Firstly I am a mum of two, I have a boy and a girl aged 8 (today!) and 6, I can’t quite believe how quickly the time has gone but we are now well and truly into the school routine and so here I am, working in a real office, with real working hours which is such a novelty!

And so to my purpose for being here. I am looking to get www.ukbabyshows.co.uk even busier, I want to hear all about any Uk Baby Shows that are going on up and down the country, I want to hear from organisers, exhibitors and any of you who visit the shows too.

I will be looking out for Guest Bloggers to so if any of you out there would be interested then please do contact me. You can follow us (if you don’t already) on Twitter and Facebook too.

So please come along and say hi, come and get involved and if you’ve anything interesting you think would suit our website then drop me a line.

I’m looking forward to seeing what’s out there!

Emma

Twitter: @ukbabyshows

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKBabyShows

emma@ukbabyshows.co.uk

Firstly I am a mum of two, I have a boy and a girl aged 8 (today!) and 6, I can’t quite believe how quickly the time has gone but we are now well and truly into the school routine and so here I am, working in a real office, with real working hours which is such a novelty!

And so to my purpose for being here. I am looking to get www.ukbabyshows.co.uk even busier, I want to hear all about any Uk Baby Shows that are going on up and down the country, I want to hear from organisers, exhibitors and any of you who visit the shows too.

I will be looking out for Guest Bloggers to so if any of you out there would be interested then please do contact me. You can follow us (if you don’t already) on Twitter and Facebook too.

So please come along and say hi, come and get involved and if you’ve anything interesting you think would suit our website then drop me a line.

I’m looking forward to seeing what’s out there!

Emma

Twitter: @ukbabyshows

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKBabyShows

emma@ukbabyshows.co.uk

So, we’re on the countdown to  the Young Families Bump, Baby and Toddler show for Watford, on Sunday 27 March 2011, at Woodside Leisure Centre, Horseshoe Road,  Watford.  We’re about to update the website with our Show Partners, and new exhibitors  and the flyers and posters are going out next week.

We’re still taking bookings from exhibitors and have workshop spaces left and are working on our pre show event coverage. So everything is on track, with lots of behind the scenes developments that we can’t really tell you much about yet, until they are confirmed.

So that’s us then. We’re here and working hard on preparations for the Show. We’ll be back soon, introducing the Show Partners and our exhibitors.  For the most up to date info, please come and “like” us on facebook and follow Liz who tweets as @cambridgemummy on twitter.

If you have any questions  or we can help you in any way, please call us on 01223 501520 or email liz@youngfamilies.co.uk

PS. What do you think of big cuddly toys opening these sort of  events? Peppa Pig, Bob the Builder, or Fireman Sam? Naff or cool for little people? Look forward to hearing your thoughts on this one.

I’ve previewed this to see if it works. It did when I tried it. Lets see now that I put it live.(But it’s big on the screen, so message me your postal address and we’ll post some out to you as they are just lovely. Too long a sentence in brackets? This is the joy of being in charge whilst Anne isn’t around to censor me and check grammar).

This is our flyer for the Cambridgeshire Show. It’s in the Rosie, John Lewis Cambridge and other exciting places, so there’s no wonder that the traffic is increasing on the site. Yay! Anne and I could look at google analytics all day. We really do need to get out more. There’s 35,000 of them going in and around Cambridgeshire….

Anyway, I’m sorry for not writing more - what with an urgent work contract coming in, me unwell, eldest now with chicken pox – these are all mundane excuses for not keeping up in your eyes I know. But genuinely, we’ve been busy with the Show – we’ve got lots of new friends for the Shows and developments are afoot that will make everyone happy.

I know I’m supposed to drop tit bits in here and write all the time, but now that I’m writing, I want to tell you everything that we’ve got going on. But my tiddler is sobbing and daddy can only handle it for 20 minutes, so I’ll do the best I can…

The early bird has ended for Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. We are now in the “Late Bird” phase, as we’ve innovatively coined it. We’ve got a lot of updating to do on the website as we’ve had a rush of bookings in, which is good. And we’ve had bookings in from quite a few cool people who are not local to us. More about them and their support in a separate post…

More good news is that we have a local celebrity coming to open the Cambridgeshire Show – Liz Fraser, author of the Yummy Mummy Survival Guide and GMTV parenting guru. We’re dead chuffed about this - although I shan’t be photographed next to her as she looks fabulous every time I meet her. Mind you, her tiddlers aren’t really tiddlers any more, so I’m consoled by that. I think that if I ‘action’ the stuff in the survival guide enough, I’ll seem all calm and ‘with it’ like she does. Nonetheless, come the day of the Show, I’m just going to put my Orla bag in front of my face and everyone will know that it’s me when it hits the CEN.

We’re toying with the idea of a children’s character to be there on the day – who do you think it should be? Comments would be much appreciated on this one. Thomas? (2 man job??) Peppa Pig, Piggly, Timmy, Big and Small? Who should it be? Should we do it?? What do you think?

Sorry, got to dash, my previewing has taken my 20 minute window up. But now that I’m back into it, I’ll be blogging more, promise. Don’t forget to comment on the character thing, will you?

As soon as it’s done, I’ll load it up here. Or more accurately when I try and can’t manage it, I’ll ask Anne how I do it :)

PS – What are you up to this week – new classes, new work, new play, new food? What’s happening with you??

We’re blogging so we cna keep you up to date with what’s happening with the Shows, tell you who has booked, what they are doing and how it’s all going. I won’t write too much now, as I have a little person who has turned three today, and I’m surrounded by dinoasuars who are playing on a multi storey car park. And a little brother to the little person, who is “helping” the bigger one with his new toys…

Summary (very un-Liz like) is all going really well. Bookings coming in nicely – thank you very much, supporter and partners all agreed for Cambs Show and all progressing nicely too for the Herts Show – discussing with supporters now and partners and we have had a booking in as well – thank you Nikki from Smallprint Herts! She’s getting a fab pitch, I tell you…

If you are coming to a Show and want to tell us what you’d like to see that would be great. Leave a comment. If you are an exhibitor and want to tell us what you are up to, leave a comment.

Look forward to hearing from you shortly, if I’m allowed back on here ;) Liz

PS. Sorry for my poor grammar. That will drive AKT nuts as well. Caps Everywhere, I tell you…                                  

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