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Win a Hotel Chocolat Summer Collection box worth £35.00

July 16, 2016 | 109 Comments

Win a Hotel Chocolat Summer Collection box worth £35.00 main image

At Hotel Chocolat the Summer Collection is now available – perfect for barbeques, garden parties, and even summer weddings. Featuring fruity sleekster boxes, smoothies to chill, summer Nano slab gallery, The Chocs-to-chill H-box, which features 15 refreshing summer chocolates best served straight from the fridge, while the Mini Champagne Truffles add a dash of glamour. […]

Filed Under: Current Competitions, Gifts and Gadgets, Life-style Tagged With: competition, confectionary, gifts, giveaway, giveaways, Hotel Chocolat, summer, Win

Guiding Teens To Their Perfect Career With Start

July 11, 2016 | Leave a Comment

With the lack of career advisors in the UK, many teens aren’t sure what career path they want to take, Start can change that with their free online tool.

Filed Under: Lifestyle Parenting, parenting, Teens Tagged With: education, lifestyle, online, parenting, teen parenting, teenage parenting advice, teens

Indulge with Lindt Swiss Luxury Selection

July 9, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Lindt Swiss

When a very special delivery arrived from Lindt it didn’t take long for me to find willing volunteers to taste test the Lindt Swiss Luxury selection, an exquisite selection of milk, dark and white swiss chocolate Masterpieces. I normally buy Lindt chocolates for friends and family for Birthdays, Christmas and especially Easter so it was a nice treat to […]

Filed Under: Gifts and Gadgets, Lifestyle Parenting, Reviews Tagged With: Birthday gifts, chocolate, christmas gifts, confectionary, gifts, Lindt, luxury, review, taste test

8 Reasons to give Bodypower Fitness Expo 2017 a shot!

July 2, 2016 | 1 Comment

8 Reasons to give Bodypower Fitness Expo 2017 a shot!

Bodypower is one of Europe’s largest fitness expos, let alone the UK’s biggest! The name ‘body power’ I believe this is truly an event for all in some aspect. Of course, you’re bound to be massively excited for this event every year if you live a healthy lifestyle, but here are my 8 reasonings to […]

Filed Under: Beauty, Life-style, Travel Tagged With: Advice, bodypower, fitness, gym, health, healthier living, Jeff seid, Nikki blackketter, suppliments

Panasonic Nanoe Hair Dryer Review

June 29, 2016 | 1 Comment

Panasonic Nanoe Hair Dryer Review - Main image

Drying hair is a chore in my eyes, with thick frizzy hair that won’t settle, hair dryers tend to make my hair even worse with fly aways, and I end up with a gigantic ball of fluff instead of beautiful glossy hair. I’ll forever envy those women that can dry their hair and they’re ready […]

Filed Under: Beauty, Life-style, Lifestyle Parenting, Reviews Tagged With: beauty, Hair, Hair Dryer, haircare, Panasonic, review

Win a Nike England Home Infants Minikit 2016

June 28, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Win a Nike England Home Infants Minikit 2016

To celebrate Euro 2016, Poki.com have kindly provided us with a fantastic Nike England Home Infants Minikit to giveaway to one of our lucky readers. Play Football Games on-line Poki have a huge selection of Football games with varying gameplay, from realistic, 3D matches to 2D, cartoon-themed games. Reenact headshots from real games or become […]

Filed Under: Baby-Toddlers, Games for kids, Lifestyle Parenting, Previous Competitions Tagged With: clothing, England, euro2016, football, gaming, Infants, Kids

Force Attax Extra – How to play step by step

June 23, 2016 | 1 Comment

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I recently became a Topps blogger Ambassador and over the next few months will be sharing with you some of the fantastic collections from Topps starting with one of my boys favourites the Star Wars Force Attax Extra. Here at umeandthekids, we will also be running some fantastic competitions thanks to Topps for our readers, you […]

Filed Under: Games for kids, Lifestyle Parenting, Reviews Tagged With: Activities for kids, Force Attax Extra, Kids, Star Wars, Topps, trading card games, Trading cards

The LEGO® Friends Amusement Park Tour is coming to Leeds

June 22, 2016 | Leave a Comment

The LEGO® Friends Amusement Park Tour is coming to Leeds - Main image

To celebrate the launch of the exciting new LEGO® Friends Amusement Park building sets a new, live Tour is coming to Leeds!  The LEGO® Friends Amusement Park Tour opens this Summer bringing these sets to life and offers young builders a fun day out, so buckle up and come and join the fun. In Leeds, […]

Filed Under: Leeds, Lifestyle Parenting, parenting Tagged With: Activities for kids, girls, kids toys, leeds, LEGO, Lego Friends, Lego Store Leeds, Places to go with kids, The LEGO® Friends Amusement Park Tour, toys, Yorkshire

SKYLANDERS BATTLECAST GAME REVIEW

June 18, 2016 | Leave a Comment

SKYLANDERS BATTLECAST GAME REVIEW 2

Skylanders Battlecast has been made by blizzard a derivative company of Activision. Blizzard has made several hit games such as World of Warcraft which is amazingly popular and is getting a movie adaptation, Hearthstone a card game from which Skylanders Battlecast draws inspiration from and the wildly successful Overwatch released on the 24th May 2016. SKYLANDERS […]

Filed Under: Games for kids, Gifts and Gadgets, Lifestyle Parenting, Reviews Tagged With: Childrens games, gifts for kids, Kids, kids toys, skylanders, Skylanders Battlecast, Trading cards

LittleScreen at Showcase Cinemas

June 12, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Little Screen

This June (18th and 19th), a brand new cinema experience for pre-schoolers will be coming to Showcase venues across the country. LittleScreen, for little people but on a BIG screen, brings together some of the most loved characters to the cinema for the very first time. The 60-minute screenings will include some fantastic episodes from […]

Filed Under: Baby-Toddlers, Family Movies, Leeds, Lifestyle Parenting Tagged With: cinema, Kids, Masha and the Bear, movies, Paw Patrol, pre-school, showcase cinema, Thomas & Friends

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