Infographic : How to become a famous blogger

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The Gallery : Grandparents

Let me take you through a visual generational introduction to my family.  When I was born it was the first time that there had been five living generations in our family.  My great-great grandmother lived until I was two years old and I'm sure there is a photo of us together somewhere but I don't appear to have a copy.

How Does Your Garden Grow...

I've never really got to grips with gardening.  The garden has always been a place for the children to play out, somewhere for the dog to have a bit of a run around and we have never been creative, just always keeping on top of tidying up.  Then when you move to a house with just a yard - and not even a little patch at the front - you miss your garden dreadfully.  

Tesco Magazine Beauty Awards

My weekday morning routine usually consists of me trying to wake a 12 year old to get up, breakfasted and out for school whilst attempting to make myself look presentable for work.  This is usually as follows:

Wikio Parent Blog Rankings - July Preview

And here we are again.  Another month goes by and another shift in the rankings of the Wikio Parent Blog Rankings.  So, for your delectation, here is the sneak preview of the rankings for the month of July 2011.  You can find all previous previews (try saying that without your teeth in!) by clicking on the "wikio" label on this blog post.

Friday Funny : The Morning After Cybermummy

So, to round off my blog posts about Cybermummy '11 I thought you might like to hear about a little adventure I had in the hotel during the night.

But first I must set the scene.

The lift at the Travelodge, City Road, London is the hottest and most stupidest lift ever made.  No matter what floor you are on when you request the lift it will go from bottom to top (Floor 7) and then all the way back down again, stopping at each floor on the way.  Sometimes you may be lucky and only go up to Floor 5.  But, no matter what time of the day or night it is, the temperature in the lift is bordering on being able to melt titanium.  Our room was on Floor 1.