Peekaboo started by accident. I had decided to make baby food for a living. Pureeing carrots with aplomb and my freezer bulging with frozen cubes of food, I felt ominpotent. So I began to research the sector and quickly realised that making food for children other than your own turns into a legislative minefield. But while doing my research I stumbled …
Juggling work and kids – could a solution be on the horizon?
It’s half term, which always makes working interesting. I find myself dashing up and down the stairs, from my office, to the playroom where my children are intent on losing lots of lego bits and arguing about who has the better half built space ship. It’s not easy. But then again, finding childcare has never been easy. We’ve done nurseries, …
Drum roll please – launching the fabulous new baby wear range from Aunty Ollie
We’re very excited that Aunty Ollie has just introduced a brand new baby wear range. It is fantastically retro, almost vintage, with romper suits and big floppy hats that really make a statement. The company, run by Australian Jodie Hampshire, only launched last year with its hugely successful summer and winter ranges for kids. Since then, she’s brought out some ultra cool aprons for mums and kids. And the 2010 …
Tesco and Pyjama-gate
am not a Tesco fan. In fact, if I can avoid the store at all I do. Yet it is with a lot of glee that I’ve read the stories this week about Tesco imposing a ban on shoppers wearing pyjamas. The comments section of almost all the articles posted by various media outlets make for particularly good reading. In fact I’ve spent most …
Belated happy new year
Well 2010 has gotten off to a funny old start. It’s like it hasn’t really started, what with all the snow and school closures, I feel as though the world has been living in limbo, waiting for the big thaw. Which finally seems to be happening at last. In between playing countless games of marbles with two VERY bored little …
Busy, busy, busy
The lead up to Christmas is always busy – what with nativity plays and Christmas fayres, not to mention all the shopping, cooking and planning for visitors. But it’s also the time when so many businesses suddenly realise that a new year is looming and they probably need a marketing plan for the year ahead. We’ve been inundated with new business …
Working with mummy bloggers
I sent this information out to my newsletter database recently, but thought it would be worth putting it on here too -with a few minor additions. In May 2008 I took the plunge and started writing a blog. It was simply a place that I could let off steam, recall funny incidents about my children or ponder deep thoughts. I …
Getting flooded is horrid. Here’s how you can help
In July 2007, our house was flooded. Thigh deep water throughout downstairs. It was a nightmare. We lost everything, had to live in a damp and mouldy house for a month (sitting on a bare concrete floor where the sofas used to be) and then had to move out for several months while the whole place was gutted. I had …
Highs and lows
So today was one of those days that all working mums dread. The ubiquitous ‘childminder is ill and can’t take your child’ day. Suddenly whatever work you had planned gets shelved in favour of a visit with small boy to Borders for a babyccino and a browse through the kids books, while surreptitiously checking your blackberry. It’s days like today that I find I …
Welcome to our new blog
It’s slightly crazy to have a third (yes a THIRD) blog given how much I have to do anyway, but it’s high time I created a business blog. I’ll be posting our news, client news and industry news here. Plus some random thoughts. Because sometimes you just need a place to get them down. And although this is a business …