Here we are at The Cookery School for a blogging cook along with Master Chef winner Tim Anderson. For great inside tips he is @cheftimanderson on twitter.

I’m starting the year with a resolution to continue supporting the good works that bloggers can do by becoming part of the Mom Bloggers for Social Good with 400 founding blogging Mums.  I know I am in great company and hope that we can make some noise in 2012 for all these good causes.   [...]

Lush is instantly recognisable by the aroma that wafts around all of its stores not just around the UK, but the rest of the world.  It’s a great brand, full of wit and wisdom which it dispenses freely on its packaging and in abundance in store.   But did you know Lush has a small [...]

The thing about Christmas, is that while everyone complains about being bombarded by commercialised holidays and the pressure to consumer anything and everything avidly for the duration of the season, there are hundreds of thousands kids who absolutely love it.  And then, there are those slightly older children that are beginning to think that Rudolph [...]

The mighty Shaa is speaking about investment and collaboration as the way forward for bloggers – she’s pretty inspirational and straight talking which is great. I have followed her and chatted to her on twitter but she makes a much bigger impact in real life.

           Poetry is one of the best ways to discover language and it’s also to be enjoyed which is why we love poetry in hour house; be it Edward Lear, Shakespeare, AA Milne, Oscar Wilde or even our own witterings, it’s all part of story telling and an essential part of [...]

I went to a preview screening of The Help with a few of my fave bloggers on Friday and we were all pretty impressed with it. Set in 1960s Mississipi, it unveils the domestic lives of society there and sheds light on the absurdity and tragic consquences of deep seated racism. The story pivots around [...]

For those of you who’ve not heard of it, The Technorati State of the Blogosphere yearly report is possibly one of the most credible sources of information for bloggers, and about bloggers. Technorati was one of the first sources of social authority measurement and it was way ahead of Klout, Grader and PeerIndex. It has [...]

Save the Children is launching a new healthworkers campaign and true to form, it’s enlisting the help of the blogging community to share the message with empathy. I will be attending the conference today and on the panel about Taking Your Blog to the Next Level. I’ll be talking about how to open doors with [...]

Writing is really personal and it’s not just about headspace, we all need a physical space, and time, to do what we do. I was really inspired by the photographs of Roald Dahl’s ‘writing hut’ which were published this week. And while the headlines were screaming about the £500k it would take to save the [...]

Yesterday we took to the South Downs for a 5 mile walk among the most beautiful countryside and to raise funds and awareness for Water Aid. ‘We’ being a large group of ambassadors including Rosie Scribble, Mummytips, Mummy in Manolos and Bumpwear Claire – all with children aged from 18 months to 11 years. It [...]

On the evening of the new ITV show, Born to Shine, which I’m literally heading out the door to see any moment, it’s quite fitting that I publish my interview with celebrity ambassador; Natasha Kaplinsky. While she needs no further introduction, Natasha has been the face that’s greeted us for many years when she’s presented [...]

I’ve been keen to post about this event I went to recently and now that I’ve finally got the infographic, I’m ready to share the details of the Digital Diaries research by AVG. As someone who is heavily involved in research every day, I tend review a lot of statistics and insights. This research is [...]

It’s been a busy week for me as I’ve been to three events this week; all of them digital and each of them unique. First was the Cannt (the antihero of Cannes), the second was the NMA Awards at The Grovesnor (where my fabulous colleague Laura JB won The Greatest Contribution to New Media Award) [...]

Theatre purists often snort with derision when stars of the small and silver screen grace the stages of the West End. But why should they? I’ve seen great productions such as This Is Our Youth with Matt Damon, Casey Affleck and Summer Phoenix and not so great with Phil Jupitus in Hairspray. That’s the nature [...]

If you’ve got kids, no doubt you have a few well thumbed copies of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid cult books, based on the New York Times cartoon series, lying around the house. The appeal is that they’re not just funny, but full of caustic humour and flawed characters of all ages. It was [...]

Since last Summer, I’ve been on a mission to discover the truth about feminism and on my journey I’ve discovered some pretty random things; A-list, or should I say hair-list, celebrity armpits, a she-chauvinist Spice Girl, lots of books and a Borat clip. These are the window dressings of the mainstream media when it tries [...]