He brought us the mouse. He brought us the iPhone. His vision touched so many of our lives.
This is one day I really miss not being in Silicon Valley, though thoughts of Steve seem to have circled the globe many times over, and landed inside my head, swirling around, trying to escape through my keypad.
Please leave your thoughts below.
You can also send your memories and condolences for this extraordinary man to rememberingsteve@apple.com
We all know how very important buggies are to our children and for maintaining our sanity as parents, particularly when our precious children begin to toddle and need containment and security. Heathrow Airport has recently been reaching out to a group of Mummy Bloggers to see how much more family friendly they can make parent's flying experience.
Imagine our surprise after reading the following story in The Evening Standard yesterday. At Terminal 1, thanks to the decisions of someone at Menzies Aviation, their baggage handlers will no longer be permitted to handle buggies due to "health and safety" regulations. What this means for parents is that, upon check-in at Terminal 1 at Heathrow Airport, you will no longer be permitted to take your buggy into the terminal and up to the departure gate. You will need to check-in your buggy along with your luggage and will not be reunited with your buggy until you arrive at baggage claim at your destination. No more meeting you at the ramp to the plane! You'll have to negotiate lengthy airport walks on either side without the convenience of your buggy.
Continue reading "A buggy ban at Heathrow airport? Really? " »
Lucy from Family Affairs and other matters is getting behind Innocent’s push to receive donations of knitted hats for Innocent bottles, the sales of which help to raise money for Age UK.
Here, she implores you to get click clacking with your needles (even if, whisper it, she herself can’t actually knit…)
Innocent have asked for another big push to reach all the knitters out there in order to increase the much needed funds for Age UK – their target is 800,000 hats which is an awful lot of teeny weeny hats.
Spotlight time again! Here at BritMums HQ we just love to point you in the direction of great writing, interesting bloggers and the latest and greatest news in the blogosphere. It's hard work here at BritMums HQ you know? The BritMums membership is up to 3100+ now with more members joining every day. Our network has so many features and brilliant ways of highlighting content that you're never going to be short of something to see, do, sign up for or read. What a service! Feel free to send cake...we get hungry at BritMums HQ!
Sally Whittle is an editor, blogger and writer who organises the MAD Blog Awards. Here, she introduces the winners for each category and describes an altogether unique awards experience...
This weekend saw the second annual MAD Blog Awards ceremony, which celebrate the very best of British parent blogging.
The MAD Blog Awards isn’t your typical awards ceremony. For starters, the acceptance speeches included references to incontinence, Spanx underwear and an impromptu dance-off between five of the finalists. Of course, no blogging party is complete without some bad karaoke and our finalists proved that their talents don’t necessarily extend to singing, as they lined up to use the X-Factor karaoke pod.
Bonjourno fellow bloggers and a warm welcome once more to 'Newbie Tuesday'! Another week has passed and once more I have been wowed by some great newer bloggers’ posts. First things first, this is going to make for some fabulous reading so get prepared - pour a cuppa, hack off a wedge of choccy cake and shut the kids under the stairs (okay, so definitely don't do that last bit)!
Prime Minister David Cameron was on BBC television at the weekend, telling Andrew Marr that he was sorry for the ‘sexist’ comments he made on not one but two occasions.
Some six months after the events, the PM said that he “deeply regrets” causing offence, and that the comments made in the House of Commons just “came out wrong and caused the wrong impression”.
Those of us with school age kids and kids back in childcare are just about rumbling into a post-summer routine around now.
Some of us have the house back in the daytime, some of us are finding our groove again in the workplace, and now, perhaps.. just maybe... we can snatch a little bit of time just for us.
Or can we? As our video bloggers discuss, sometimes the mummies are willing but the flesh is off hanging out the washing, typing up urgent documents or dealing with every other daily demand.
Continue reading "VIDEO: Me time... easier said than done?" »
Once again, we're going to give you a Video Blogging Challenge this week which will hopefully get the cameras rolling and our bloggers trying something new. We know video blogging can be intimidating but it can also be really fun and different and will add an entirely new dimension to your blogging.
We are aware that many of you are wary of putting yourself on camera so we're going to try a different sort of video blogging challenge which might draw a few more of you in.
My Favourite Space in my Home is...
This is simple! Show us where YOUR favourite space is in your home. Where do you find your peace? Where do you retreat to when it all gets to be a bit too much? Where do you recharge your batteries?
You can take us on a tour of this space (without appearing on camera) or simply set up your camera to take it all in with you included (or a bit of both!). Keep your video, ideally, to under 5 minutes to keep your viewers hooked and that's it! So who amongst you is going to give this a go? We want to see you and/or your favourite spaces! Take us through the keyhole!
Ready, steady, VLOG!
The time has come for another dose of blogging inspiration courtesy of the BritMums Blogging Prompt of the Week. Once again, we're giving you a choice of a personal prompt and a blogging prompt to get your creative juices flowing. We're loving that people are starting to be inspired by this feature and we're doing our best to get to all of your posts, comment and promote them as much as we can. Be sure to Tweet us your link when you post it (@BritMums) and link up your post below to share with the blogosphere.
We hope you'll find something to write about with one or the other (or BOTH!) of these prompts! Shout when you've got a post to promote...we're always happy to "pimp" our BritMums members. Now, have a think and turn on your laptop/computer/iPad and get to writing.
Ready, steady...BLOG!
