When I was in my preteen years, my grandmother would bring a whole stack of magazines to my mum each month. She read just about every magazine going, I think. My favourite parts of the magazines were the little columns about peoples’ lives. There’d usually be a woman in each magazine who would write a… Continue reading Why I Started Blogging
I’ve taken another of the Summer Blog Social prompts for today. I’m looking at things from a different point of view to yesterday’s post, which covered starting out as a blogger. Today I’m exploring some of the things that I look for as a blog reader. The Prompt – “When you visit a blog,… Continue reading Being a Blog Reader
These are the things that I’d pass on to someone starting a blog for the first time (with a little note somewhere that I’ve not been very good at following them all myself…). 1 :: Use WordPress.com to start with. It’s neater than Blogger, for both the writer and the reader. There’s less opportunity to… Continue reading Tips for a New Blogger
They call it quitting in America. Sudden and certain and sure of itself. I quit. That’s done with. Move on. Here, we linger. We try. We attempt. We’re sort of thinking of packing it in a week on Wednesday. We schedule in advance for a day that never quite arrives. And then one day last… Continue reading Quitting
I’ve travelled in a plane for three return journeys in the whole of my life. The first two times were when I was in my early teens, and I don’t remember a great deal about them. The third time was more recently, on a trip to Spain, which was just about the closest place that… Continue reading Fearing Flying
I’m from a lifetime of Marks and Spencers underwear, from last season’s clothes bought on sale and from the dizzy limit of wealth being enough spare cash to buy a jacket from Jaeger. I’m from a favourite cousin’s hand-me-down sailor dress, and from a family of women who each in turn convinced themselves that they… Continue reading Where I Am From
In response to yesterday’s WordPress DailyPost Topic #176: Find the nearest window. Look outside. What is the most interesting thing you see? I do a lot of my blog procrastination sitting on a little sofa in the bay window of our front room. Having the curtains open means that I can see most of… Continue reading The Nearest Window
For the Word Press Daily Post Photo Challenge Taking part in the photo blogging project brings me little moments of delight and genius in places that I least expect to find them. I keep a copy of my 365 list in my bag, and usually plan a few that I can expect to take during… Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge : Numbers