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

February 1, 2012 By Ellen 4 Comments

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 is […]

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

What’s your favourite waste of time?

June 20, 2011 By Ellen 7 Comments

Time is hurling me towards my book deadline at the moment. And you’d have thought the pressure and importance of the whole thing would focus my mind, wouldn’t you? However, instead of writing, one rainy Saturday afternoon I find myself googling that song from the eighties by Owen Paul. Like you do. And on the […]

Filed Under: blogging for happiness, housework, me, Reasons to be cheerful, The good things..., the internet, trivia, Write

Social media: so much noise, only one pair of ears

March 23, 2010 By Ellen 8 Comments

Do you tweet, facebook, blog, email or text? Of course you do, we all do. But it’s all starting to get too much. It’s taking so long to keep on top of it all, the Panther of News is starting to call himself an internet widower. He’s over there on the sofa with Professor Cox […]

Filed Under: Facebook., family, internet, phone calls, readyforten, social media, texting, the internet, twitter

Phew what a talker

February 24, 2010 By Ellen 6 Comments

Newspaper rules. Have you ever wondered why some stories get in the papers and some don’t? Who decides we’re interested in Cheryl Cole, Katie Price and Prince William this week? Well, news folk will say it’s because the public is interested – or even, more pompously, it’s in the public interest which isn’t the same […]

Filed Under: internet, newspapers, social media, the internet, wordy wonders

My name in Lego, a happy box and a three-way split

February 12, 2010 By Ellen 3 Comments

Things I’ve learned from my children today. Lego sometimes makes me happy. I’m involved in a secret new blogging project – if I told you I’d have to delete you or unfriend myself or something equally nasty, so I won’t… yet. However, I was telling Boy Two that I might need to take a picture […]

Filed Under: Lego, Something happened in my life, the internet, things I learned from my children today, work, Write

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