I’m on a mission to reduce our outgoings over the next 12 months. We’re not massive consumers anyway, which I think makes it harder to make significant cuts. Nonetheless, these are things I’ve done this month which I know has saved us money. 1. Cooking thrifty eats I don’t recall who shared the link to […]
Month: June 2012
Breastfeeding: Stories to Inspire and Inform
This week (24th-30th June) is National Breastfeeding Week. The aim of NBW is to raise awareness of the health benefits of breastfeeding, increase social acceptance and promote support for breastfeeding. This week also sees the publication of Breastfeeding: Stories to Inspire and Inform; a collection of stories from breastfeeding mums detailing their experiences nursing their […]
Oliver
Oliver is 4 weeks old on Wednesday. On one hand he’s slotted into our ‘routine’ so well that it feels like he’s been here forever, but on the other … holy cow, that means I only have 11 months of maternity leave left. Yes, I’m keeping count. What’s your point? (I have a lot I […]
Work In Progress: rev.iew.me Conversion
rev.iew.me is a website / web page reviewing community. Launched in 2008, it was designed and developed specifically to help web designers, developers and hobbyist webmasters receive critical feedback for their website projects. As part of a larger package of updates and new features coming to the site, I have been plotting a conversion to […]
SAHM, WAHM, WOHM, what?
Cherie Blair, the wife of ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair, has pissed a lot of mums off this week by criticising stay at home mums (SAHMs); apparently they’re all “yummy mummies” who’ve married rich men so they don’t have to go to work. It’s making women “too dependent”, wasting their education, etc etc. I wanted to […]
Hair Dilemma
After I had Isabel I had my shoulder-length hair chopped off. I think it’s a new mum right of passage or something. I loved it. Loved the fact that it took minutes to dry, that I only needed a teensy blob of shampoo, it didn’t get in my eyes etc. Karl wasn’t so taken but, […]
Budgeting
Now that I’m on maternity leave for the next 12 months, my monthly income has more than halved. At the end of my leave (last 3 months) I’ll be earning zilch. Nada. Nothing. With a mortgage, childcare costs, usual household bills etc I need to find ways to make all that fit. We have savings, […]
Remember Amelie?
Do you remember Amelie? My sofa, that is… Turns out she’s not as comfy as she looks when you’re stuck on her nursing 24/7 (oh, newborns…) Still, being sofa-bound means I’ve been able to (literally) one-handedly launch Jem On WordPress. I wanted to do a full, ‘official’ launch, but as making a big deal out […]
Upgrade Now: WordPress 3.4 “Green”
WordPress 3.4, code-named “Green” after jazz guitarist Grant Green, was released yesterday. To ensure maximum security for your WordPress site, be sure to keep your core install & plugins up to date.
Maintain multiple sites with WP Remote
If, like me, you’re responsible for multiple installs of WordPress, you’ll know what a chore it can be to keep both WordPress and plugins up to date; just as you get one blog upgraded you log in to another and discover it has a different set of plugins that need updating too. Logging in to […]