Review: Beets Blu Heart Rate Monitor and Pager Tag

Recently I was sent a couple of products from the Beets Blu range to review. Beets Blu are specialists in the fields of mobile apps, fitness technologies and electronics. Now I love using devices which pair with my smartphone, so I was excited to review the products and see how they worked.


The Beets Blu Heart Rate Monitor is a portable device which pairs with your smartphone or computer to measure your heart rate during workouts. The monitor helps you to control your heart rate, which enables you to achieve training tasks such as working on strengthening the cardiovascular system, and stamina. It also helps avoid your heart from working too hard and over training. The heart rate monitor is suitable for both men and women and has a range of up to ten metres.

Now I have to confess, I am not an athlete in any way, shape or form, but I have started exercising again more regularly again recently and so I found the heart rate monitor really useful to measure how I was doing. You do have to ensure that it is in the right place, and it is tight enough to avoid moving whilst exercising. I did find that it stayed in place whilst I exercised and afterwards, I was able to look at the associated app I downloaded on my smart phone and get a report of my heart rate performance during the workout. I would definitely recommend buying it and trying it out!

I also received a Beets Blu Pager Tag Bluetooth key finder to review. I was so glad that I received this as I am forever losing my car keys! The Pager Tag attaches to your bunch of car keys very easily and acts as a location monitor and alarm to help you find them.

The BeetsBlu Pager Tag allows you to track it via an app on your mobile phone. It can help you to track your valuables and detect where lost or forgotten items are. The Pager Tag will also alert you when your item is outside of a certain range, via sound and LED lights. It can track location, and it also has an alarm which can be triggered to sound from the Beets Blu app.

I was very impressed with the Beets Blu Pager Tag, and it is definitely something I can see myself using. You can also set it via your phone to trigger every time you enter and leave a location, and every time the pager tag is taken out of range. I have to say that the PagerTag is quite sensitive, so you do have to be careful what settings you use, or you may find that when the connection with devices is lost (i.e phone upstairs keys downstairs), the Pager Tag is sending notifications to your phone more often than needs be.  However, I found the Pager Tag really easy to install and pair with the app, which I downloaded, The app is also very intuitive to use.

Although you can only pair your key finder with one device, you can actually pair more than one key finder per device. I recently had my handbag stolen from the supermarket and I kicked myself for not having a tracking device in there. Now that we have this sort of technology available, I am definitely going to get another Pager Tag to keep in my handbag as the disruption was huge when my handbag went missing and a tracking device would have helped me to locate it.

I would definitely recommend both of these devices to others as they definitely help to monitor heart rate and also to keep track of your belongings.

Beets Blu products are available via Amazon as per the links above.

Disclosure: Product offered in consideration for review. 

WWE at the Roald Dahl Museum

Last weekend we were invited to the Roald Dahl Museum, one of the kids favourite places to an event which linked WWE and Roald Dahl together - an unlikely combination you might think! Celebrating World Book Day, We were there to meet WWE's very own "BFG" Jack Swagger and learn more about the Wrestle mania - WWE's reading challenge which aims to inspire children through reading.

During the event Jack told us why he loves Roald Dahl so much, citing how he loves that Dahl's words jump off the page and create a wonderful story. For a willing and ready audience, Jack read an excerpt from The Twits with good expression and characterised the characters very well. He really engaged the children in the story and also shared one of his quotes from Roald Dahl:

“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

After story time was a chance for the kids and adults to ask questions. Through a group interview, we found out that:

• Jacks favourite book is the Twits.
• He takes Inspiration from Sophie in the BFG - you may be tiny but you can be the whole world to somebody. No matter how down you are, you can always be successful.
• Jack chose to become a wrestler from age of five as he loved wrestling and particular wrestlers before him like Kurt Engel, Chris Jericho and the Undertaker.
• He grew up and was inspired watching the movies Matilda and James and Giant Peach.
• He has an English bulldog named beefcake. 
• We also found out that Jack had to write lots of Book reports at school and he advised the kids to stay in school because the smarter you are, the better sports person you will be. Whilst some children may think that literacy doesn't apply to them because they want to be a sportsman (perhaps a famous footballer or rugby player), actually sports is always evolving, so some children may not see the point, but the smarter you are, the more it will help you learn how to take care of your body. However you take care of your body, you must also take care of your mind. 
• As Jack is really tall, he was actually directed towards basketball at school but he really wanted to do wrestling. 
• Jack's final piece of advice was that can do everything - you just have to believe!

My girls definitely enjoyed the event and found it very inspiring meeting Jack and learning more about Roald Dahl.

The event was followed by a visit around the museum. Where the children had lots of fun enjoying all of the different activities and exhibits that the Museum offers.

Thanks to the Roald Dahl museum and WW E for inviting us.

Disclosure: we were invited to the event and received a free goodie bag.

A Celebratory Weekend away

We've been busy again recently!! Last week we took a trip to see Matilda the Musical which was fantastic. It is hands down one of the best musicals we have ever seen.

This was followed by a weekend in a hotel to celebrate the in-laws fifty years of marriage which is quite something isn't it!

The girls of course had a wonderful time - too many late nights in bed, but hey, it's only once every so often!

We ended up with a suite after a small bone of contention with our sardine-like family room and so the kids ended up with their own bedroom and a TV of their own - which was heaven for them - we had to prise them away.. but then, that's half the fun of staying in Hotels!

We also had our first trip to the beach of the year, when we left the mainland briefly and drove to Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey. It was a very cold and windy visit but a beautiful day!

Here are some pictures from our weekend: