Last November I took over my local blogging network, the Bournemouth Bloggers. Since then, I have been working hard to bring as many local venues and businesses together with us influencers (personally hate the word, …
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Why Instastories is Making Me Fall Back in Love with Instagram
Instagram. The social media platform us bloggers all love to hate. Just when we thought the Facebook algorithm was bad enough, Instagram went one better, with posts we actually want to see being shunted right …

Is Blogging Fake? Why I’m Tired of the Tactics & Games in this Industry
I feel like this post has been bubbling away under the surface for quite some time now, itching to come out, and yet, after finally writing it all down, I hesitated before hitting publish. For …

My Alternative Bullet Journal – How I’m Planning to Get Organised
I’ve always loved notebooks. I tend to stockpile them, buying pretty ones and stashing them away, forgetting all about them without ever using them. When I first heard about bullet journals around a year ago …

The Ugly Truth Behind my Blog
I wasn’t sure whether to write this post or not. After all, nobody likes to admit to being a bad parent, but I felt I needed to, to get it off my chest and to …

What’s in a Name? The Story Behind my Blog
Have you ever wondered how bloggers come up with the names for their blogs? I’m always interested in hearing the story (unless it’s just their name, that’s pretty self explanatory). This is actually my second …
Monday Musings – 10 Things You Might Not Know about Me
Writing a blog, exposing my deepest, darkest thoughts to the Internet means that readers tend to get to know me fairly well. Still, there are some things that don’t come up in everyday conversation, things …
Introducing Regular Posts
I was round a friend’s house this week and we were discussing YouTubing and blogging and how the key is to be consistent and that the way to help you along is to have a …
Losing my Blogging Mojo
So, something weird happened. When I was working full time and ridiculously long hours and never seemed to have a spare minute to myself, I actually managed to slot in blog posts a hell of …
Living Under the Spotlight – Why I Choose to Blog About my Life
Although I’ve only been writing this blog since Autumn last year, I started my last blog (fallenangel to yummy mummy) back in 2011 when Cameron was just a newborn. My blogs have always ended up …
