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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 […]

Guest post: Confessions of a pregnant travel journalist

April 18, 2012 Joanne Mallon 6

Today I have a guest post from the marvellous Cathy Winston, who’s a travel journalist, lemur juggler and blogger at the multi award nominated MummyTravels  […]

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’ […]

Working mother confessions – A mother’s work meme

March 1, 2012 Joanne Mallon 4

  A meme! I never get tagged in memes, and I have so much to meme about. So thank you very much to The Daily […]

Free activities for kids: grafitti The Guardian

January 29, 2012 Joanne Mallon 4

Previously we looked at free activities to fob the kids off with, but it’s hard to play Hunt the Pixie in winter, so here’s an indoor activity to […]

Book review: The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

January 27, 2012 Joanne Mallon 2

  Thanks to the help of my bloggy friends, and particularly Deb of Carrots and Kids, I ended up choosing The Immortal Life of Henrietta […]

The next evolution of parent blogs

January 18, 2012 Joanne Mallon 2

First the parents came, and they blogged about their kids and it was good (actually, some of it was a bit tedious, but why let […]

How do you choose a book for book group?

January 16, 2012 Joanne Mallon 11

  It’s a choice up there with what to name your children or what colour to paint your house, only more important – what book am I […]

Did I mention I have a book out?

January 9, 2012 Joanne Mallon 17

Well I do, I really do. A few days before Christmas, this turned up in the post:   So what started out as an idea […]

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