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Mama Adventure is Changing.
I started this blog in 2014 as a place to share travel photos with friends and family after an epic road trip where we drove to Rome for our honeymoon. I was 27 and life was very different. Within the first month I started writing other content on a massive range of topics. Beauty. Rabbits.…
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Leave The World Behind: A Review
I have written over 500 articles on this website, and a significant number of those (over 100 in fact) are reviews of things. But I have never reviewed a film before. Partly, that’s a hangup from doing BTEC media studies at school for part of a year before I dropped out because it was terrible…
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The Body Shop can still save themselves… here’s how
The Body Shop have recently been sold for £207 million, six years after it last changed hands for over £800 million. It’s not their first rodeo. For over a decade, they’ve been bought up and resold over and over and every recent resale has slashed their value. What happened to this once-popular brand and why…
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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…