard/paper recycling sorted, you’ve made notes on several great posts for your blog, you’ve said goodbye to the relatives and now you can put your feet up for a while until New Years Eve. Or…can you? Are you [...]

If it’s good enough for Cheryl, it’s good enough for us! Our video challenge this week comes all the way from Chicago via Expat Mum. She currently has a Geordie poem up on her web site. (For those in the dark, a Geordie is a person from the North East of England, Tyneside to be precise.) The poem [...]

BritMums would like to wish all our members a very Merry Christmas! Next week the BritMums blog will be on holiday and the BritMums team relaxing with friends and family, recovering from mince pie and mulled wine overload, and considering our New Year’s Resolutions. And what about you? What are you all up to? We’d [...]

We’ve had so much fun over the last couple of months, bringing you some brilliant creative posts from resident bloggers, running competitions to celebrate your ideas and hosting a Twitter party that generated so many ideas it took us days to go back over them. Firstly, let’s give our craft experts Maggy from Red Ted Art [...]

Alex is our BritMums Live! Ambassador but she is also mum to the beautiful, funny Alenya, a child with special needs. She blogs about life with her daughter at Doing it all for Aleyna. Here, Alex recommends more blogs about parenting children with additional needs. My husband and I spend a large amount of our [...]

Benjamin Tipping, who blogs at Mutterings of a Fool, provides an eye-opening insight into the struggle faced by the modern man who wants to provide for his family while also being there to watch them grow up. I am a working dad, one who commutes 70 miles a day to work, not only that but [...]

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