Moved Feed Provider

Due to continued problems with Feedburner and the ever-present rumour that Google intends to shut it down, I have moved my feed provision (both normal subscriptions and email) to FeedBlitz. Please can you ensure that, if you subscribe to my feed, you are subscribed to www.jemjabella.co.uk/feed as this will always point to the right place.

Email subscriptions have been imported and you don’t need to do anything.

I’ve updated my subscribing to jemjabella.co.uk page to reflect the changes.

the same but different

Eagle-eyed visitors will notice some slight changes here: the addition of a third column, changes to the footer, etc. I’ve converted my theme to run off the genesis framework (mostly for the power of the widgets and templates and all that crap).

In theory it means easier maintenance in the future, and has taken about 4 months to get this far because I only get 10-15 minutes a day to work on the bloomin’ thing (work, babies, house, moan moan moan). Some bits that were broken before (twitter feed) are now working again, but there’s bits that WERE fine but are now broken (no decorational border thing around posts … it’s getting there) Let’s call it a work in progress.

Breastfeeding Stories winner

Congratulations to Nathalie T., you are the winner of the ‘Breastfeeding: Stories to Inspire and Inform’ book. You won by following @Lonely_Scribe on twitter.

Want to win something cool too? Keep your eyes peeled for a giveaway of a family ticket to the LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre.

Volvo no longer selling cheap ERF car seats

In 2010 I blogged about buying our Britax Multitech from Volvo. Lots of people find my post daily looking for “volvo car seats”, “volvo rear facing” etc.

Finding extended rear facing car seats in the UK can be difficult enough as it is, finding them for a good (read: cheap) price is next to impossible. That bad news is that when it caught on that people were ‘using’ Volvo to buy these rock solid seats at lower than RRP, they put a stop to it. The Multitech now retails at the same price through Volvo as it does in other ERF retailers and has done for over 6 months (possibly longer).

So, bad news aside, what of the car seat we bought? Well, it’s still rock solid, in daily use and still fits Isabel brilliantly despite the fact that she is tall for her age (it’s a myth that leggy toddlers can’t ERF; their legs bend much more easily than a grown up’s and sit comfortably in these bigger seats). We now also own the Britax Two Way Elite which fits nicely in my small Skoda Fabia. If Oliver continues growing at the rate he is, it’ll soon be joined by another too!

If you’re looking to buy a rear facing car seat for your toddler or indeed are planning to keep a baby rear facing after they’ve grown out of the Group 0 seat, I highly recommend getting in touch with In Car Safety Centre. These guys specialise in rear facing seats and can advise on fitting, ERF seats for smaller cars, etc.

Where did all these posts come from?

I’ve done some thinking, and have decided that for now I am going to say ‘stuff you’ to anyone who wants to try and dig up shit / stalk me. As such I’ve imported the posts I created whilst I was “away”; nothing exciting but may flood your RSS feed (for which I apologise).

So, tentatively ‘back’…