• Do Your Kids Brush Their Teeth?

    By A Modern Military Mother on October 2, 2012
    Aquafresh have produced a video with handy tips to make brush time more enjoyable which can be seen at: For more information, or to sign up to The Club for fun tips on how to get kids brushing or for a free sample of Aquafresh Fresh & Minty, please visit http://www.aquafreshclub.co.uk The video comes on the back of research that [...]
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  • Why Do We Blog? What’s It All About?

    By A Modern Military Mother on September 26, 2012
    I haven’t blogged one off for ages. The sort of blog post where it’s actually me talking about whatever is ruminating around in my mind. I have been pondering on a few posts that I haven’t written. Posts such as: What is the role of a mother? or Why are women so self-sacrificing? If you want to pick up these [...]
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  • New Facebook App to Support Our Soldiers

    By A Modern Military Mother on September 21, 2012
    Just a few weeks away from another round of Army homecomings and deployments to Afghanistan, a new Facebook App launched by ABF The Soldiers’ Charity today (Monday 10 September 2012) is offering a fun and easy way for anyone and everyone to ‘enlist’ and support The Army Family. ABF The Soldiers’ Charity – the Army’s national charity since 1944 – [...]
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  • French Windsurfer Thomas Traversa Rules the Waves at KIA Cold Hawaii PWA World Cup

    By A Modern Military Mother on September 20, 2012
    French windsurfer, Thomas Traversa sent shockwaves through the world windsurfing tour by beating the German double world champion, Philip Köster, in the super final of the KIA Cold Hawaii PWA World Cup on Thursday afternoon. In a re-run of David beating Goliath, Traversa, from La Ciotat, the small French town near Marseilles where the cinema was invented, rode the wave [...]
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  • Lightning must strike twice for Frenchman to beat German force of nature

    By A Modern Military Mother on September 20, 2012
    It is David against Goliath, the young king against the new star, The German heavyweight against the French flyweight. Thomas Traversa, who upset the formbook on Wednesday morning, could be forgiven for being intimidated when he meets the German giant of windsurfing, Philip ‘the kid’ Köster, in the super final of the 2012 KIA Cold Hawaii PWA World Cup. After [...]
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  • Early Morning Surf Leads to Surprise French Domination at KIA Cold Hawaii Windsurfing World Cup

    By A Modern Military Mother on September 19, 2012
    Electric wave riding from frenchman Thomas Traversa saw him ambush the firm favourites to win the single elimination round of the KIA Cold Hawaii PWA World Cup in Klitmøller, Denmark, on Wednesday morning and sending shockwaves through the world cup competitors. In the biggest upset in wave sailing in the last two years, Traversa, the 26-year-old from Marseilles, beat the [...]
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  • Windsurfers Fear Black Wednesday In Cold Hawaii

    By A Modern Military Mother on September 18, 2012
    The 12 riders left in the single elimination competition of the KIA Cold Hawaii PWA Windsurfing World Cup face a black Wednesday on the water in notoriously tough onshore conditions in Klitmøller tomorrow. Windsurfing’s oldest enemy – a lack of wind – kept the sails grounded in Klitmøller on Tuesday. The riders were on standby for the evening session that [...]
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  • 2012 KIA Cold Hawaii PWA World Cup #windwavewatch Day 2

    By A Modern Military Mother on September 18, 2012
    Wind & Wave Watch – #coldhawaii #windwavewatch 2012 KIA Cold Hawaii PWA World Cup Day 2 Location: Klitmøller, North West Jutland, Denmark. Wind Direction: South-west Wind Speed: 16-18 knots, gusting 20 Wave size: 2 metres Water temperature: 14 degrees Weather: Mostly cloudy with rain squalls Temperature: 12 degrees Schedule Start: 9am (local time) The wave sailing action was due to [...]
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  • The Stars Shine In Cold Hawaii – KIA Cold Hawaii PWA Windsurfing World Cup

    By A Modern Military Mother on September 17, 2012
    Day One Victor Fernandez Lopez was the brightest light on the first day of competition at the KIA Cold Hawaii PWA World Cup in Klitmøller on Monday, as it seemed the organisers would make the riders compete under the moonlight. In shifty conditions veering between westerlies and south westerlies of 16-18 knots, the lack of wind was a great leveller. [...]
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  • Bulk Buy Bargains With Groupon and Eating Cake

    By A Modern Military Mother on September 12, 2012
    I have to say that being a Yorkshire lass I am quite partial to a bargain. Especially if the bargain is something that I have actually wanted for a while. Now I have coveted one of those electrical cake mixing machines for sometime because I am definitely not one of life’s natural bakers - see AMMMTV – Lemon Drizzle Cake [...]
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