21st Century Mummy Essential reading for modern day mums

  I’m all for using natural products and remedies for babies. When it comes to teething, I’m a big fan of Ashtons and Parsons powders which really helped Miss C when she was teething (she breezed through the whole teething process anyway). Baby C hasn’t been so lucky. She was ...

No, not that kind of naked, sorry to disappoint. That would be stupid! I lost my sunglasses a few weeks ago. Without them I felt naked. Some people wouldn’t leave home without wearing makeup, for me it’s sunglasses. They might as well be an extension of my body because day and night you&...

Photo: Miss C  I have strong and happy memories from when I was a child swimming in the pool at my grandparent’s villa in Spain. I was water baby and they were halcyon days. I hope my children have the same happy memories when they look back on their time in Singapore. We have a [...]

We just had our first visit to the new Port of Lost Wonder on Palawan Beach on Sentosa, Singapore’s first kids club by the beach. Even though we arrived just before 11, there was already a queue for tickets and it was packed. Not surprising given it is Sunday and it is new. Armed with [...]

The first time I heard the drone of the fogging machines it was somewhat terrifying. First, the noise like the low hum of aircraft approaching in an air raid in World War 2; then the menacing cloud appeared like the black smoke from ‘Lost’, except white, getting bigger and bigger and hea...

Mr C is off to Manila in the Philippines next week for work. He sent me a link on 10 things to do in Manila, a post from from Lady Ironchef, specifically referring to one thing he was definitely NOT going to do whilst he was there. Eat Balut. WARNING: I advise anyone squeamish not to [...]

Katetakes5′s Listography this week is top wishes for your children, if they had a Fairy Godmother who could grant wishes of course. I have many wishes for my children, so it was hard to pick only 5, but here they are. 1. A long and happy life – for obvious reasons 2. Having the courage [...

I admit it I’m afraid of the dark. I always have been. Perhaps it’s due to my vivid imagination, thinking a ghost (strange as I don’t believe in them) might try to kill me in a variety of gruesome ways that I’ve made up in my head or that someone might climb in my window [......

This toy “pop-up” shop is in the middle of a Liang Court, a shopping mall near where we live. It belongs to Royce Gym, an indoor play area near by. There is no door, no staff (whenever I go past), no security, although I’m sure there is cctv and the walls are waist high. All [...]

It was party time at the Hard Rock Hotel on Sentosa last weekend. It was their first ever pool-side liquid buffet (think free flow beer and cocktails) for the launch of the first non-casino loyalty programme in Singapore. It was also the first time I’d been to the hotel. It was a wet evening s...