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Use this The Body Shop online promotional code to get 25% off your order, including sale items. Might be worth pointing your partner in the direction of this offer, especially with Valentine's Day coming up.

Click here to use your The Body Shop promotional code

• Discount: 25%
• Promotional code: WELCOME
• Expires: unknown

To use this code, go to the Shopping Basket page and enter it in the relevant box at the top of the page. The discount will be immediately applied to your order.

I tested it out on a pot of Coconut Body Butter. This is in one of the special offers on the site at the moment. There's 50% off the top ten best selling products in 2011. The Coconut Body Butter was priced at £12.50. The sale had reduced this to £6.25, and the code took another £1.56 off. Delivery costs £2.99, although it is free on orders over £15.

Thanks to CockneyHarry at HUKD!

Amazon have a MaByLand Overnight Changing Bag on sale for 51% off the RRP of £51.99. It’s reduced by £26.65 to £25.34.

• Pack for the whole trip in the MaByLand Overnight Changing Bag Set

I don’t think I’ll ever stop being surprised at the exuberant prices of nappy bags. They just seem so overly expensive, when there are fab options available at much less. For me £51 for a nappy bag is too much, but £25 is much closer to my comfort zone.

This particular piece of baby-equipment gold comes with a detachable changing mat with pockets, inbuilt bottle warmer packet and two detachable clear multi-purpose PVC bags. It also has an adjustable and detachable shoulder strap and has been fully safety tested – not sure what for: you don’t carry the baby in it!

According to the description it is spacious and has lots of different sized pockets, and is made from an easy to wipe clean waterproof material. There’s only one reviewer who commented that the changing mat looked larger on the picture than it was in reality.

If these things influence your decisions, the MaByLand Overnight Changing Bag Set was a finalist in ghte Practical Parenting and Pregnancy Awards and won a silver award in the BizzieBaby awards for 2010-2011 too.

Thanks to JennyWren1980 at HUKD

The Zhu Zhu babies dance recital set is down from the originally hideous £22.97 to a much tastier £7, a saving of £15.97 off the original price. Nice. Tesco is having a very enjoyable sale at the moment and I am loving the discounts as I have a ton of birthday parties coming up!

• Click here to get Zhu Zhu babies at Tesco Direct

The Zhu Zhu pets range confuses me. At first I loved them and wanted one – I probably wanted it more than my daughter did. Then I nabbed a few in a sale, paying something silly like £1 each, and now they sit, in their dusty habitat, covered in a layer of the same dust.

The batteries died at around the same time as interest in them did. They don’t DO anything and all the habitats are stupidly expensive. Now you have the Zhu Zhu babies range and this toy will apparently let your Zhu Zhu pets twirl the night away in front of an audience. If you have the babies and the hamsters, the price is right, otherwise run screaming.

Thanks to oxananoguchi at HUKD!

The Monster High dolls and sets are as hard to find as hen’s teeth at the moment so not only is the fact that this is a low price really good, but the fact that they have any of these items in stock! This particular kit is ace – you get to create your very own monster for £13.49 instead of £17.99.

• Click here to get a monster at Smyths Toys

Dr. Frankenstein isn’t the only person who can create monsters. Now you can too. The Monster High Create A Monster set provides your offspring with all the body parts (hahahah) and fashions needed to create unique, scary and cool creatures.

Each Monster High Create a Monster kit comes with a torso, two sets of limbs, two heads, one hairpiece, two fashions and a unique add on such as wings. I love the fact that I am writing about a set that includes limbs and a torso, it’s surreal!

The pieces can be assembled in more than 250 ways so kids can make as many weird combinations as they like.

Thanks to geebeegooner at HUKD!

If you've managed to get the crayons out of your heart shaped mould, here's another lovely and easy rice crispy hearts recipe that you can use it for and I'm sure the kids will love. It's going to get messy... but what fun!

The Book People may have the worst service ever but they do have lots and lots of lovely book bargains to enjoy. Today they are selling two books of magical recipes – Disney Princess and Winnie the Pooh – for £2.99 including delivery.

• Click here to get cooking with The Book People

Each recipe book is just £2.99 and you can get free delivery using the code HELP11. These books are both hardcover so they can cope with being bashed about in the kitchen a bit and combine lovely stories with lovely recipes to make and enjoy together.

The cookbooks include recipes such as Belle’s Dainty Cupcakes or Pooh’s Yummy Honey Cakes (yum) and includes stories to make the baking move nice and smoothly. Children can also record their cooking successes and create their own recipes.

These books are great for teaching kids how to enjoy cooking and to be proud of what they have made so far. I am particularly impressed with the fact that they are wipe clean. Nice.

Thanks to wishihadadonkey at HUKD!

BabyBlooms are a “new baby” gift company with gorgeous ideas for spoiling parents and their little ones.  We were sent a baby clothes bouquet to review and tell you all about.

When my daughter was born, we received a baby clothes bouquet from my husand’s company and I remember sitting on the bed nursing my newborn, and trying to unwrap with one hand what I thought was a really unique presentation and gift idea.

Instead of flowers that die, a clothes bouquet looks like a bunch of flowers, and gives you the same ‘Ah! Flowers!’ feeling, but they actually have a practical application: the flowers are made up out of baby clothes.

I'm a huge fan of baby gyms and will happily pay more for a decent one - luckily for those in the market for a baby gym, Kiddicare have reduced the price of this Garden Friends baby gym down to £15 from £30.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Garden Friends baby gym

I really like the look of this Garden Friends baby gym - the colours are bright without being gender specific; hurrah!  It's suitable from birth and has different textures and various activities that will amuse and entertain little ones.

It has a padded mat that features various friendly looking garden characters and leaves, two arches that criss-cross to each corner and three detachable cute play bugs to hang from them.

There are so many positive features to having a baby gym in the house for your little one to experience and play with.

When they are first born it gives them a different place on which to lie flat, and an alternative view of their little world; when they're a bit bigger, the hanging bugs will give them an incentive to reach out and develop their motor skills by batting and trying to grab them.

If you spend over £29.99 then delivery is free otherwise, standard delivery is going to set you back £4.95.

Thanks to blackpoolfc at HUKD

Tesco are selling this Melissa and Doug Vehicle Sound puzzle for £5.96 instead of the usual £9.99.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Melissa and Doug Vehicle Sound puzzle

Now you should know by now that I'm a bit of a puzzle fan; you should also know, if you're a regular PlayPennies reader anyway, that I'm not a fan of toys with bells, whistles, buzzers or unnecessary flashing lights - I'm a bit of a toy purest.

So it might come as a surprise when I say...I think this Melissa and Doug Vehicle Sound puzzle looks FAB, because it requires two AAA batteries to make NOISE.  Yes, a puzzle (which I love) that makes noise (that I don't usually love).

When your little one matches the vehicle puzzle piece to its space and puts the two together, the puzzle will make the noise of that vehicle; awesome.  A perfect way to reinforce the correct action along with cause and effect.

You can collect our Melissa and Doug Vehicle Sound puzzle for free in-store and I really wouldn' t bother with being ripped off £5 for home delivery, even if it is next day delivery - I don't care, it's just not worth it for a fiver.

Thanks to wishihadadonkey at HUKD 

We've featured, and reviewed, this Gro Blackout blind before and it remains one of our favourite baby 'things' - Mothercare are currently selling them for £18.99, rather than their usual £29.99.

Click HERE to take a look at the Gro Blackout Blind

There are few things worse than trying to sleep when it's broad daylight outside, other than having a baby who won't/can't go to sleep because it's light outside and wakes up with the birds during the light summer months.

Sleep deprivation is a terrible thing and, with the nights drawing out, it won't be long before it's light at stupid o'clock, which is okay at home if you have blackout blinds or curtains, but what happens when you go away?

I resorted to all sorts when my teenagers were younger - there was nothing like this Gro Blackout blind then - towels shut in windows, black bin liners taped to window frames (very effective but VERY ugly!), you won't have to do that if you have a Gro Blackout blind - they are adjustable and fit to almost any window shape.

The Gro Blackout blind measures an impressive 200cms x 135cms  but will fit small windows too cleverly using, as one reviewer put it, ‘those elasticated waistband thingys you sometimes get on kids trousers’ to shrink it to fit.

You can collect your Gro Blackout Blind for free in-store, or pay £4.95 for standard home delivery.

Thanks to hillsbills at HUKD

Use this BHS online promotional discount code to get 25% off your order. The code starts tomorrow and can't be used in conjunction with any other offers.

Click here to use your BHS promotional code

• Discount: 25%
• Promotional code: VCODEBONUS
• Expires: 3rd February 2012

To use this code, first make sure it is Friday. The code goes live on the 27th of January. Then, go to the Shopping Cart page and enter the code in the Voucher Code box. It will be applied automatically to your order. BHS list all the savings made in red, down the centre column.

Since the code doesn't start until tomorrow, I couldn't test it out. There are some restrictions. The code can't be used with any other offers and I assume this means sale items as well. You can't use it on furniture or electricals. You can use it instore and online, although I'm not sure how you use it instore.

Delivery is free if you can collect in store. Otherwise standard delivery of 3 to 5 days is £3.94, while express delivery (next working day) is £4.95.

Thanks to djmetsandy at HUKD!

There’s 44% off the PINTOY Workbench by John Crane at Amazon at the moment, making this £62.99 wooden workbench only £34.99, saving you £28.

• Saw and hammer away with the PINTOY workbench

I’m not particularly clued up on all the workbenches out there, but I see a fair few pass through here from time to time, and I think this is by far one of the better quality workbench toys I’ve seen. I also think it’s a pretty good price for a large-ish wooden toy.

Apparently this set will help your little builder understand the basics of construction skills and it comes with an impressive selection of tools and wooden shapes – or so says the description. The first reviewer thinks there aren’t enough bits to construct much of anything at all.  Reading through the reviews, it’s ideal for younger kids, but a bit limited in scope as they get older (nearer 3).

Overall, however, the reviewers found it sturdy, good quality and most of them thought it was money well spent.

Thanks to goonertillidie at HUKD

The Argos sale is definitely cooking this year with items being reduced well below their usual retail prices. This is another brilliant deal with the Mega Bloks Squad Fire Patrol Station down from £59.99 to only £19.99 which is a lot less than half price!

• Click here to get some Mega Bloks with Argos

Kids can use the Mega Bloks Squad Fire Patrol Station to build their own fire safety building and get ready to rescue the town. The detailed set includes the station building and has loads of cool vehicles as well.

You get a fire patrol chopper landing pad and four unique vehicles to help save the day. The Mega Bloks kit also has five figures and all the usual building accessories that comes to a total of 750 pieces all together. The set is ideal for kids over the age of six and is a whopper, especially for this very tasty low price.

Thanks to kwan8 at HUKD!

Bath time has always been a favourite play time in our house, and I’m not convinced that it plays part in the ‘bed time routine’ as it seems to be massively invigorating if anything! We also have more bath toys in the bath than toiletries, and we’ve recently added to them with the Natural Rubber Bath Toys from Hevea.

The Pond is a set consisting of a duck, fish and frog, and they’ve been great fun at bath time as we’ve talked about the animals they represent, had great fun splashing as the frog leaps and made bizarre noises that I’m sure the critters themselves would be proud of.

I was initially unconvinced that these would go down well. They have only natural rubber colouring, don’t squeak ad don’t spray water. I just didn’t see them being much entertainment. My two year old saw it differently though. In fact for the first week of having them in the bath, none of the other toys even got a look in.

Personally, I love that they are PVC and phthalate free, and have no nasties leaching into the water and it’s fine if they go in her mouth.

They’re made from sustainable rubber trees and produced in Spain,  and they won’t be in landfill decades after we’re gone – in fact as a natural product they probably won’t outlive us.

As a mum, I love that they have no hole in the bottom, so they don’t suck up water, meaning if they’re left unplayed with for a few weeks, I’m not going to find gross green water in them.

The packaging is recyclable, and can even be used to make cut outs, so there’s another activity in the box itself.

I’m really pleased with the Hevea Natural Rubber Bath Toys. They have a nice smell, are natural, good for the environment, and have no negatives for my child.

Argos has reduced the fancy and extremely cool Spykee Vox Interactive Robot to £32.99. It used to cost £99.99 so you are paying a lot less than half price for a very cool toy that kids will absolutely love. And parents too…

• Click here to get Spykee at Argos

Spykee Vox responds to your voice and to around 38 different predefined voice commands. If you give him an order he will obey you and beetle off to do as he is told. Not only that, but Spykee can also receive iPod Nano and iPod touch ranges and is compatible with other MP3 players too.

The Universal IR remote allows Spykee to control your electronic devices when asked and you can either use his pre-programmed features or create your own. You can add movements, emoticons, give him a name and insert new sounds.

He has an alarm clock function and he needs six AA batteries and three AAA batteries none of which are included. Ideal for kids over the age of eight, he is a monster robot gizmo.

Thanks to kwan8 at HUKD!

Ocado is selling the value boxes of Huggies Size 3 Super Dry nappies for £11.98 in a buy one get the second one free deal at the moment. That’s 87 nappies per pack and 174 nappies in total for under £12. Not bad at all.

• Click here to get Huggies with Ocado

The Huggies Super Dry packs have Disney’s Winnie the Pooh designs on them and are super breathable to help prevent nappy rash and sore bums. The buy one get the second one free offer is on from today until 29 January so if your baby’s bum fits these, then you can stock up for ages.

The price works out to around 7p per nappy and you’re only allowed a maximum of 20 in one order (although that would be a lot of nappies!). However, the site only allows a minimum order value of £40 so you may want to bump up the spend by peeking at many of the other low deals they have on at the moment, like low cost Aptamil.

Thanks to cdpurcell at HUKD!

Lynley’s feature on how to create utterly awesome Valentine’s Day cards got me thinking. I am not a fan of the day either but I do like the idea of using it to do something creative and fun without spending money on cheesy cards or sparkly rubbish. So I decided to find some brilliantly unusual ideas that could make great Valentines gifts as well as translate into other presents for birthdays or Easter or Mother’s Day.

Tesco have reduced the price of this incredibly expensive LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle down to £77, its original price was/is £102.97; crazy!

• Click HERE to take a look at the LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle

If you have a young Harry Potter and LEGO fan and are looking for a 'main birthday present', then you might want to pop over to Tesco and take a closer look at the LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle.

Inside it you'll find Dumbledore's office, complete with spiral staircase (sherbert lemons!), the Slytherin and Gryffindor common rooms, the Restricted Section of the library and the Great Hall.

The LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle is fully decorated in Slytherin and Gryffindor colours and comes with 10 minifigures including Harry, Snape, Voldemort and two Dementors.

It's suitable for ages eight years and older, although with a fair bit of help I'm sure younger Harry Potter fans would enjoy having their own LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle too.

Home delivery will cost you £5 and an adult will need to sign for it, alternatively you can collect your LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle in-store for free.

Thanks to fish1234567 at HUKD

Yesterday it was reported that Amanda Holden had been in hospital under observation since Monday.  She checked herself in and as a result had to miss filming in Blackpool for the new series of Britain's Got Talent (mind you with some of the acts that audition, you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise!).

Friends, speaking about her hospitalisation said, "She went in under her own steam. She was kept in hospital under observation on Monday night and is staying at least another night."  

It all sounded purely precautionary until very early this morning, when it was revealed that Amanda had given birth, come perilously close to death due to massive blood loss and was in intensive care!

Red House Books are selling 'Stuck' by Oliver Jeffers, in hardback, for £5.49, rather than its list price of £10.99.

• Click HERE to flick through the pages of Stuck

I love discovering new books and this is just one of those occasions - I've not come across Stuck, by Oliver Jeffers, before and it looks GREAT.

It tells the story of a little boy, Floyd, whose kite gets stuck in a tree.  He throws his shoe into the tree in a bid to knock his kite down, but his shoe gets stuck too!

So Floyd throws his other shoe in the tree, which just gets stuck along with the kite and his first thrown shoe, as does the ladder, the lorry and even a whale.

Stuck is described as a stunning picture book that's hilarious to read out loud, it's suitable for ages three and over although I'm sure younger children will adore listening to the tale of Floyd and his stuck kite.

I wish I had a free delivery code for you, although the cost of single item delivery is only £1.95.

Thanks to andywedge at HUKD