Hello Swoppers, please find a list of events for the forthcoming swopshops. Bring along your items that you wish to rehome or come along a look for a bargain. Children welcome :0) Please note all items offered should be of good condition and in working order. There will be tables available for you, IF YOU ARE BRINGING CLOTHES FEEL FREE TO BRING A RAIL. … Got nothing to swop or sell… No...

 Cake!  What Mad Café would be complete without cake?  We’ll one of our lovely members is offering up a lovely Christmas Cake as a prize. It will be made to your choice.  Fruit, vanilla or chocolate! How can you win this lovley mouth watering prize?  Easy!  Write us a poem about the snow.  Make it Funny or make is heart warming.  Talk about the good, talk about the bad!  Entries must...

For months you waited with anticipation to see two blue lines, it began to feel like it would never happen. You’d started following fables and lying with your legs in the air till your toes went numb; abstaining to ensure the little fellows were strong and could swim further, not to mention the time I made him lay still on the bed with an ice pack on his nether regions. So now you’ve started on...

Well we at Mad Café are starting to get the festive bug! We are planning a few Christmas give aways. The first is for a beautiful build by day Nativity Christmas Calendar  From the wonderful Pheonix Range, supplied by Sarah Butler www.phoenix-trading.eu/web/sarahbutler How can you win this lovely item? Well its simple.  As you may have guessed we have a passion for Mums in Business and one of our...

PART 2/….. Hariibo! Now on to Harry-My beautiful little Haribo!! Our son Harry was my oasis of calm when his brother Cameron was going through a very severe “down” with his condition.  I’d cling to Harry knowing he would make me smile even on a low day.  Then roll on bombshell number 2!! KABOOM!! Harry was being perceived as naught at Nursery and would often be greeted with &quote;...

WHETHER your young have started school for the first time or are well into their education, it is vital that their eyes remain firmly focussed on what they’re learning. Statistics from the Eyecare Trust reveal that an alarmingly 50% of UK parents with children under eight have never taken them to the opticians, putting their eyesight and education at potential risk from undetected vision problems. There...

Pregnancy after loss 2 May 2009 My name is Vicky I am currently 28 weeks into my 3rd pregnancy. My eldest child Oliver is 2 years 4 months, my second child Jack died shortly after birth in June 2008 I am aware that my last article was very long I hope to keep this one a bit shorter now you have all the background information – although I do talk too much so sorry if I go on a bit! I am having...

 Tea and Time for You – MacMillan Coffee Morning Friday 24th September 2010 10am till noon (raffle will be drawn at noon) Higham Village Club – Hermitage Road, Higham, Kent, ME3 7DD Come along and take some time out for yourself, enjoy a free beauty or holistic treatment, a chance to shop for some unique gifts and christmas presents and raise some much needed money for MacMillan Cancer...

How it all began… My husband and I have kept chickens in our back garden for 3 years now and from the start I’ve been amazed. Amazed at how smart a chicken is, how cute they can be, and amazed by other people’s reactions to them (and some of the daft and not-so-daft questions we get asked!). We first bought our chickens as pets (as opposed to for eggs or meat!). We don’t have time...

How it all began From being ‘knee high to a grasshopper’ as my mum used to say, I have always felt at ease & my most happiest with lots of children around me.  The messier and noisier the better as far as I’m concerned, so it was no surprise to anyone close to me that childcare would be the avenue i would find myself going down.17 years later with 3 of my own children i still love...