Tweet I’ve written so many features on How to start a blog for magazines and websites I kind of forgot that I hadn’t actually written a post about it on The Mum Blog. Doh.…
Tweet The theme of this week’s Gallery is ‘happy’. And one of my favourite photos from the past 18 months has to be this one of the Gallery owner herself, Tara Lara*, along with…
Tweet Yesterday I received an email from a marketing/SEO company on behalf of a major supermarket bank. It had all the usual waffle – we love your blog, we think we’re a perfect fit…
Tweet We’re into blogging awards season again, which like the BAFTAs and the Oscars is now an annual event, albeit without the designer gowns. There has been a spate of begging ‘vote for me’…
Tweet I can’t believe that a week on Sunday I’m off to the Caribbean with this lot. I first got to know them on a trip to Florida and since then we’ve become great…
Tweet I can hardly believe I’m typing this, but in just over a fortnight’s time I’m going to be jetting off on a Caribbean cruise, with five fabulous mummy bloggers (aka ‘a gaggle’), courtesy…
Tweet During the four years I’ve been blogging I’ve often heard the term ‘blogging royalty’ bandied about. It really is the most nonsensical, meaningless phrase. In Hollywood the term ‘royalty’ is used to describe…
Tweet I’ve seen a lot of nonsense talked about blogging over the past year, particularly by self-proclaimed ‘doyennes’ and ‘experts’ of blogging, and also by non-bloggers (I believe that if you’re not a blogger,…
Tweet No I don’t mean *those* kind of benefits. These four women – Tara, Laura, Erica and Becky – are known to lots of you as bloggers; but they’ve become four of my favourite…
Tweet My weekend started with a blow dry and ended with copious amounts of cava and cake at my niece’s birthday tea. There was also a mad Challenge Anneka-style taxi ride to rescue English…