<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298705001885608204</id><updated>2011-11-27T15:44:16.267-08:00</updated><category term='mum and working'/><category term='business'/><category term='babyballet'/><category term='franchise'/><category term='mumpreneurUK'/><category term='ITV'/><category term='Claire O&apos;Connor'/><category term='mumpreneur'/><category term='dance'/><category term='baby ballet'/><title type='text'>babyballet blog</title><subtitle type='html'>babyballet is the UK's favourite pre-school dance class, which is also available as a franchise.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://babyballetblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4298705001885608204/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://babyballetblog.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>babyballet ®</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05782091483056992328</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YBkBmZyeR_I/TEMTD7sz3xI/AAAAAAAAABU/dIJus11T3wE/S220/twinkle+look+up+small.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298705001885608204.post-7579208081443856046</id><published>2011-01-08T02:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-08T02:27:06.434-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='babyballet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby ballet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='franchise'/><title type='text'>Is ballet really dying out?</title><content type='html'>I'm really surprised to hear that ballet is apparently dying out. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having just signed up the 28th &lt;a href="http://www.babyballet.co.uk/"&gt;babyballet&lt;/a&gt; franchisee and almost 10,000 babyballet pupils attending babyballet dance classes every week across the UK, I find this very hard to believe. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YBkBmZyeR_I/TSg5Dx1hLwI/AAAAAAAAACU/BjwEiIvBP2s/s1600/Charlie+and+Niamh+babyballet+websize.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" n4="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YBkBmZyeR_I/TSg5Dx1hLwI/AAAAAAAAACU/BjwEiIvBP2s/s320/Charlie+and+Niamh+babyballet+websize.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My intention when creating babyballet was to provide ballet classes that were fun, fresh and funky to appeal to 'modern day' children whilst maintaining the positive elements of traditional ballet classes such as discipline, manners&amp;nbsp;and respect so hopefully this new style approach&amp;nbsp;is creating a 'ballet boom'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, if it is in fact true that ballet is dying out, at least I know that the babyballet teachers, franchisees and Head Office staff are doing everything possible to keep ballet alive by introducing babies and children to this wonderful art and surely as our network grows more and more, this will feed masses of children into the 'ballet' system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claire O'Connor &lt;br /&gt;Managing Director&lt;br /&gt;01422 329471&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/itvsmumpreneur"&gt;http://www.twitter.com/itvsmumpreneur&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4298705001885608204-7579208081443856046?l=babyballetblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://babyballetblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7579208081443856046/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4298705001885608204&amp;postID=7579208081443856046' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4298705001885608204/posts/default/7579208081443856046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4298705001885608204/posts/default/7579208081443856046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://babyballetblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/is-ballet-really-dying-out.html' title='Is ballet really dying out?'/><author><name>babyballet ®</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05782091483056992328</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YBkBmZyeR_I/TEMTD7sz3xI/AAAAAAAAABU/dIJus11T3wE/S220/twinkle+look+up+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YBkBmZyeR_I/TSg5Dx1hLwI/AAAAAAAAACU/BjwEiIvBP2s/s72-c/Charlie+and+Niamh+babyballet+websize.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298705001885608204.post-5166650707723139247</id><published>2010-12-30T01:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-30T01:41:40.555-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mumpreneurUK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ITV'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mum and working'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='babyballet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby ballet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mumpreneur'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='franchise'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='business'/><title type='text'>babyballet wins 3 more prestigious awards!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;We&amp;nbsp;are proud to Blog about our most recent Business accolades. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;These add to&amp;nbsp;our lovely&amp;nbsp;collection of Business and Entrepreneur Awards including our founder Claire O'Connor being&amp;nbsp;crowned&amp;nbsp;ITV's Mumpreneur&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babyballet.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=19&amp;amp;Itemid=33"&gt;Mum and Working Awards 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_750631507"&gt;The Hilton Hotel, St. Anne's Manor, Bracknell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_750631507"&gt;WINNER - UK's Best Franchisor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_750631507"&gt;WINNER - UK's Best Business Parent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babyballet.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=19&amp;amp;Itemid=33"&gt;MUMPRENEUR AWARDS 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babyballet.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=19&amp;amp;Itemid=33"&gt;WINNER - UK's Best Interactive Business&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;﻿ &lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="190" n4="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YBkBmZyeR_I/TRxKPLEIu3I/AAAAAAAAACE/CdvDJ5KU6vA/s200/mandw-2010-award-logo+winner.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babyballet.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=19&amp;amp;Itemid=33"&gt;babyballet - UKs Best Franchisor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1549650266"&gt;Claire O'Connor - UK's Best Business Parent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿ ﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿ ﻿﻿ ﻿﻿﻿﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1549650266" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="197" n4="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YBkBmZyeR_I/TRxKiakEWxI/AAAAAAAAACI/ol3HfNf2w4s/s200/babyballet+winners+badge+Mumpreneur+UK+Best+Interactuve+Business.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babyballet.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=19&amp;amp;Itemid=33"&gt;babyballet - Best Interactive Business&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿﻿﻿﻿ ﻿&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;﻿﻿&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4298705001885608204-5166650707723139247?l=babyballetblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://babyballetblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5166650707723139247/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4298705001885608204&amp;postID=5166650707723139247' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4298705001885608204/posts/default/5166650707723139247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4298705001885608204/posts/default/5166650707723139247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://babyballetblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/babyballet-is-uks-best-franchisor-uks.html' title='babyballet wins 3 more prestigious awards!'/><author><name>babyballet ®</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05782091483056992328</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YBkBmZyeR_I/TEMTD7sz3xI/AAAAAAAAABU/dIJus11T3wE/S220/twinkle+look+up+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YBkBmZyeR_I/TRxKPLEIu3I/AAAAAAAAACE/CdvDJ5KU6vA/s72-c/mandw-2010-award-logo+winner.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298705001885608204.post-6313138074593015026</id><published>2010-12-30T00:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-30T00:14:11.637-08:00</updated><title type='text'>New Year's Resolution 2011 - babyballet Promise To Blog More!</title><content type='html'>At babyballet everybody loves social networking but up until NOW we have to admit that we haven't&amp;nbsp;been very regular Bloggers! All this is set to change as&amp;nbsp;the babyballet team&amp;nbsp;promise to Blog&amp;nbsp;as much as we dance (well almost)&amp;nbsp;and just to make you realise we are serious about this....we are making it one&amp;nbsp;of our 2010 New Year's Resolutions!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also follow babyballet on &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/babyballet"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;aand be our friend on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/twinklethebear"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4298705001885608204-6313138074593015026?l=babyballetblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://babyballetblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6313138074593015026/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4298705001885608204&amp;postID=6313138074593015026' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4298705001885608204/posts/default/6313138074593015026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4298705001885608204/posts/default/6313138074593015026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://babyballetblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-years-resolution-2010-babyballet.html' title='New Year&apos;s Resolution 2011 - babyballet Promise To Blog More!'/><author><name>babyballet ®</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05782091483056992328</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YBkBmZyeR_I/TEMTD7sz3xI/AAAAAAAAABU/dIJus11T3wE/S220/twinkle+look+up+small.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298705001885608204.post-880133437738776208</id><published>2010-08-03T20:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-03T20:39:02.865-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Claire O&apos;Connor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='babyballet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby ballet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mumpreneur'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='franchise'/><title type='text'>babyballet nominated for Best Interactive Business in National Mumpreneur Award</title><content type='html'>Latest news!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claire O'Connor, babyballet's creator and managing Director is dancing a merry dance after finding out that she has reached the finals of the National &lt;a href="http://www.themumpreneurconference.co.uk/"&gt;Mumpreneur Awards&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for her unique babyballet franchise concept.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The awards celebrate women who combine motherhood with running a business and Claire's nomination is in the 'Most Interactive Business' category.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The winners will be announced at The National Mumpreneur Conference on September 18th 2010 at The Heart of England Conference Centre, Warwickshire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More details to follow very soon......&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4298705001885608204-880133437738776208?l=babyballetblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://babyballetblog.blogspot.com/feeds/880133437738776208/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4298705001885608204&amp;postID=880133437738776208' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4298705001885608204/posts/default/880133437738776208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4298705001885608204/posts/default/880133437738776208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://babyballetblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/babyballet-nominated-for-best.html' title='babyballet nominated for Best Interactive Business in National Mumpreneur Award'/><author><name>babyballet ®</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05782091483056992328</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YBkBmZyeR_I/TEMTD7sz3xI/AAAAAAAAABU/dIJus11T3wE/S220/twinkle+look+up+small.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298705001885608204.post-5795611640728380725</id><published>2010-07-18T07:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-18T07:35:17.579-07:00</updated><title type='text'>babyballet starts new blog</title><content type='html'>Hello! We are now officially on Blogger and will be posting everything babyballet so that you can keep in touch.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4298705001885608204-5795611640728380725?l=babyballetblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://babyballetblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5795611640728380725/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4298705001885608204&amp;postID=5795611640728380725' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4298705001885608204/posts/default/5795611640728380725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4298705001885608204/posts/default/5795611640728380725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://babyballetblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/babyballet-starts-new-blog.html' title='babyballet starts new blog'/><author><name>babyballet ®</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05782091483056992328</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YBkBmZyeR_I/TEMTD7sz3xI/AAAAAAAAABU/dIJus11T3wE/S220/twinkle+look+up+small.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
