Tuesday Treats: July 2014

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Tuesday Treats is an as-and-when roundup of top blog posts which is curated by me, Chris at Thinly Spread, Lizzie at Me and My Shadow, and Becky at A Beautiful Space. I’m going to be spending a couple of weeks offline starting today, so I’m making this an extra long version of Tuesday Treats to keep you all well stocked with reading material.

Right. On with it…

“When my baby was born, he and I became library story time regulars. In a little room with a disfigured Hungry Caterpillar mural and stained carpet, I learned the Portuguese lullaby I still sing my boys at night and at least six ways my knees could be horses.” – How Libraries Shaped My Motherhood on Offbeat Home and Life. 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

Sharing the Blog Love

The blogging world can get a bit ‘mememe’ at this time of year, as we all hustle for your votes in the various award ceremonies. So I want to do a ‘youyouyou’ post that balances things out slightly, and promotes other people instead.

Here are some of my favourite posts by other bloggers that I’ve read recently.

1.Being a leftie is, frankly, complicated and exhausting.” – A brilliant post by In A Village By Mistake about activism.

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