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Baby Bundle Giveway from Argos

Are you pregnant or do you know someone that is?  I've just come across a great giveaway from Argos where one lucky person stands the chance of winning a great bundle containing the following 7 must have baby items: BabyDan Danchair Natural Wooden Highchair Apramo Gaia Group 0+ Car Seat Infant Carrier Angelcare AC1100 Digital Video, Movement and Sound Monitor Onaroo Ok To Wake! Portable Owl Nightlight and Sleep Trainer  Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Newborn Starter Kit BabyBjörn babysitter Balance Bouncer Mamas and Papas Apple Bobbin 4 Piece Nursery Bedding Set  Clair de Lune Waffle Moses Basket with Pine Stand Baby bath time support from Angelcare Click here to enter.  The closing date is 3 June 2014. Good luck! Ally x

Chocolate Hot Cross Bun Pudding

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I actually meant to post this last week but got distracted with an attempted nesting clean of my lounge.  I did actually succeed to a degree.  If you saw it this week you may not agree... Before said spring clean I found three packets of hot cross buns in my cupboard.  I had bought too many after a trip to the shops where they were clearly pumping their hot and spicy scent through the air vents, rendering poor pregnant women helpless but to buy them. As I didn't want the buns to go to waste and I felt like have pudding after my dinner, I decided to make them into my version of bread and butter pudding, layered with Nutella and spices.  I had to make a rather large custard mix to coat the buns as best as I could.  It wasn't full to the brim but about 2/3 of the way but the buns still soaked it all up beautifully. The finished product was absolutely delicious especially with the generous lashings of custard and general sounds of quiet and contentedness from hubby and da

Blissful Pregnancy Massage with Helen Brown

After I had my daughter in 2010 I swore blind that if I had any aches or pains, SPD or sciatica in my next pregnancy that I would get them seen to instead of suffering in relative silence. In this pregnancy I'd put on quite a bit of weight in a short space of time and I was still running a few times a week up until about four and a half months.  The combination of these two had sent my lower back into mini spasms which desperately needed to be seen to by someone who knew exactly how pregnant women should be massaged during their pregnancy. I had my first treatment session with Helen Brown of Helen Brown Pregnancy Massage Therapy  when I was five months pregnant and believe you me, it couldn't have been at a better time.  Helen, an  ITEC Holistic Massage Therapist who works from the comfort of her home in St Albans, Hertfordshire, is specially trained and qualified in Pregnancy Massage Therapy and a member of the Federation of Holistic Therapists (FHT).  Helen's treat