Blogging How I stay motivated working from home Posted on May 18, 2023August 14, 2024 By Becky For many people working from home is considered the holy grail of the work/parent life balance—you can roll out of bed and straight onto your laptop, get the kids to school, and then come home and crack on with work (buh bye long commute), before heading back to school to… Read more
Blogging My Word for 2022: Revive! Posted on January 6, 2022 By Becky revive , verb restore to life or consciousness. Wow, it’s been a long time! When I last wrote my yearly ‘word’ for a year, the last being 2020, a whole ton of stuff has clearly happened in the world, and this space has been a little neglected for various… Read more
Blogging 5 Fabulous ways to support other bloggers Posted on December 10, 2021December 10, 2021 By Becky One of the things I’ve loved most about blogging over the years is the sense of community and support out there online. I’ve made some lovely friends, online and then some have become real life pals, and it’s something I never expected when I started dabbling with blogging over 6… Read more
Blogging Happy New Year and a new look! Posted on January 2, 2021December 20, 2021 By Becky Why hello there! I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year despite the current circumstances? It feels like it’s been a really long time since I’ve given this blog some tlc (a global pandemic, running a business and having to homeschool your kids for 6 months of a… Read more
10 Things That Could Be Losing You Blog Readers Posted on February 27, 2020September 28, 2022 By Becky Is your blog losing readers? Are the people that used to comment on all your posts no longer commenting? Are your posts not getting as many views as they used to? While there are plenty of things that you can do to attract new readers, it’s important to also keep… Read more
How I use SEO to increase my blog traffic Posted on February 25, 2019December 6, 2023 By Becky Having now been blogging in one way, shape or form now for coming on 7 years (over 5 now on this blog), I have picked up many, many blogging tips along the way, and one of these is for increasing traffic using SEO (Search Engine Optimism) well. Indeed, pre-knowledge of… Read more
Blogging Being confident in a sea of online noise Posted on July 10, 2018 By Becky I was dicking around on Twitter the other night (searching for extremely highbrow Love Island chat in case you were wondering), and inevitably got lost down a rabbit hole on random accounts, many of whom were, or at least appeared to be, the accounts of people, mostly women, interesting women… Read more
Blogging A new blog design! Posted on June 18, 2018 By Becky Hi all, after several days offline, my blog is back and I’m so happy with the result! You know the saying “a change is as good as a rest”? Well, I definitely feel that having a new blog design can be a breathe of blogging fresh air, and I’m so… Read more
Blogging Does perfectionism hold you back? Posted on May 10, 2018August 13, 2021 By Becky It’s ironic that I’ve been sitting on this post to write for ages, yet haven’t go going with it because I’ve wanted to be in the right frame of mind and make it a decent one…. Today I’m going to talk about perfectionism and how I’ve found it can hold… Read more