In July of this year I will be walking the 84 mile long Hadrian’s Wall footpath. I am doing this in aid of The Joseph Salmon Trust, a charity that provides financial support to parents who have lost a child. This might be help with things like funeral costs for…

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In July of this year I will be walking the 84 mile long Hadrian’s Wall footpath. I am doing this in aid of The Joseph Salmon Trust, a charity that provides financial support to parents who have lost a child. This might be help with things like funeral costs for…

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It’s All That Come’s With It‘s blogiversary today. Four years old, can you believe it. And still no signs of slowing down. Well, ok, there might be some signs of slowing down. Like the fact I used to post daily and now it’s generally two or three times a week….

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Our house very much resembles a clown car – in that it looks functional and orderly on the surface, but it doesn’t take very long until things start falling off and bursting into flame at comedically inconvenient moments. Take the death of my Xbox on Boxing Day as a prime…

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This is sort of a response to a recent post over at A Modern Mother called The Sate of British Mummy Blogging 2009 and predictions for 2010. It shouldn’t be interpreted as an attack however. Just an alternative point of view. And I promise I’m not sulking just because she…

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Just as humans evolved from apes, blogging evolved from lists of links. And while it’s nice to have speech, art, and tools at our disposal; sometimes it’d be fun to shed all our clothes and swing about in the trees for a while. There’s been something missing from my feed…

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I have a confession to make. For the last few weeks I’ve been having an affair. I know you must be disappointed in me. I’m a little disappointed in myself if I’m honest. But sometimes a man just can’t get everything he needs from just one place. He has to…

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I read two types of blogs. The first type are blogs written by people that I like. These are bloggers with whom I feel I have developed (or am developing) a relationship. I am interested in what they say and the way that they say it. They comment on my…

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Like many bloggers I have an on-the-go list to record potential post ideas for future use. I’m not convinced that this adds anything to the quality of what I spew out here, but it does sometimes give me something to write about when otherwise my mind is blank. Here’s a…

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In a conversation in the comments section yesterday Insomniac Mummy inspired me to start up a sort of “Things I Have Got Out of Blogging” series of posts. So here we go. I’ve been incredibly fortunate to make a number of really good friends through this blog. And many of…

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