I love a pamper. It doesn’t happen much, but when I do get the opportunity to indulge in a soak in the bath, or a luxuriously long hot shower, then I feel like a different woman.

The Body Shop’s Honeymania range is the ideal partner for such an occasion.

Because I couldn’t offer something as a prize without testing it myself first (I’ve got to check it’s up to standard, obviously *cough*) I can tell you with conviction that this range is lovely.

It smells rich but not sickly, leaves your skin polished and soft and is the kind of stuff you sort of want to eat, because it smells SO good.

And now – your chance to win a selection of Honeymania treats all for yourself. Just complete the Rafflecopter widget on this post.

Good luck!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Terms and conditions: 

• Competition open to UK residents aged 18 and over, exluding anyone professionally associated with The Body Shop or Mother’s Always Right.
• Prize draw starts at 12pm GMT on 11th December 2013 and closes at 11.59pm GMT on 6th January 2013.
• Entry is via Facebook by liking the page specified. Bonus entries can be obtained via Twitter, by tweeting the specified tweet and following the specified account.
• The winner will receive a selection of non-specified products from The Body Shop’s Honeymania range.
• There is no cash alternative.
• The winner will be contacted direcly within 7 days of the competition closing.
• The name of the winner will be published on this website within 7 days of the competition closing.
• Entries that do not comply in full with these requirements will be disqualified.
• The promoter is: The Body Shop International plc, Care Centre, Building 7, Watersmead, Littlehampton, West Sussex, BN17 6LS, UK

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All you have to do is dig out a picture of your beautiful child making a huge mess. Something like this:

This time last year Frog was learning about food.

She was learning to throw it, smear it all over her face and, occasionally, taste the odd morsel.

I remember one particular meal very clearly. We’d had carrot soup for lunch. It was everywhere – adorning the wall, floor and ceiling. Frog had food in her hair, all over her face and under every fingernail. I couldn’t imagine a day when this wouldn’t be the outcome of every mealtime. The thought of Frog using a spoon was a distant dream.

Fast-forward to today and we’re all about the spoons. Gone are the days of plunging chubby fists into plates of spaghetti. Instead, we’re scooping and aiming with perfect precision. The mess is, amazingly, minimal.

But I look back on those early days with fondess. We had great fun…

Now here’s the good bit.

If you too have messy children, you now have the opportunity to brag about it and win yourself a £75 Amazon voucher.

All you have to do is post a picture of your child making a mess, covered in mess or just generally looking messy, on your own blog, along with the following:

Here is my entry to the Appliances Online messiest kid competition at Mother’s Always Right.

Once you’ve done that, come back and leave a comment with a link to your post so I can see your picture. It really is that simple.

Then, in a couple of weeks, keep your eye on my Facebook page and Twitter feed to find out if you’ve won.

Terms and conditions:

• Competition open to UK residents only
• Competition closes Monday 6th February
• The winner will be chosen from the selection of photographs posted – the messier the better

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Difficult, because Frog has chicken pox and hasn’t been particularly happy about it. And wonderful, because it’s back to school time which means the (self-proclaimed) Northern Love Machine and I swap roles again, with him going out to do his teacher job and me staying at home. Yes it’s back to the juggling of writing while Frog sleeps (which hasn’t been much this week), but at least I actually get to see her, which is a definite bonus.

The chicken pox has put my usually greedy daughter well and truly off her food. She’s even been turning her nose up at the usual favourites of banana and spaghetti bolognaise (not together – that would just be weird).

But the same can’t be said for biscuits.

My diva child has pretty much lived on HiPP Organic apple elephant biscuits this week and HiPP Organic fruit cereal bars. The cereal bars come in two flavours, Peach and Apple and Plum and Apple. The Plum ones seem to be Frog’s favourite.

The biscuits are also rather handy to fend off any chicken pox related meltdowns and seem to go nicely with a cup of warm milk and the beloved magic blanket. We’ve tried them before in fact, and loved them so much we put them in jars for all the babies at the wedding:

The fuit cereal bars have been a welcome accompaniment at breakfast time; the fact they’re GM and Preservative free means I can get away without feeling like a terrible mother for letting my 14 month old have a bar of something sweet with her breakfast.

And they’ve even helped produce a few rare smiles this week:

So if you have a grumpy child, I can highly recommend these snacks from those clever people at HiPP Organic. And guess what? They’ve given me some to give away.

So, read on  if you’d like to win this little lot:

Five winners of this competition will each receive one of the following:

• A box of HiPP Organic Apple Elephant Biscuits
• One HiPP Organic Peach & Apple Fruit Cereal Bar
• One HiPP Organic Plum & Apple Fruit Cereal Bar

To enter, all you need to do is:

• Leave a comment below telling me how old your baby is.

• Tweet (for an extra entry):

“I want to #win @HiPPOrganic goodies in the #giveaway at @mothersright http://bit.ly/mxdGiV”

Terms and conditions:

Competition closes 12noon on Friday 23rd September 2011.

The winner will be contacted within 3 working days of the competition closing.

Open to UK residents only.

Items posted directly by HiPP.

Prize is non-transferrable and there is no cash alternative.

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Disclaimer: The lovely people at HiPP Organic provided two fruit cereal bars and a box of Apple Elephant Biscuits to review for this post. Obviously they didn’t want them back afterwards. Lucky really, seeing as they’ve all been eaten.

Competition now closed.

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