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Blog birthday giveaway: Panasonic Slimline Combination Microwave

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Do you fancy helping me celebrate my 10 year blogaversary? I’d love it if you would. I’ve got some great ideas on how to celebrate, and the first thing I’m doing is giving away this microwave from John Lewis

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To enter, leave me a comment telling me the best thing blogging has done for you. (You can still enter if you don’t blog. Just tell me a happy thing 🙂 ) You can have extra entries per day for tweeting or otherwise sharing this post, but you must leave me an extra  comment with link per share. (I use a plugin called and the winner is which draws randomly from separate comment entries.)

Competition is UK only and runs until midnight bst on 22nd May. You must be prepared for your details to be passed to the company for fulfilment.

If you’d like to get involved in a giveaway here, either for my blogaversary or some other reason, please drop me a note through the contact form.

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  3. Um, blogging – blogging has given me the chance to connect with people!
    I remember the first time I went to a craft festival, someone (someone I consider well known in the knitting community) asked me about one of my kids then announced she read my blog!
    I felt so proud lol

  6. Blogging has given me a community of people that understand sharing our journeys whatever they may be. I met some awesome folks & my blog helps me capture moments that I might otherwise have forgotten – the best bit is when someone says, yes I feel that way too!

  7. i would love to have my own blog if i could find time, sharing & comparing life experiences with others 🙂

  9. Blogging has given me a voice, and as a very shy person made me feel that my voice can be heard.
    I appreciate everything that blogging has done for me.

  16. Blogging helped me feel less alone when I first had my daughter straight after fnishing Uni. It also gave me a place to write my way through my depression, which helped a surprising amount.

  17. My little blog about my garden and wildlife started out as just a personal space to scribble and add photos to but I have gradually started to get followers and I love the fact that people share my interest in my little piece of the outdoors

  19. Books. Books. And more books… 😉
    But seriously, blogging has introduced me to more people that I actually relate to, more than I could ever have met in real life because I’m far too shy / socially anxious. But meeting bloggers in real life has happened, and wasn’t scary, and they ‘knew’ some of me and I ‘knew’ some of them so a lot of introductory small talk gets ripped away and you can talk about your shared passions without worrying whether the other person thinks you’re utterly mad, because you already know that they *know* you’re utterly mad. And so are they. In a good way 😉

  21. Something happy ; my little girl has just learnt to wave and say Hi. If you do it back the smile you get back is immense :0) *heart melts*

  22. I don’t blog but I love following blogs.A happy thing for me was at the weekend my little niece picked me a daisy and then later on my nephew made me a flower from paper,I felt very happy and loved that day 🙂

  27. Blogging has given me a lot of confidence and helped me grow as a parent. It also been INVALUABLE for me meeting fantastic ladies all over the place who I now call friends 🙂

  28. I have only been blogging a couple of months (so a newbie!) but it means I can use my ‘adult brain’ again once the kiddies are in bed! It is also a virtual memory box of my kiddies growing up, which they are doing far too quickly!!

  35. Blogging has given me the opportunity to learn new things, be creative and find my voice as well as get involved with some amazing people. I’m addicted

  39. I no longer blog, but I used it as an escape when i was unemployed, it was good to be able to work on something and was a release from the mundane life, plus i love reading other blogs, taking a peek into stangers’ world!

  40. My happy thing is that my cat licked me and a cat licking its owner is the ultimate sign of affection. This is such an amazing prize , thankyou for the chance.

  48. The best thing blogging has done for me (is going to sound utterly bonkers but is very true) is give me a circle of people who I can call friends and within that circle I have found friends who I think I will always be friends with even though we live a long way from each other and we don’t see each other often! 🙂

  50. I met my hero at the weekend! Ex Arsenal captain, Tony Adams, and he is the nicest chap alive!