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5 simple ways I turned my blog into a business

"Content is king, but distribution is queen and she wears the pants." Of all the memes out there about blogging [...]

By |January 6th, 2021|Blogging, Parenting|30 Comments

5 top tips for managing your accounts as a blogger

'Someone who writes regularly for an online journal or website' - that's the Cambridge Dictionary definition of a blogger, but [...]

By |October 22nd, 2020|Blogging|3 Comments

7 ways blogging has shaped me as a parent

Seven years. I’m not sure where the time has gone but that’s how long I’ve now been blogging for – [...]

By |January 17th, 2020|Blogging, Parenting|18 Comments

5 investments worth making if you want to be a professional blogger

They say you’ve got to speculate to accumulate, and when it comes to monetising a blog it’s a saying that [...]

By |July 17th, 2019|Blogging|8 Comments

The 5 biggest lessons I’ve learnt in 5 years blogging

Five years. That's how long I've been blogging for, and my goodness what a learning curve it's been. I know [...]

By |January 29th, 2018|Blogging|14 Comments

10 reasons blogging IS a proper job

‘Get a proper job’. That’s what one reader told me in response to a post I wrote about whether bloggers [...]

By |May 7th, 2017|Blogging|50 Comments

Am I exploiting my kids?

Have you heard about Victoria Beckham trademarking her daughter’s name? Apparently she’s registered Harper Beckham, five, for use in branded [...]

By |April 20th, 2017|Blogging, Parenting|43 Comments

14 things I’ve learnt in 4 years of blogging

Is it me or does everyone celebrate their blogiversary in January? Everywhere I look people seem to be marking the [...]

By |January 20th, 2017|Blogging|51 Comments

How to take a blogging break

Anyone who blogs will tell you it’s all-consuming. What started out as a little hobby on the side to be [...]

By |June 24th, 2016|Blogging|28 Comments

AIBU to HATE the term AIBU?

There’s something that’s really been getting my goat lately. Well, there are lots of things, but this thing in particular is really [...]

By |May 27th, 2016|Parenting|37 Comments

10 signs a baby is a blogger’s child

It occurred to me, when a parcel arrived containing something for me and not for BB and she crossed her [...]

By |May 6th, 2016|Family life|70 Comments

5 reasons to enter Tots100 MAD Blog Awards

Nominations are officially open for Tots100’s annual MAD Blog Awards. If you haven’t heard of them before, the MAD (mum [...]

By |March 18th, 2016|Blogging|94 Comments

We’ve had a makeover!

Today I’m coming to you from our brand new sparkling website! After almost two and a half years we’ve waved [...]