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Homeschooling: Writing ladders
Today I’ve been working on some writing ladders. These are sentences with blanks in them for children to fill in. I’ve designed them with no right or wrong answers, so children can use their creativity and invent their own answers. The whole point is to fire their imaginations and get them practising their writing. The…
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A new adventure
Ok so I’ve been posting for a while now about running an author business and I’m really excited to announce that I’m embarking on a new adventure. I’m starting a degree in a couple of weeks with the Open University in Computing and Design. Alongside this, I’m starting a new members-only group called The Creativity…
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Asparagus fails
Before I moved to my new flat without a garden, I attempted to grow asparagus a few times. Let’s see how that turned out (spoiler: not well). The first thing I did was, a couple of years back, I bought a pack of seeds. This was before I really understood why people didn’t grow everything…
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How I moved countries with two babies and prepping update
This past year has been quite chaotic. I stopped posting on here the day before I moved countries from Ireland to England with my two babies. The whole house needed to be packed into one small van, then we had to drive (and sail) to England. The hardest part was planning how to time everything.…
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10 Ways To Get Cash To Your Small Business
Here are 10 ways to improve cash flow to your product-based business Implement a marketing plan. This will give you direction and strategy. While you’re cooking that up… Offer an entry-level product that gives people instant gratificationFor a book business, this would be a free or $0.99 book 1 of a series. For a knitting…
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The Marketing Adventurers League is Coming!
Are you having adventures (or misadventures) in marketing? Do you want to join a supportive community of side hustlers/small business owners/new business owners looking for advice on how to get established and scale their business? If so, the Marketing Adventurers League is for you. Join the waitlist here to be the first to hear when…
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Misadventure: 4am in a tree with a flute
When I was at uni I thought I did ridiculous deeds because I was drunk, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to realise that I did ridiculous deeds anyway, and sometimes I was also partially inebriated. During an archaeological dig at a place called Star Carr in the summer holidays between first and second…
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Misadventure: Trapped in the Car Park
This happened back when there was still our favourite soft play. It was a Thursday. Afterwards, we went to the library and had a happy two hours looking at books. Both babies chose some nice books (okay, the two-month-old didn’t really choose her own books but she smiled at a couple so I borrowed them…
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Coping with toddler tantrums with a nonverbal or speech delayed toddler
It is super frustrating that a lot of the advice about toddler tantrums assumes that they have some kind of magical adult vocabulary to understand concepts like “big emotions” or “why”. I don’t have a toddler like that. When mine turned two we had a lovely month of “I thought the twos were supposed to…
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Misadventure: Fairies
This is a misadventure about magic, and the watershed between knowing magic is real, as children do, and knowing it isn’t. Both parties KNOW this, and yet… doesn’t that suggest that knowledge depends on your point of view? When I was 8, I moved schools from St Giles RC to The Valley County Primary in…
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