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A day in the life of a journalist

November 8, 2012 Joanne Mallon 4

  I’ve posted news on KidsBlogClub of a fab opportunity for young girls to be magazine journalists for a day. But the surprising thing about the day […]

Sign in here if you’ve done bugger all for Christmas

October 31, 2012 Joanne Mallon 5

  It’s eight weeks until Christmas, fifty days or therabouts, and I have done feck all. Nor do I plan to, for quite a few […]

Anti-fashion: 5 great looks for women

June 18, 2012 Joanne Mallon 11

I was thinking about personal style yesterday when I went to my BodyCombat class at the gym. There were two women in the front row […]

What Cybher taught me about blogging success

May 14, 2012 Joanne Mallon 11

  OK I know I promised you lots of hot blogging tips from Cybher, but as it turned out, it wasn’t that sort of day […]

What Roald Dahl taught us about writing

April 23, 2012 Joanne Mallon 10

On Saturday we had a fizwhizzing trip to the Roald Dahl museum in Buckinghamshire. They’re got a new exhibit which recreates his writing hut. And […]

Mistakes I made when I started blogging

April 5, 2012 Joanne Mallon 14

I have now been writing this blog for 5 years. The done thing at times like this seems to be to slap the ugly word ‘blogaversary’ […]

Tesco robots – Just say no

March 19, 2012 Joanne Mallon 9

Well, I finally did it. I had been building up to it for a while, and today was the day. I was in Tesco waiting […]

Tried and tested: How to really go to the gym 3 times a week

January 10, 2012 Joanne Mallon 5

  As this was year four of my gym challenge (in which I aim to go to the gym 150 times a year AKA 3ish times […]

Christmas Tradition Bloghop – The other cake

December 5, 2011 Joanne Mallon 0

  Salt and Caramel has asked bloggers to share their favourite Christmas traditions and recipes, so I thought I would share The Other Cake with […]

What not to buy for Christmas

November 21, 2011 Joanne Mallon 4

  This weekend the papers were full of gift guides and advice on what to get for the people you love (and your family) for […]

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