About

Hi, I’m Jax Blunt

I’ve been keeping this blog since 2003. It’s been a rollercoaster ride – when I started, I had one child. And a bump. I now have 4 children, have miscarried three times, lost a sister, changed career, given up working and started a business based mainly around opportunities that have come out of this blog.

I’m open to further opportunities

Primarily this year, I’m looking to secure our family income and raise a separate £100,000 to put an extra storey on our house. I hope you’ll join us for the ride.

Some of my favourite posts

Where I’m from

I am from the cul de sac, from Black Jacks and paper bags of penny sweets. I am from the ordinary semi that grew and grew to fit in the … [Read More...]

Desiderata of blogging

with apologies to Max Ehrmann. Go placidly amid the blogs and the tweets, and remember what peace there may be in going offline. As … [Read More...]

Unheard cheerleaders.

Yesterday in the car on the way to a friend's house, I asked Big some more about the swimming gala. To be precise, I asked if she could hear … [Read More...]

Productivity and how not to do it.

I have, as has been mentioned many times before, a todo list problem. My todo list is out of control. If I'm catching up online with … [Read More...]

Tech posts from my other blog

CSS Tip: Absolute Positioning Inside Relative Positioning
I was having a little problem with styling a WordPress/Genesis Author Box. The normal layout is that there is an avatar in the top left hand corner around which the text flows- like this: However, what the client wanted was for the all text to be indented, in a neat column to the right of [...]The post CSS Tip: Absolute Positioning Inside Relative Positionin […]
How to improve your page load speed using pingdom.
Why would you check your page load speed in the first place? If you’re like me, you hate hanging around waiting for a page to load. So have you considered checking how speedy your own blog is? There are some simple tests you can do to check what’s going on – one resource I’ve used [...]The post How to improve your page load speed using pingdom. appeared firs […]
WordPress under attack – how to protect your site from the admin account hack.
There’s an Ars Technica article flying around right now about a massive attack on wordpress sites around the internet attempting to build a super botnet. The attack is working by targeting a particular user account that the vast majority of sites have, including this one. According to CloudFlare’s Prince, the distributed attacks are attempting to [...]The po […]