What a blogger looks like 'at conference'Over the weekend I attended ProBlogger conference which is (drum roll) a conference about blogging.Somebody said that getting 700 plus bloggers in one place to talk about something they're fanatical about made us sound a bit...

When I was younger I used to love participating in the 40 hour famine.  I'd like to say that it was just because I am a nice person and raising money for people less lucky than myself was a driving part of my personality from birth, but I suspect my early social...

I didn't blog much in July.  My brain was basically overwhelmed by the world's general dickishness and I really felt that if people were going to be such arsehats to each other, there was nothing I could say or do that would change that. But then just this...

Virgin Australia has posed a challenge to the Problogger community to put our top travel tips into a blog and share it with our readers.  There’s even some frequent flyer points up for grabs for a few lucky bloggers. There is not a man or woman in the world...

Ten years ago, after a couple of years living in London, I was living in Dublin and working at Microsoft while my then boyfriend, now husband, Nick lived in London and worked at NADFAS. We maintained our relationship by telephone and contributing significantly to the...

We've just had a period of six weeks where nothing but nothing was in our control. We had no dog to leave us but when the silver lining in your life is your rent increase (much lower than we were expecting) you know that things aren't being as much fun as they could...

I was recently hanging out with a group of friends and our assortment of little people and I was struck by the fact that collectively - parents set their kids up to fail a lot more often than we care to admit.I thought maybe it was just the assortment of people. But...

"It's fine for you Al, you're an extrovert!""It's fine for you Al, you love meeting people!""It's fine for you Al, you never shut up!"Talk about damning with faint praise. It happens a lot.  Like every single time I say something will be "fun" because I have...

Versions of the following five comments are frequently made in the discussion about marriage equality. And with the topic being back in the media at the moment, they are popping up in badly constructed and mis-spelled sentences with the kind of gay* abandon we haven't...

A brilliant question my darling girl.And one I palmed off beautifully by telling her to ask her Dad because HEY LOOK AT THAT A YELLOW CAR.Diverted. I watched the ABC's The #Agony of God a few weeks ago and was quite cheered in parts and a bit glum in others. Some...

Earlier this week I was lucky to spend almost two hours with somebody who regularly writes about 'the feels'. Sometimes she writes so rawly, so openly and so emotively that I find it difficult to read.  Not because the writing is bad - quite the opposite, it's...

A couple of days ago, my feed was full of people saying "Happy Mothers Day" or "Happy Mother's Day" which are both very lovely and very nice and very festive and yes, both are deemed grammatically correct.But they were all followed swiftly by a bunch of posts where...