It’s Sleep is for the Weak‘s first birthday today! Hard to believe that someone I think of as such an accomplished blogger has only been ‘at it’ for that long. Josie’s writing workshop is a little piece of wonderful in
What’s your virtual voice?
I was ‘talking’ to Bumbling Along the other night when she said this. It sparked something in me, made me start thinking about the voices we attach to our virtual friends and what cues we use to form these decisions.
The Present Drawer
It’s birthday party season again in the Battling On household. Every weekend involves at least one wunderkind attending someone’s party somewhere in the county, and boy have I been clocking up the miles dropping off and picking up. Every party
Ok, you’ve had your half an hour….off now!
Those are generally the words I use to turf the the Boy Wonder off his DS. We’ve arrived at half an hour through a series of (almost) scientific experiments which focus on the ratio between time sat stationary staring at
The Face
High excitement today at Battling On after it was revealed that I’ve been shortlisted for Most Inspirational MAD Blog in the MAD Blog Awards 2010. I’m there with 4 other bloggers, a couple of whom I know and respect enormously,
Is This What You Want?
Driving my children home from school yesterday I slowed as I made my way down a busy residential road, eyes focussed on the middle distance, ears tuning in to an alien sound…. A loud hailer playing something akin to fairground
Portait of a country in flux
Anyone else feeling a bit jittery today? Our Parliament is in limbo, the last leadership debate has been run, the Mail is convinced that Cameron is the clear winner and there seems to be a distinct lack of sense being
Wow!
Yesterday was a big day here at Battling On. I wasn’t surprised by the response to I am Six because I am fast realising what a bloody lovely group of people bloggers are, but as I sit here at 1.24am,
It’s a Spring Onion, not an AK47….
Those were the exact words that flashed through my mind this weekend when my darling OH, who having offered to make me a sandwich, declared that he didn’t know what to do with a spring onion. Now before any of
Happiness is….
3 very cheap water sprays from Tesco, and Hipstamatic on the iPhone….