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    Closer to Nature hygiene range

    Tommee Tippee, well know for their feeding and weaning products, have just launched a new Closer to Nature hygiene range and Edward and I were invited to attend the launch at Maggie & Rose. Their new hygiene range has been designed to make routine feeding easier through a range of products which help keep feeding equipment and the environment clean. The range consists of a hand serum, Steri-fluid, surface spray and soother, teat and teether wipes. All of the products (except the wipes) contain Byotrol  – a new anti-microbial technology which forms a barrier to germs which lasts for hours.…

  • blogging - Quinny Caster - Quinny Zapp Xtra - reviews

    QuinnyCasters News #9

    I’m so excited to tell you that I’ve finally won a QuinnyCasters challenge! Our third challenge was to use all possible online means to tell the world about our Quinny Zapp Xtra. Well I love a challenge and set about reviewing the Zapp Xtra on my favourite forums and websites, including Netmums, Mumsnet, Mums the Word, Bounty, as well as my blog, my baby blog and flickr. My motivation was that the top 3 QuinnyCasters who posted the most constructive and/or most reviews/testimonials would receive a hamper which would include: a Hoppop Motta Bike, Hoppop Donut Potty, Hoppop Coppa drinking…

  • blogging - Family History - family history

    I’ve drunk too much wine :)

    Today I’ve been mainly sleeping. Two weeks of worrying about how to get to and from work safely have taken their toll and I’m absolutely knackered. I’ve been thinking how nice it would be to be a Victorian lady. I would wear lovely clothes, a corset and have strange hair dos. More importantly, I’d be so well off I wouldn’t need to go to work in the City, I wouldn’t need to get the tube either, ever. I would spend my days having my friends round for tea in the morning, and in the afternoon I would do fancy embroidery…

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    What’s it all about?

    My name is gingerbreadhouse, I work in the City for the best known NGO in the world and I live in leafy Norf London with my boyfriend. I’m obsessed with News 24. The idea behind this is to keep a record of my research, exciting finds (for me anyway!) and things to remember and go back to at a later date.