Geekalicious
Your Header Image On Social Media Platforms
It seems that the main three social media platforms – Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus – are using similar layouts which give you the opportunity to display a small avatar (sometimes used for a good quality head and shoulders shot) and a larger landscape display area.
Below are some screengrabs of what my social media profile pages look like at the moment.
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Twaddle and Tonic
Tales of Dating
There is something about finding yourself the only single, thirty something amongst married or nearly married pals who are all in the midst of having or have had whippersnappers that leads you to believe you’re entering the ‘Wilderness Years’ and this draws you into thinking ‘maybe I should give internet dating another go?’
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Seriously, Though
How To Upgrade To iOS 6″ Articles Are Nerdly Condescension
I’ve noticed a recent rash of articles that patiently explain how to install the new iOS.
At CNET, we have “How To Install iOs 6″.
Another identically titled article over at Macworld.
At GottaBeMobile, we have “Five Things To Do Before You Upgrade To iOS6″.
They’re long articles, with many steps in them.
They’re ridiculous.
Aren’t you guys working a little too hard to justify your existence?
Updating to iOS 6 is easier than breathing. No condescending handholding from nerds is required.
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the fallopian tales
It’s a blue day.
I lay in bed this morning, cuddling my two (almost three) year old baby and I cried. For weeks now he’s been taking about getting a baby sister. What he will do when she’s here. Sometimes he kisses my tummy. Sometimes he tells me his baby is in his tummy. He’s always telling me he will share his toys and his clothes and his bed. My heart breaks for this little boy, who, for a few days thought mummy had a baby growing in her tummy.
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run of the windmill
Feeling Small
We are a small family, small in height, small framed, small feet, we even own a very small cat, but I am trying not to let that stop me standing proud in this nation of giants. I have just Googled it and the Dutch are statistically the tallest nation of people.
I am 1.6m (5ft3) and when I moved here I jokingly said I would never be able to find a boyfriend. I am more or less armpit level to the average Dutch man. Not a tremendous point of attraction.
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Little Magic Beans
Where’s Wally and his missus?
The other day on entering a trendy north London office, I came across a life-size cardboard cut-out of (Where’s) Wally in the entrance. As Wally and I curiously checked each other out, someone in the very open-plan office chirpily called out (loudly, so everyone else could hear). ‘Oh, look. Which one’s Wally?!’ Then she pointed. At me. It was at this stage that I realised I was dressed in a nautical red-striped top, with my glasses on and there wasn’t much to tell me and the cardboard guy apart.
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twins tiaras and tantrums
Twin Separation Anxiety
When the girls started preschool in January I hated being the new mum on the block and the whole playground mum experience! I like to think I’m a pretty confident outgoing person, but there was something scary about standing waiting in a playground with a bunch of women I didn’t know! Back then I thought I was witnessing the dreaded playground mum click that I had been warned about…
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Yawn of the Dad
Nolan and The Batman – Part 1: Batman Begins
A lot has been made of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, with most critics singing its praises and rating it as the prime example for all future comic book films to follow. I’m a big fan of all 3 films myself, albeit being left with a slight sense of disappointment with the third film ‘The Dark Knight Rises’.
Before watching the trilogy my Batman knowledge was relatively basic, I probably knew more than the average fan regarding origins, villains and locales, but I’d have been put to shame by anyone declaring themselves a ‘fanboy’ or diehard fan, obviously…
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Five’s A Fellowship
Overcoming Anxiety
Not long ago, Catherine, a fellow blogger, declared that she will be doing her very own Happiness Project. It’s an idea taken from a book of the same title by Gretchen Rubin, who every month, embarked on something new, that would aid in enriching her life and ultimately, make her a much happier person. Over at For Bell and Will, Catherine will be sharing her journey to happiness with her readers, and has invited other bloggers to link up and join in with their own posts, on how they will be trying to make their lives that little bit better.
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3 Children and It
The see-saw world of parenting
It’s Friday and we’ve reached the end of one of those weeks – you know the ones – so busy that your feet don’t seem to have touched the ground, your kids have been less than perfect and to top it off, you have made more than one huge fat parenting fail 
Some of you reading this may well have been on the receiving end of my topsy-turvy ponderings and ramblings this week (I thank you all *bows graciously*) but now we have reached Friday, I am beginning to make sense of it all.
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Piccy.co
Adding labels to images using PicMonkey
Here’s a really simple way to give an extra dollop of lovely to an image that you want to add to your blog using PicMonkey.com. By adding a label to an image you can create a pretty little caption area. In this example I show you how to attach a couple of labels to an image. One for the title and another smaller and semi-transparent one.
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F.A.B at Forty
Just Absurdly Wrong
Warning – This post has images you may find disturbing
Catching up on this weeks news stories, I stumbled across a story that I must say I did find rather disturbing.
No, not the over exposure of Kate Middleton’s breasts, or the debate about the invasion of her privacy. Because quite frankly, I don’t understand the amount of media attention this has created. So she has breasts, great, is she the first ”Royal” women to have breasts? (it was actually Harry who took the pictures, to try to deflect attention from his naked rear end!)
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Kids Days Out Reviews
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
A review of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford by a rather brilliant parent blogger.
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Catch A Single Thought
Warning…this could happen to your toddler
So, we’re home after three nights camping near to the New Forest in Hampshire.
I’ll post a round up of what we got up to once I’ve waded through the mountain of washing and post-holiday chaos but I thought I’d share with you my personal highlight of the holiday.
When visiting Peppa Pig World Meg spontaneously started dancing…I assume, due to an excitement overload!
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Mummy’s Little Stars
Mummy, Where do babies come from?
My little boy asked me something the other day, that I just knew was going to happen one day – he’s five and it was inevitable:
“Where do babies come from?”
I did my motherly duty, of course. And bullshitted a bit.
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LearnLoveGrow.com
Proclaiming my Love…
It is often said that it’s not till we loose something that we realise what we had.. that the fact is…. we take our nearest and dearest for granted, failing to acknowledge their importance to us, our deepest feelings left unsaid.
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Minisaurus
Counting our #PenniesForPiggies
I’ve got something out of collecting the pennies too – a real sense of pride in my children embracing fundraising. From a fluffy 2p piece from the back of the sofa to a shiny £2 coin (pinched from my purse!) Scamp and Ozzy have posted every single penny into the collecting jars we made. They’ve loved it, and so have I.
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