Category: Blogging

  • Saturday snippets 8 June 2013

    {Writing} tech post on seo. You can probably see a snippet in the sidebar. {Travelling} to London again. Hyde Park for the #BigIF. {Wondering} why there weren’t any signs. Maybe some of the other people in the park would have come too. {Learning} about the issues facing Tanzania and DRC (Congo). Different countries, situations, histories.…

  • Badgers, banknotes and benefits.

    Badgers, banknotes and benefits.

    Copyright (c) 123RF Stock Photos Everywhere you turn these days it seems there’s a new petition, new hashtag, new cause. I’m not quite sure what this says about us, that we’re basically begging for people to listen to us, to change their behaviour, to recognise that we’re there. Perhaps it’s related to the British queueing…

  • Female faces – banknotes and Doctor Who.

    So, there’s this little campaign started by The Women’s Room on to make sure we retain a female presence on banknotes. Elizabeth Fry is about to be removed, and I think the idea is that she’s going to be replaced with Winston Churchill. Which means the sole remaining female presence is the Queen, and she’s…

  • Saturday snippets 1 June 2013

    {Travelling} home from Cybher. {Eating} posh canapes. {Drinking} coffee and red wine. {Learning} about dslr cameras and g+. {Meeting} loads of friends, old and new. {Feeling} tired and happy and proud of my elder daughter spreading her wings. {Snapshots} Big went to her first blogging conference. Small showed real maturity over disastrous happenings with his…

  • This time 10 years ago

    We were in the last few minutes of being a three person family. Small was born at 11.18 I think. Although I had a blog, it wasn’t then ingrained in me to write everything up instantly, and I don’t think I ever wrote his birth story here (must have a hunt and check). He was…

  • Saturday snippets 25 May 2013

    {Driving} miles and miles and miles in a loan car to {Drink (and eat)} with friends. {Carrying} sewing that is untouched {Hoping} the sun will shine tomorrow. Snapshots Big has her first blogger review campaign underway. Small may have learnt that mummy is always right. Smallest is desperately trying to decode letters and Tigerboy has…

  • Tonight I am thinking of friends.

    I read an excellent article just now. This quote stood out for me: The classic tools of propaganda are being used to turn the electorate against benefit recipients: demonisation; lies and distortion, appeals to fear, stereotyping and repetition. It is disturbing to discover that public opinion is being shifted towards the government’s desired ground. Once…