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Hi everyone,

We'd like to let you all know that we have decided to change things at Mum's the Word.

Just four months after our launch, and after many fun Friday afternoons spent playing bingo, doing crafts, and swapping anything we can think of, we're finding ourselves out of pocket every week due to dwindling numbers and hefty overheads.

MtW is the only group of it's kind locally with the focus on activities for the parents. Our feedback from most of you is that this is a great concept, and that you will continue to come to the group. The problem is of course you can't all come, all of the time (thank goodness - we would never have enough cake!). Joking aside though, and it breaks our hearts to say this, we are going to have to stop completely if we don't get some more bingo-playing cake eaters to support us each week.

So, from February 25th (this Friday) we will start to run MtW every other week. We hope this will entice more of you to come each time, and will give us more time between Fridays to think up fun and innovative things to do.

We'd really appreciate your further feedback about the activities, the venue, the concept, and would like to hear any of your ideas, and whether you'd like to see MtW stay on the Stoke Newington parents' calendar. If any of you would like to get involved, running a 'Week of my Own' or making cakes, please let us know. The more of you who get involved, the more likely it is that MtW has a future.

It has been great getting to know you all, and we hope to keep MtW going for many years, so please email us to let us know what you think.

 

Thank you,

Alice and Alice x

Make Mine a Manicure...

Hello, 'ello,

The daffs are up, the sun is at last beginning to shine (well, sort of!) and we're longing for spring to come and warm the cockles of our souls. So what better way to rejoice in the coming of the warmer months than to treat yourself to a manicure to add a little colour to your life...

We've teamed up again with Beautify salon http://www.beautifyn16.com/ (which is conveniently located right under Abney Public Hall) to offer you a Quick Manicure (nails shaped and finished with a colour or buffed to shine) for a bargain price of £5 - this is £4 off the regular price!

We will operate on a first-come-first-served basis, so when you arrive, and you want a manicure, we will give you a number (rather like Argos, or the cheese counter at Morrisons - but a little less chaotic we hope!) and then they will take place in that order. We think this is the fairest way of doing it. The salon is directly under the hall, down a flight of stairs - you are welcome to take your baby with you, but many mums prefer to leave their baby with a friend upstairs and enjoy a little Me Time...

We'll have the regular tea, cake and chat going on upstairs.

See you Friday.

Crafty Love...

Sometimes feel bad that you lavish all your attention on your little bundle of joy and not on your other half?? Well, now's the time to reset the balance because tomorrow at Mum's the Word we're making Valentine's cards! We've got all the stuff, you bring your creativity and a touch of romance. Ahhhhhhhh.
x

Recipe Swap

We are having a Recipe Swap, which involves you lovely lot bringing along a few copies of your favourite recipe - family meal, baby meal, baking, anything you like!) to pass onto others in exchange for their own faves. We could even make a Mum's the Word recipe book if you all get involved!

So you have a week to choose your recipe, print a few out, and tell your friends to do the same! You will hopefully go home with a pile of new recipes to try.

Look forward to as many of your recipes as you can muster. Of course homemade cakes from us, tea and chat.

Lingerie Lounge

Babies + boobs + bras = bad news.

That is, until now, because Rosa Lingerie http://rosalingerie.co.uk/ are descending upon us this Friday to turn our bad fitting bra hell into lovely lingerie heaven. We all know that having babies wreaks havoc on the body and it's oh-so easy to forget about mum once baby comes along. We get bigger, smaller again (eventually!), breast feed and run around all day so it's no wonder that 80% of us are wearing the wrong size bra.

We will have an expert to talk us through the rules of buying a bra, to measure us, to show us a selection of underwear, including nursing bras and swimwear and, best of all, to give us discount vouchers for Rosa Lingerie on Church Street.

Some come and have a cuppa and beat the boob-blues!

See you Friday!

Bingo's back!

Hello, and apologies for the late posting this week -  what with the flu and going back to work we're a little bit behind, to say the least. But fear not, this week at MtW we bring you Bingo!

We have prizes and we have tea and we have cake. What more could you want!?

See you tomorrow...

Happy New Year - we're back this week.

Hello mums (and dads) and Happy New Year to you all.
We hope you all had lovely Christmas's and Happy New Year's and are rested, refreshed, and ready to go in 2011.

We return on Friday, and to welcome in the New Year we're kicking off with an 'Unwanted Present' swap - the perfect opportunity to get rid of that, ahem, less than lusted-after loot.
All you need to do is re-wrap that toilet roll holder from Sue next door, or the talc and hankies from Great-Aunt Gladys, and we'll put them in a sack and everyone will get something else at random. Who knows - you may even get something you want! And if not, there are plenty of charity shops nearby...

We will, of course, have the usual tea, cake and chat. And the door price is still £4 despite the VAT increase!

See you Friday...