I’ve always loved words. I was one of those children who read everything. I’d read the words on the cereal boxes and whisper them so I could sense how they felt. Riboflavin. Thiamin. Magnesium. I wondered a little about what they meant, and I loved the familiarity of seeing them every day. I’d make little… Continue reading My Relationship with Words
BlogCamp and Cybher are my first ever blogging events, and I’m really looking forward to both days. We’ve been asked to put up an icebreaker for the meet and greet linkies. So here’s mine… Name : Louise Twitter : @girlbehind Height : 5′ 6″ I think. Five things you should know about me 1. I… Continue reading Cybher Intro (now for BlogCamp too)
I’m starting the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge over at the Sits Girls tomorrow (click the coloured bit for the link). I’ve had a bit of a go at it before, and the book that it’s based on is superb. But some of our best learning always comes from experience and this… Continue reading 5 Tips for Bloggers
It feels a bit self-indulgent to be picking out lots of my own pieces to mark the year, but doing just that is one of Mama Kat’s prompts for this week so I kind of had to join in. I bought this domain name on New Years Eve last year, although I didn’ t make… Continue reading My Posts of the Year
I don’t have one particular quiet place any more. I have a little office at home, but it’s become messy and in need of a good tidy and I’ve lost the ability to concentrate in there any more. Most of my other places are places that I share with Mike. I sometimes crave… Continue reading My Quiet Place
Anonymity and the internet used to be perfect partners. Or at least we felt that way. This used to be the place that we’d come to hide, to express things that would previously have been confined to a secret diary. We used pseudonyms, and every so often there’d be a bit of a rumble through… Continue reading Blogging and Anonymity
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