Blogging

This post may contain affiliate links and scenes of a sensitive nature. I MEAN IT. DON’T SAY YOU HAVEN’T BEEN WARNED. I joined Twitter in 2008, which is BLOODY AGES AGO. Back in those days, tweets were limited to a mere 140 characters (something that didn’t change until 2017), and everyone followed Stephen Fry and talked about X Factor. I

You may recently have heard bloggers like myself (but probably better and more successful) moaning about the Google algorithms lately. While it may not be something you’ve paid much attention to if you’re not in the business, it’s big news. Eh? Come again? I’ll be brief because I know this kind of stuff is pretty dull: The people in charge

I’ve been blogging here for eight and a half years now and as well as allowing me freedom to work around my kids, I do actually make a decent* living doing it. It’s not all just free stuff, you can actually make money blogging. AND I can do it in my pyjamas to boot. This isn’t meant as a braggy

This week’s inbox action has been truly outstanding. Not in a good ‘we will pay you lots of money to do this!‘ way, but in a consolatory ‘well… at least you’ll have material for a blog post from this‘ way. NB – If you’re confused about what these emails are going on about, you can check my first post on

It’s not actually my birthday; that was in October. I’m surprised you missed it to be honest, I did go on about it a bit. BUT DID YOU KNOW? Like royalty I in fact have two birthdays. Eight years ago today, with less than a week to go until Christmas, I put into action an idea I’d had for a