Flaminglacer

Today is Blog Action Day – a day when all of us who blog are asked to concentrate on one topic and one topic only – Poverty. There are so many types of poverty that I could sit here and write a list that would go on forever.  Fond as I am of writing lists it would do nobody any good and only feed my ‘list OCD’, and I’m not a ‘sit on your butt and bleat about it’ sort of person, I prefer to take action.  I would rather do something positive and commit to that as my contribution to this day...Read Full Story

I’ve beavered and bustled, torn out not a little hair and become even more of a grumpy old woman than usual - but I have completed (more or less) the theme and the site using FirePow , and an HTML template version of the theme that I developed for the products that are being promoted.  It has certainly been an experience.  Just for good measure I also decided to use PopShops to generate the product pages that I wanted for the second part of the site. Halloween Funny Stuff has finally opened...Read Full Story

I spend a lot of my time working on seasonal sites, which I know many Online Marketers decry.  I like them, they are hard work but I enjoy it. They give a shape to my working life that is often lacking for people who work online.  We don’t have quite the same seasonal influences in our working life - we don’t go past the shops daily on our way to the office, we don’t have the buzz of the office parties, the holidays and the work social life that marks the passage of time in the workplace.  We...Read Full Story

It’s over - after months of training and anticipation we have completed The Moonwalk. I have to say I had no idea it would take over my life to such an extent. The amount of time spent training for the event has been enormous, and has meant many other things, including my blog, have had to go on the back burner. Does that matter - it’s a question of priorities. For anyone who is new to this, The Moonwalk is a walk undertaken mainly by women, to raise funds for Breast Cancer research and...Read Full Story

Small things make such a difference to our lives.  A while ago I made a promise to myself that I would write more, just for the sake of writing.  It’s something I enjoy and it feeds my soul.  Life gets in the way, and when time is short the promises we break are the ones we make to ourselves. I look at the ‘To Do’ list every morning and think to myself ‘I’ll write later, I’ve got to get this lot done first’.  Somehow I never get round to the fun writing, the writing that matters.  A small...Read Full Story