In a bun dance

If I'm going to get something, I usually get it in spades - luck (both kinds), children, clutter, dirty laundry, bright ideas, daft ideas...

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An e-reader’s lament for the book case

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What will become of the book case? The shelf, the stack and the pile? Til now, a home is not a home that doesn’t have at least one wall given over to jostling colourful spines. Books read, loved, received, abandoned. The shelves tell their own story.  The progress from empty shelf to bulging, double-stacked collection […]

SMWGla: BlogOff! and read what I said

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I took part in a Glasgow Social Media week event called BlogOff, run by Ryan Wenstrup-Moore of Social Chemistry. I was asked to speak about why I blog, so I told the story of In A Bundance and me. Here’s what I said: Good morning, Ryan asked me to talk in the ‘why blog?’ section […]

Bucket list linky: what do you want to do?

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What is on your life-long to-do list? Do you have burning ambitions? Of course you do. The 2007 film The Bucket List starred Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as two terminally ill men who go on a road trip with a list of things to do before they kick the bucket.  Not, before anyone asks, […]

The opposite to my bucket list

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It’s called a fuck it list. I recently wrote a post about my bucket list – the things I’d like to spend my life doing, other considerations aside. Writing it, my mind filled with loveliness: days of travel and family and writing things just for the heck of it. Then only a matter of a […]

GlossyBox: genius in a pretty package

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 Boxing clever  OK, what makes your ears sparkle and your eyes prick up? A goodie bag, a free gift, a package just for you, something that smells divine. Oh yes.  Lets face it, who doesn’t love a pressie? Especially one all pretty and enticing and brought by the postie. And it’s not your birthday or […]