Tuesday Treats

Hello hello.

You remember a few weeks ago I wrote a post sharing some links to other blogs that I liked? Well the idea grew a bit, and it has turned into a ‘thing’. Chris from Thinly Spread, Becky from Baby Budgeting, and Lizzie from Missie Lizzie B have joined me, and the four of us going to take it in turns to run a post called Tuesday Treats.

It’s an excuse for you to take ten minutes out of your morning, sit down with a biscuit and a cuppa, and catch up with some good reads from around the blogosphere.

We’ve had a bit of a false start – for the last three weeks it has been called Friday Finds – but then we realised that the Tots 100 host something similar on a Friday called Fresh Five. So we have jiggled ourselves around a bit and we’re now settled on Tuesday Treats. By next week there *may* even be a badge.

Anyway, enough spraff from me. Here are some of the posts that I’ve loved recently. Continue reading →

Live in the Now: March

March 18, 2013 By DorkyMum in Family Tags: Family, live in the now, parenting 18 Comments

I know I’m a little bit biased, but I do think that DorkySon is one of the loveliest boys in the world.

We walked past a shop window the other day that had a huge Victorian doll’s house on display.

“Ooh,” I said. “What a pity we don’t have room for that in our house.”

“I know,” said DorkySon. “It’s such a shame. But come here and let me give you cuddle to take your mind off it.” Continue reading →

Stories for Our Not So Distant Future

March 14, 2013 By DorkyMum in Activism Tags: AL Kennedy, Alasdair Gray, Beacons, Beacons Stories for Our Not So Distant Future, books, books about climate change, campaigning, climate change, climate change campaigning, environment, environment books, green issues, Gregory Norminton, Joanne Harris, Mike Robinson, Stop Climate Chaos, Toby Litt 6 Comments

This time six years ago I was not a blogger. I was not a mum. I was not even married.

Six years ago, I worked full time for a coalition called Stop Climate Chaos. I would describe it to people as the climate change equivalent of Make Poverty History – a large, diverse group of development charities, environmental NGOs, churches, trade unions, student societies and many others – working together to campaign on issues around climate change. Continue reading →

A Global Vigil

March 13, 2013 By DorkyMum in Activism Tags: Activism, campaigning, Childhood Under Fire, conflict, Global Vigil for Syria, Save the Children, Syria, Syria campaign, Syria Crisis, Syrian COnflict 4 Comments

Last June, horrified by what they were reading in the news, bloggers across the UK came together to highlight the atrocities taking place in Syria. Last September, we united again; shocked that nothing had changed, appalled by the torture and terror being suffered by Syrian women and children.

Today, sadly, we have to do it once more. Continue reading →

Things We Love Right Now

March 12, 2013 By DorkyMum in Reviews Tags: Arts Emergency, Brain Games for Your Child, Doodlemum, Huckle the Barber, Marcs Words blog, reviews, shoreditch, The Bonnie Gull, things we love 5 Comments

Every so often I like to do a quick roundup of things that I’m enjoying in life just now – mainly things I’ve encountered by chance, occasionally things I’ve been sent for review. Here is our current love list.

Huckle the Barber: I love Shoreditch. It’s a great place to walk around and feel inspired by the street art and the buskers, and it’s full of so many great places to eat and drink. DorkyDad gets his haircut in a place that has recently opened on Old Street – Huckle the Barber – and although they don’t really do kids haircuts we sneaked DorkySon in for a wee trim the other week too. He loved the fact that it was called Huckle – like the character in so many of Richard Scarry’s books – and felt like a real big boy sitting high up in the proper barber’s chair. Is three too young to be a hipster? Continue reading →

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