Joined Mumsnet Bloggers

I have had a Mumsnet account since 2008 and generally just lurked in threads about teenagers, eduction and large families, occasionally posting. I've just applied, and been accepted as a Mumsnet blogger, no pressure there then. I've been browsing the Mumsnet bloggers network help pages to get some hints and tips about blogging. I've added a badge and now I need to join the review panel and find out how to get the widget.

New blog focus

I've changed my blog title and layout today as part of my blog refresh. Time moves on and my old profile is no longer upto date.

An occasional blog sharing my experiences as a mother of 4 teenagers, school governor and university administrator. Usually written at the kitchen table where I lurk all evening in the hope that one of my teenagers will talk to me when they come to raid the fridge.

 The children are no longer teenagers and spend very little time at home. I'm entering a new phase of my life as an empty nester.

A consolidated blog

 I have spent today importing my blog posts in the University in-house blogging tool, elgg, into Blogger to join my non-work blog  (formerly Yorkshire kitchen tales and Aga kitchen tales) so I could import all of my blog rambling into a single site. The elgg blog site isn't supported any more and I didn't want to lose my old posts. There aren't very many of them but they stretch back to April 2007.

The original idea was to have a work blog on elgg and a non-work blog. The work blog is now in Wordpress. Going the extra mile hbillington.wordpress.com