International Blog Swap Day

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A few weeks ago I signed up to International Blog Swap Day – a project that has been jointly organised by the Digital Parents Network in Australia, and Tots 100 in the UK. Bloggers from each country were paired up, and invited to guest post on each other’s blogs. It felt quite funny for me to be the Australian half of the pairing, and I wondered whether I would know the UK blogger that I got paired up with.

It turned out that I did – it’s the lovely Sarah from A Party of Seven. We had a little chat by email to decide what we would post about, and it turned out to be somewhat serendipitous that we were matched. Read on to find out why… Continue reading

Tuesday Treats

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Tuesday Treats is a roundup of top blog posts which is curated on a rotating basis by me, Chris at Thinly Spread, Lizzie at Me and My Shadow, and Becky at A Beautiful Space.

It’s my turn this week, so here are some links to posts and online articles I’ve read and enjoyed recently – I hope you find something in there that interests you too!

“Some things are easy. ‘Would you like chocolate or coffee cake?’ ‘Both please.’ ‘Would you like to live in this slightly grotty flat or be homeless?’ ‘The flat, please.’ See, easy. And that literally was the choice when I moved in here. There was a timescale, it was nearly up, and over the past four and a half years the slightly grotty flat has become our home.” – Moving Decisions – Rock n Roll Mum Continue reading

Tuesday Treats

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Tuesday Treats is a roundup of top blog posts and articles which is curated on a rotating basis by me, Chris at Thinly Spread, Lizzie at Me and My Shadow, and Becky at A Beautiful Space. For a while we took it in turns to do it as a weekly post and then we moved to monthly, but at the moment, because we’re all such busy ladies, it’s an as-and-when kind of thing! That said, I’ve read so much brilliant stuff recently that my roundups are in danger of reaching novel-length, so I might have to start doing them more often.

Here are some links to blog posts and articles I’ve read and enjoyed recently – I hope you find something in there that interests you too!

Here I am: sitting at a play date. Let’s say this play date is at a park, where the sun is shining and the kids are giggling. No flies on the snacks, no sand has been thrown. The moms are quiet but for all outward appearances, content. In this slice of domestic bliss, it suddenly occurs to me to bring up oil fracking.”- Why I mix play dates and politics – Offbeat Families Continue reading

Holidays, and a thank you

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Sofa snuggles, Easter eggs, Blinking Billy Point. Painting, playmobil, picnics at the park. Churros at Chulo. Wings at the Winston. Cheese and wine on beautiful Bruny. Adventure Bay, Margate, Kettering, Snug. Log fires, roast dinners, crosswords in bed. New dress, a birthday, flowers from the garden. An eclipse, a rainbow, snow on the mountain. The Aurora Australis, in the sea, not the sky.

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