There was a time when I sat here and splurged out my feelings and our comings and goings and doings. The internet used to be a safe place to do so, relatively speaking. There were days when I could splurge out my feelings and make reference obliquely to things that were going on where I […]
Blogging for Sightsavers #SeeTheMiracle
Just short of 2 years ago I took Max for a day in Cambridge that would, in the words of my unemotional, stoical husband, change his life. Having been severely shortsighted since his early teens, with a prescription of -5.5, he had laser eye surgery. Within hours he could see better than he had seen […]
Who am I? Who are you?
I know I’m not the only one who has been left sadly bereft with the loss of Google Reader. I know they want G+ to take its place, but I very much doubt it ever will for me. I don’t want my content to be tailored and guided and sorted for me; I want things […]
Sponsored Post: A picture is worth…
In less than a month, this blog will be 10 years old. Sometimes I look back at the very first posts, though I like doing it on the wayback machine most to get the full flavour of how it used to look. Somehow, to me, those early posts are not the same surrounded by the […]
The Ten Things That Make Me & Us.
A person, a family, are far more than a collection of things, ailments, personalities, looks, interests and abilities. What I notice more than anything about having a large family, is how we all alter with each other; each little change brings about something new. With the exiting of Amelie from every day home ed, Maddy […]
#madblogawards close tomorrow – please vote for some fab blogs!
Tomrrow is the closing date for the MAD Blog Awards, the very last chance to vote for Patch of Puddles in the two categories you can vote for it in. I’ve just done mine. I didn’t vote for myself (at least, I don’t think I did!) but I wanted to tell you some of the […]
The overdue CyberMummy Part 2
I should have written this ages ago but it has been a funny old month and practically as soon as I came home from the blogging conference, the very last thing I had the energy to do was blog. In fact, I’ve barely opened my laptop for weeks; I can keep in touch on my […]
