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Michelle Mone, please remember you’re the adult in this

July 23, 2012 By Ellen

She hasn’t got a point In the paper today, the ubiquitous Ms Mone is moaning about having to hand her kids over to their dad for the holidays. It’s, according to The Scottish Sun and her Twitter account, “the hardest things she’s ever done”. Made worse, apparently, by the fact that her ex is with […]

Filed Under: blended families, children, divorce, Michelle Mone, twitter

You know you’re a blogger when…

May 18, 2012 By Ellen

…you consider writing about poo because you know it’ll be popular.  You know you’re a blogger when you reach for the camera first  There I was with a saggy Friday night brain considering what I might like to round the week off with. Something on what I’ve been doing? No, no one cares. A discussion […]

Filed Under: blog, blogger, blogging, nappy, parenting classes, poo, potty training, readysteadyblog, twitter

What do you do when your hero’s a scumbag?

April 24, 2012 By Ellen

Thought we needed a soothing picture So a footballer, Ched Evans, was convicted of rape. That means he is a rapist – he did it and the girl he raped is a victim. This is how justice works in this country. At this stage there isn’t any doubt about it. It has been proven in a […]

Filed Under: Ched Evans, football, justice, notever, rape, twitter

Your children and the internet: how scared should you be?

February 1, 2012 By Ellen

So I found my way to the school’s talk on internet safety last night. It was for parents with kids in primary seven or first year of high school. And now more than 24 hours later I’m dithering about what to write.  On the one hand (if the speakers were to be believed) the web […]

Filed Under: CEOP, high school, internet, social media, the internet, twitter

Twitter – break the news, not hearts

August 22, 2011 By Ellen

Twitter is a fanatic source of quick information. This evening, for example, the Panther of News and I were jolted from our Sunday night bubblegum telly by a tweet about rebels streaming into Libya. With one eye I watched Alex Crawford of Sky give her compelling and courageous report from the streets of Tripoli and […]

Filed Under: journalism, newspapers, social media, twitter

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