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Replacing Google Reader and Re-Subscribing

You know I was going to write a post about Google Reader being shut down, but then Miss L got ill and everyone beat me to it! I’m personally trying to decide between Flipboard or BlogLovin’. Blog Lovin has a wonderful simple import from GReader button for the lazy – well it won me over. [...]

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An Evening Out

I had the most wonderful time at The Mads on Friday, it was so lovely catching up with old friends and meeting some new ones.  Thank you for voting for me so I could be there! I didn’t win, Heather from Growing Spaces did – hurray! Her blog is fabulous and it was so well deserved – go [...]

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RSS Readers and Email Subscribers

Hello Lovely Subscribers!, You get your RSS Feed or Emails to Violet Posy via something called Feedburner which I’ve decided to stop using. But in order to keep you all I need to make some changes so  you can all still follow the blog and I wondered if you could all resubscribe?  I would be [...]

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The Mads and a Thankyou or Two

The Mads (Mum and Dad Blogging Awards) is coming up next week, and frankly it’s kind of crept up on me – where did September go? I’d like to thank you all again for voting for me in the category of the Best Home Blog.  I’m nominated with some wonderful other bloggers  Frugal In Cornwall, [...]

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{The Mads 2012} Thankyou

 I just popped over to The Mads (Mum and Dad Blog Awards) to see if I’d been nominated for anything and I had such a lovely surprise I’m really chuffed!  Violet Posy has been nominated for Most Innovative, Most Helpful Blogger, Best Home Blog and the big one Best Blog of the Year! I really can’t [...]

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What’s Your Favourite WordPress Plugin?

Yesterday I had an email from an advertiser asking if their ads could just appear on my homepage, and I knew my theme couldn’t do it so I’d have to hunt for a plugin.  Now there are 18,964 WordPress plugins at the moment – where to start?  I tried a couple of custom sidebar ones and [...]

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Challenge Accepted!

So lovely blogging pal Pippa over at A Mother’s Ramblings, has tagged me for a super quick Meme:   1) Which TV character do you think you are most like? Monica from Friends, although I attempt not to be an anal retentive control freak – yeah I don’t manage it much! But I’m not as [...]

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Replacing Picnik

Late last week Google announced the closure of the fabulous photo editing Picnik site, in order to roll out some of it’s functions into Google+ photos.  But that also means from what I’ve read that all your photos edited on it are then also made public via your Google+ account – I could be wrong so [...]

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Replacing Google Friend Connect

Google in their infinite wisdom are getting rid of Google Friend Connect for non blogger blogs (if your blog is hosted on Blogger you’re ok!), as of March 1, 2012.  This means if your blog is on WordPress, Typepad or something else readers will no longer be able to read your blog through Friend Connect.  So [...]

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Sweet Paul

No not my husband, but a very cool lifestyle blog/magazine I came across this week – he’s the blogger I want to be when I grow up! Check out his blog here and the frankly fabulous online magazine here

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