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Thanks Croydonian
Many thanks to Croydonian for recommending my name to dmoz - the largest human-edited directory of the web. It was a total surprise and I read about it on his site today. He posted it yesterday (my birthday) hence my comment thanking him for a truly unique present....
Hope to get the all clear today
David outside GOS prior to an op last year I am taking my son David to Great Ormond Street today and we hope to get the all clear as he is so much better. He has been in the most excuciating and agonising pain and his chronic oseteomyelitis was difficult for...
Congratulations Julian Sturdy
Julian Sturdy Many congratulations to Julian Sturdy on being selected the Conservative candidate to contest the new York Outer parliamentary seat. It was a particularly great achievement as he was chosen in preference to two A-list candidates, Kevin Hollinrake and...
Don’t sound like a politician if you want to win
Senator John Edwards US Senator John Edwards has this advice about winning a future election in an age of informality - don't sound like a politician, at least in the USA. Neville Hobson believes that many politicians over here might share the same view, but wouldn't...
Disaster waiting to happen – the HIPs
Moving house is already one of the most stressful experiences anyone can have, but be warned, this time next year it will be considerably worse! A new law is due to be implemented from June 2007, the new Home Information Packs, which experts have warned will hit jobs,...
What gravitas does a UK blogger have?
As a journalist, I can pick up the phone and speak to virtually anyone I want, or at the very least get a comment from their spokesperson for a story. It gives you instant access. I wanted to test if I had the same gravitas as a blogger - and found out, yes, with a...
My son’s Prom
David, Laura and Jodie The environmentally friendly way of arriving Shortly after we married, my husband was told by his consultant that he may have a medical problem which would make it impossible for us to conceive. But hey presto, our son David came along and was...
ConservativeHome v LabourHome
Ros Taylor has enjoyed some "naval gazing", comparing the innards of ConservativeHome versus the new Labour version; she is the Grauniad feature writer who called me yesterday. She concludes: "The first two waves of British political blogging - led by neoconservatives...
G2 and women political bloggers
"Just for the boys?" - what a great headline. And here is the G2 report in today's Guardian about the dearth of women political bloggers. I'm amazed that no female Tory politicans have embraced this, that I seem to be their authoritive voice on this subject - and I...