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A Printable Snowman Activity
One more day! Just one more day and we officially land in December, and then even the grumpiest of Bah! Humbugs have to acknowledge that it is very nearly Christmas. The tree can be put up without the chance of disapproving looks, the advent calendar can start to be opened, and you can get out all those strange drinks that you only ever drink at Christmas (Snowball, Advocat, Babycham – you know the ones.) This year you can get into the Christmas spirit with some old-fashioned dice and card games provided by Betfair Slots. The printable game featured below is called roll a snowman and is a fun and simple…
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Christmas Gift Idea: A Photo Gift Idea From Lifecake
Lifecake is a fantastic App that gives you a way to preserve your photographs and videos that accumulate over time. It is a visual storytelling platform that can store all the photographs you take of your children and can organise them into albums, sorted by special occasions, birthdays and memorable dates. In addition, you can also share the details with your loved ones, who may not live close, so that they too can keep up to date with all the memorable milestones our children experience every single day. Currently you can download the Lifecake app from Google Play and the Apple Store and receive 10GB of free space for storing…
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Avoiding Christmas Debt
It may be the most wonderful time of the year, but it is also the most expensive. Christmas presents, Christmas food and Christmas experiences are all lovely, but they cost money, money we often don’t have. Christmas is the time of year when credit cards are maxed, store cards are opened and debts are accumulated, debts that we will then be paying off right into the New Year and beyond. There are things you can do though, to keep the spending, and therefore the debt, at a more manageable level. Sort out the debt you already have If you already have loans, credit and store cards that you are finding…
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Christmas Gift Guide for Sports Lovers
We are now firmly entrenched in November. Halloween has gone, Bonfire Night is now a distant memory, so we can now firmly turn our thoughts to the most wonderful time of the year, at least in my eyes. Yes, Christmas is now just over a month away, and for some, this might mean that the panic is starting to set in. Because, although some people are very easy to buy a gift for, others can lead to many sleepless nights. I have been writing a series of posts giving pointers to gift ideas that may be a little different from the norm. This post is some ideas for gifts for…
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The Night Before Christmas at John Lewis Birmingham
“Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house”, well, all through John Lewis in Grand Central Birmingham actually, but you get the general picture. Christmas arrived in Birmingham last week, as a group of very lucky bloggers (myself included – yay!) were invited to a Christmas launch event after hours in the flagship Grand Central store. There was fizz, there was delicious looking food, and there was everything that says ‘Christmas’, It was amazing. The night was all about getting a taste of John Lewis Christmas, before the much anticipated advert is released. There was an opportunity to look at specific promotions, including a set of very special…
