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Blogging for happiness: there’s more to writing a book than writing a book

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So that’s it. My book Blogging for Happiness is at the printers, nine months our so after the idea was conceived. It would be really easy to draw parallels to gestation – mood swings, good cravings, late nights, early mornings, inconvenience, intense emotions and a much anticipated baby.But that’s not it. Apart from the baby […]

Red Rover, Red Rover – did this game win us over?

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Was the Red Rover game by Mattel a boy’s best friend or a pitiful pooch?The game is very simple, it’s a talking dog that asks for certain colours, numbers or shapes of bone. Players need to find them and stick them in the dog’s mouth. There are two levels, one where the dog asks for colours […]

X Factor is the new Sunday lunch

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Apparently watching telly on a Saturday night is the new Sunday lunch. Or at least M&S say so and thats about as official as it gets in some circles.That means we are having a more meaningful and memorable bonding time with one-sided yelling at Louis Welsh than gathering around a roast dinner. And, actually, when I […]

Take a moment, please

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pic: Luckynick @ Dreamstime Kelly, aka Domesticgoddessque, has hosted a series of guest posts about Remembrance Day. They are an arresting and thoughful collection of posts. I urge you to take a few moments to visit and read them this morning.  Here is mine: They shall not grow old…  They shall grow not old, as […]

You know you’re a blogger when…

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This morning I found myself standing at the kitchen sink. Three inches of cold scummy water glinted in the sunlight. Congealed grease had set like the skin of a lizard rippling  between waterlogged crust island.So, what what was my instinctive response?Tip the nasty mess out and reclaim shiny stainless steel with hot blasts and soap?Or […]