I have to show you all this lovely basket I won from L’Occitane En Provence
It is a fabulous prize with lovely shampoo, conditioner, eau de cologne, soaps, face, body and foot creams, and more. It is an absolutely fabulous gift. I don’t win things very often, so this is a very welcome prize.
Thank you very much.
xx
Joanna from Little Monkey – Bookshop 4 Kids asked me to take a look at her website and the books that she has for sale. As I am such an avid book reader, I couldn’t resist taking a peek at what her shop has to offer.
Little Monkey – Book Shop 4 Kids
The bookshop has a small, but comprehensive collection of books, small toys and games, and is certain to grow with time.
I found a product that one of my children would be particularly interested in. A puzzle that would fit in with his favourite toys, and certainly a puzzle that I have not come across anywhere else.
48 large pieces to create their very own brightly illustrated floor puzzle. A lovely product. I could imagine one of my boys spending hours and hours on this puzzle, as he is an avid digger fan, and it is certainly on my shopping list.
Little Monkey has also offered my blog readers the chance to win £20 of books from her bookshop. This is a lovely prize to get, and there is sure to be something on her website to suit everyone.
To enter:
For a second entry, make sure you are following me on Google Friend Connect
Good luck everyone. This will be a fantastic surprise for someone. The closing date is 31st May 2011.
Yada, yada, yada. I see the look on the faces of anyone that I mention twitter to. It is normally met with some kind of snigger, and snort, or some comment of how they have far too much to do to spend time on twitter, or asking why I would want to talk to strangers every day. After that, I don’t tell them I tweet.
Because of the reactions, very few people know that I tweet. My husband and kids know, and they snigger and snort at it. I have two people in RL apart form that who know, and they are fine with it. So much so, that they even know about this blog. If you are reading this, yes, you know who you are. That’s it though. To other people, my twitter doesn’t really exist.
My enjoyment of using twitter is totally founded on the fact that I have met new friends very quickly. These are friends, whom we rarely meet, or hardly know, yet we talk to each other nearly every day.
Pre twitter, it was hard for me to imagine that I would enjoy it so much, or that I would end up setting up a blog, and writing away into the cyberspaceworld. I would like to go public as some of you do, and reveal my face to the world, but I am not comfortable doing that at the moment, so I am doubly grateful for the lovely people who have come into my twitter stream.
My top 5 reasons for tweeting
1 – I have someone to talk to at any time of day. There is always someone on the other end of the keyboard in my timeline now. And that is not just anyone. They are going to be people like me, with kids, with problems, and not pretending that everything in their lives is rosy.
2 – I don’t have the time with special needs in the family to do the coffee mornings, lunch groups, or mummy socialising locally, and twitter offers me the opportunity to mix with both special needs and mainstream mums. I get the best of both worlds, which doesn’t happen in real life.
3 – I am doing something that I would never have done before. Thanks to twitter, I am travelling 500 miles to a place I haven’t been to before, to meet a few hundred other women who have met through blogging at Cybermummy in London.
4 – I found blogging. Through reading some other peoples blogs, and deciding that I needed an outlet to keep me sane, I started blogging last year. I messed up when I transferred across to my own domain and lost it all, so it was start all over again. This blog started in November / December and will take time to build up, and at the moment, I am enjoying having somewhere to splurge. Do I want to take it further, not yet, as it’s fun.
5 – I thrive on the sometimes multiple, fast conversations going on. All those people who join in, all the people helping each other when someone asks for help, and the fact that it keeps me sane.
That’s it from me. I think I have been lucky in that I have not managed to get myself into any twitter arguments. This is the secret though isn’t it. It’s like a little secret society of fast moving conversation followers. The speed it moves in comparison to facebook is astounding.
Thats it from me, and if you haven’t tried twitter, it takes a little time to find your circle, and expand to follow the people that you like. I tried three times before I really got into it. I’ll have withdrawal symptoms on holidays this year !!!!!!
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