Express Yourself
For the past few weeks I have been taking part in the WordPress “Blogging 101” course, which I will freely admit I have used primarily to find new bloggers t...
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Busy Going Nowhere
I’ve been twiddling my thumbs through much of this week - wondering what to do with myself. I over-estimated a piece of work that I’m scheduled on, so have h...
Recording The Mundane And The Minutiae
Today’s exercise for the Blogging 101 course at WordPress challenges us with the following; Build your storyteller’s toolbox by publishing a post in another ...
Nope Nope And Thrice Nope
I’m not doing the WordPress Blogging 101 exercise today, because it’s not really about writing - it’s about commenting - and commenting elsewhere isn’t about...
The Insanity Of The Social Internet
Returning to writing a personal blog on a regular basis this year has made me realise something - I live in too many places online. I’m tempted to use an ana...
Build A Better Blogroll
Today’s exercise for the WordPress Blogging 101 course asks us to share a few links to the sites we love. As is usual, I couldn’t bring myself to do the exer...
Serenity
No, this post is not about the space ship in the short-livedTV series “Firefly” - it is a response to WordPress “Daily Post” photoprompt”Serenity.”, and for ...
Books I Havent Read Yet
I thought about titling this post “the huge and growing mountain of books I still haven’t read, despite writing about this before, and despite still not doin...
The Life Of Pi
While our younger daughters had friends for sleepovers last night - yes, that’s right, two sleepovers, because we’re stupid - we let our eldest daughter stay...
Sunday Morning And Pancakes For Six
We had six children in the house last night - our three, and three friends. They roughly divided themselves into two groups - 10 and 11 year olds on the sofa...