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How to avoid being ripped off on line

People who have searched for the cheapest items on line have been ripped off by criminals online.The fraud involves very low prices enticing in customers, but payment is taken by bank transfer rather than a card payment.Sadly for the people ripped off bank transfers are irreversible without a court order and there is no comeback against the bank who handled the transfer.Funky Giraffe only takes payment via SagePay and PayPal, both offer an excellent level of consumer protection and you have full consumer rights. We have also signed up to Internet Shopping is Safe who also monitor us to ensure we are both legal...

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Top tips for baby sleeping part II

Top tips for baby sleeping part II

Blackout blindsThe slow change from dark to light can help wake us up, but in some cases you want to avoid that. Investing in black out blinds can help promote longer sleeps for you and your baby as well as to some extend helping to block out noise. We hung ours from the inside of the existing curtains.Watch out for CaffeineNot only keeps you awake but can be past on to your baby via breast milk. Baby MassageWe tried this and we never really found it very effective, but other people swear by it. Try and see if it works for...

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Baby fashion 56 items or more?

According to the headlines the average baby will get through 56 outfits as a baby.I have not counted how many mine got through but this seems excessive (an odd thought for someone who sells baby clothes you may think, but first and foremost I am a mum, and a mum whose partner lost their job 2 months before I gave birth).I have to admit that I had bagful of clothes as working at a big fashion company I was able to buy all the samples at cost, as well as many of my friends being in fashion doing the same. But as...

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Will Storms in the US and Canada lead to more babies?

While most of the evidence is anecdotal, it does sometimes look like big events, especially those which are a bit traumatic can result in a baby boom afterwards.Possibly it may be to do with the power cuts and the closing of other places to go, or perhaps for those more poetic the need to be close to the ones we love in troubled times, but it does appear that baby booms do follow big events. In 2002 following the tragedy of 911 in New York the number of births grew by 20%, and going further back in 1966 following huge electrical blackouts nine...

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Back in London and preparing for Earls Court

Sunday was sunny in Paris and that meant it was the busiest of the three days. But fortunately my French had improved to the point where some people could actually understand me!! Thankfully people were very kind and understanding. We met some great people there, so was a great weekend, and such cute babies! Our bandana bibs seem to have done down well.After a made dash for the ferry we hit fog so we had to slow right down and missed the ferry, but got home and unpacked ready to deal with the emails from the weekend and getting everything ready for...

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