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Announcing… The Motherhood!

08 Friday Nov 2013

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The Motherhood

I’m a bit nervous today. The excited kind of nervous, that you only get when you really care about something.

Today I can finally share with you something I’ve been working on for the last few months. Back in August, I got an email from my friend Alison at Not Another Mummy Blog. Alison had this idea to set up a collaborative blog. She wanted it to be a collaborative blog with a difference though.

After weeks of emails to and fro, Google hangouts, phone calls and Facebook chat, we are finally ready to show the world what we’ve been up to.

The Motherhood is a brand new blog brought to you by a team of seven. We are all mums and all have very different backgrounds. We are glossy magazine editors, journalists, writers, crafting gurus and photographers. But the one thing we all have in common is that,  just like many of you, we are mums and we love to blog.  Continue reading »

Introducing: The home edition

28 Thursday Apr 2011

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So I’ve been back from my holiday for less than a week and it’s already time to step aside and hand some Mother’s Right limelight to you lot. Don’t say I never give you anything.

And in yet another act of unspeakable generosity, I’ll give a little recap as to what Introducing actually is. This is for anyone who’s new here, or who just hasn’t been paying attention.

Every Tuesday I send out an elephant-style trumpet for new friends. This is your chance to email me and introduce yourself. Then on Thursday, I pick three new friends (for this, read “blogs”) to bring to the rest of the blogosphere. The rules are simple but strict. All you have to do is email me with a link to your blog, but the limit is three a week. Anymore than that and I fear my brain will explode.

If you missed the sterling job Frau Fancy did holding the fort while I was away, catch up here and here. She brought us some brilliant new blogs and proved she’s as capable of work as the rest of us non-fancy lot.

So, this week the choices are mine. Oh, the power…

Circus Queen

For a funny, honest and thought-provoking read about pregnancy, this is the woman to visit. Circus Queen is on the eve of giving birth to her first child and writes so engagingly about her journey through pregnancy, I am as excited about the birth of her baby as I am any “real life” friends I know! What’s more, she lives in Bristol, which is where I’m from, earning her a big Introducing bonus point.

Her Melness Speaks Out

OK, so my daughter’s only ten months old. But I’m a regular visitor to this blog to see what lovely situations lie in wait for me when she becomes a teenager. Her Melness calls the subject of her blog The Gibberish Generation and writes about teenagers, parenting, relationships, the menopause…all sorts really. She has a raft of tips and anecdotes for living with teens, such as some must-read and very funny insights into how to tell if your child is lying. I’m personally storing all this as ammo to use once I make it through the baby years.

Not Missing Out

This is the go-to blog for anyone who needs to follow a lactose or gluten free diet. With recipes like Easter Bunny biscuits and Nachos, I defy anyone to leave this space without feeling slightly peckish.

That’s your lot for this week. Don’t forget to come back on Tuesday to answer my call for next week’s Introducing stars.

The pet’s not dead

26 Tuesday Apr 2011

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Sparkle's cousin

It’s always good to come back from a holiday to find your pet hasn’t died.

When I was little I used to rush home from every camping trip to France to find my rabbit, Sparkle, was still as alive and ferocious as ever. This made me sort of happy and sort of disappointed, as I harbored secret thoughts of replacing her with a docile little lop eared bunny who actually liked me and didn’t try to kill me every time I went near her. I don’t think she ever forgave me for christening her Sparkle.

Needless to say Sparkle came to a sticky end one rainy winter day after my dad decided to build a patio for her and her brother Patch. Being the recluse that she was, Sparkle burrowed a secret tunnel underneath the patio and used to spend hours down there, hiding her head in shame at her terrible name.  That turned out to be a bad move on this particularly rainy day, as there was a mini landslide and the patio came crashing down on her, finally putting her out of her bad-name-misery. We didn’t realise she’d left us until the next day, when Dad dug up the patio to find a Sparkle pancake underneath. I’ll never forget his stern words of “girls, look away – there’s nothing to see here”  before holding up my flat ferocious bunny.

*Sigh*

But I digress. What I actually came to say was a big thank you to Frau Fancy for keeping Introducing alive while I swanned off on my un-Fancy trip for two weeks. It turns out old Fancy Pants is actually capable of work, just as capable in fact as any commoner. So thank you Fancy. Thank you for rolling up your sleeves and getting stuck in, to bring us some brilliant new blogs while I was away.

Now it’s back to me. So, as ever, I want your blogs. Funny blogs, sad blogs, arty blogs, crafty blogs, baby blogs, teenage blogs, travel blogs, any-kind-you-want blogs. Please drop me a line to [email protected] and tell me who you are and the name of your blog. I’ll then bring you three of these brilliant blogs on Thursday, as Introducing comes back home.

Better hope I don’t build a patio between now and then.

Roll up, roll up

05 Tuesday Apr 2011

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It’s that time of the week again.

The time where I ask you to do to my work for me and let me know about all your brilliant blogs. Every Thursday I post a feature called Introducing. The aim of the game is to introduce you to three new blogs. But because I’m a lazy woman and simply don’t have the time to trawl the internet to find these new blogs myself, I ask you to do the work for me.

If you want to feature in this week’s Introducing, all you have to do is get in touch and introduce yourself. Tell me who you are and give me the link to your blog.  It really is that simple.

There are no rules, you don’t have to be a parent blogger. Your blog could be about pretty much anything. I’ll make the final pick on Wednesday night so get your suggestions to me before then.

Don’t forget, because I lead a super jet-setting lifestyle *ahem* I’m off on holiday this weekend. Frau Fancy of I’m So Fancy fame is taking on the lovely job of hosting Introducing for me next week and the week after, so be sure to answer her call for suggestions when the time comes.

If you missed Introducing last week, you missed a good’un. But because I’m full of general loveliness, here’s a recap. Now don’t say I never give you anything.

That really is all there is to say on the subject, now get cracking and email me at [email protected] and say hello. I’m waiting…