A meme, if you haven’t come across the word before, is an idea spread across blog posts. Typically where you answer questions and then pass them on to another blogger and ask them to answer the same questions. It’s an interesting way to get to know other bloggers and for readers to get to know you slightly better <gulp> I was tagged in a Mother’s Day meme by Kate on
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#Bloggerweddingalbum
I have recently started taking part in Tara Cain’s weekly Gallery as it is great to look up old photos every week and post them on here. The themes have been great so far. This week however Tara is doing something slightly different. A bloggers wedding album Asking bloggers to post a photo from their wedding. How could I resist? Mr B and I got married in 2008, at the
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Social Media Marketing
With the boom in online social media such as Facebook and Twitter comes the boom in businesses offering to boost companies presence on the internet, aka social media marketing. But do they? Or are they having the opposite effect and actually turning us off? I had this debate at 8am on Sunday morning (how sad is my life?) when I saw one of these companies clogging up my timeline
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Micro Scooters and the humble apology
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about a nonsense survey commissioned by Micro Scooters who wanted to find out how stressful the school run was. I basically said the survey was all made up. I scoffed. I mocked. I basically took the piss. Sorry to swear but I don’t know how else to say it. And then two days later I got a tweet from Sara at the PR
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Twitter and the endless FFs
When I first saw #FFS I genuinely thought it was a shortened version of “For F*ck Sake” as it was then followed by the name of a fellow Tweeter. I thought this showed somebody who had really annoyed you that week and that they should be avoided. Then one day I was on somebody’s #FFs list and it said something like “Lovely Tweeter, go Follow”. I couldn’t work out how
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The Gallery — Light
Tara’s theme for The Gallery this week is Light. Natural light. And lots of it. Inspired by the thought that spring is just around the corner (despite us going out for lunch on Sunday in a blizzard). I could have so easily picked a photograph from our holiday but didn’t want to bore you with yet another photograph from Barbados. The light in some of those photos is extraordinary. But
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Oh boy, you did all show me yours
I blogged last week about the contents of my handbag and asked for people to send me theirs. And send them you did! A handbag is a handbag isn’t it? What do we need to carry in it? A purse and some keys. Really that is all we really need. Oh and our phone. We don’t need to carry the various other assorted debris we drag around with us. Yet
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Sport Relief — The online mile
As I sit here laughing at Let’s Dance on BBC1 it is easy to think that is all celebs do for Sport Relief. A bit of dancing about whilst raising money. We forget though that these celebs put themselves in the spotlight and out of their comfort zones to raise money for this amazing charity. And no celeb has been out of their comfort zone more than John
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My Top Ten — by @estateagentdad
A return of my Saturday Top Ten Tune list. Havent done one for a while and I have missed them! This one though, is well worth the wait, it’s a belter. Duran Duran — Careless Memory Not the most well known perhaps of Duran Duran’s stuff, and it wasn’t my favourite record at the time, however, over the years it has grown to be a favourite – good break up
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Mum of the Year Award
A short list was announced yesterday for Mum of the Year. Never before in the history of jaw droppingly ridiculous lists has my jaw dropped so low. I cannot actually repeat what I said when I saw the list as my in laws and parents (as well as my children) read this blog and it is somewhat rude. Now I am in no position to judge any other woman’s parenting
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The Gallery — Friends
Over on Tara’s blog this week the theme for The Gallery is Friends. This picture pretty much sums up friendship to me: One of our wedding presents in 2008 from my parents was flights and use of their villa in Barbados (and dinner at The Cliff but that is whooooole different blog post). During one cocktail hour in a great little beach bar we overhead a
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Thinking Slimmer — Weeks four and five
Sorry I didn’t do a post last week, I was having real problems with my blog and couldn’t access it to write the post and then events overtook me. So anyway. Here we are. Over a month into this now and what can I say? I am still listening to the Godly Trevor. He is just a part of my routine now and I if I stopped listening to him