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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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Skipping across the internet

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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Facebook fun

I’m spending quite a bit of time on Facebook these days. Please feel free to add me as a friend if you use Facebook – I’ve really enjoyed getting to know many readers in a more interactive forum. Here’s how to find me: my profile on Facebook. Just say you are a reader of this [...]

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Asking for help

When it became clear that William was going to be ill on and off for a long time, probably forever, I learnt to ask people for help. Despite being a blogger I am essentially a very private person and unbearably self-reliant. Asking for help definitely does NOT come naturally to me. But when news of [...]

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Does blogging empower women? A very short essay.

My youngest son is now a glorious seventeen months old. It’s a good age, seventeen months: old enough to make your feelings known, young enough to elicit a hug simply by looking up, eyes brimming with unshed tears, old enough to bait your brothers, young enough to have a mother’s unquestioning protection from them. The [...]

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