Browsing Tag

mummy blogger

  • Back from the abyss

    Tweet As some of you noticed, I’ve been largely absent from this blog and social media for the past 10 days. Sometimes something happens in your real life that completely obliterates everything else. The…

    October 13, 2013
  • Cynical blogging: Please make it stop

    Tweet When I started blogging four years ago I had no idea just quite how many opportunities it would lead to. It sounds ridiculous now but I didn’t even realise blogging networks existed for…

    April 13, 2013
  • In praise of the Mums Only holiday

    Tweet No 1 Son was about 18 months old when I was asked to go on a work trip abroad for the first time. There were two reasons I didn’t feel I could turn…

    April 11, 2013
  • Blogging royalty? There’s no such thing

    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…

    January 21, 2013
  • It’s your blog – for goodness’ sake, do what you want with it

    Tweet There’s a saying among journalists: ‘honour amongst thieves.’ It’s a sort of unwritten rule that journalists support each other, which is why you’ll often find journalists defending rivals (unless they’ve done something really indefensible).…

    December 16, 2012
  • How to be a successful blogger

    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,…

    November 11, 2012
  • Someone tried to destroy my blog

    Tweet I had a lot on my mind last week – my son’s exam results, a busy time at work – and in the grand scheme of things, it wasn’t a matter of life or…

    August 23, 2012
  • Please don’t tell me what to blog

    Tweet Last week I was a bit taken aback when a couple of people on Twitter told me they were surprised at a blog post I’d written. The implication was that it wasn’t the…

    June 19, 2012