Meta-blogging

How to achieve a good blog/life balance

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What makes a good blog/life balance?

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Blogiversary and Christmas giveaway

(This giveaway is now closed.) Today is my sixth blogiversary! To celebrate I am giving away a £20 Amazon.co.uk voucher to one reader as a way of thanking you for being part of my little community over the last few years. The winner will be announced on December 11th, just in time to do some [...]

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Blogging and parenting

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When I wrote a post about coping with four children under six I could never have imagined that, over time, I would have thousands of visitors to it (many searching on search engines for tips for coping with lots of small children), that it would be posted on parenting forums across the world and that [...]

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Coming out: anonymous vs public blogging

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I’ve been blogging now for five and half years. I’ve blogged my way through the joy of my children, post natal depression, a failure to thrive baby, two pregnancies, one of my children falling seriously ill and all the ups and downs that life with four small children brings. In all that time, I’ve done [...]

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Skipping across the internet

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Welcome to my new blog: my final move to a web address I’m very pleased to have. I haven’t had a chance to pretty it up yet, but I expect I might get a header up when I have a few minutes, sometime early next year Please let me know you found me! Otherwise I [...]

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Voices of motherhood

Last year I received an email so hateful that I felt sick for weeks. It was an email criticising that fact that I wrote about my son and about his illness on my blog, how I wrote about parenting instead of actually parenting and how I was doing that for money and pageviews and links [...]

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