New blog posts: Sunday 29 July to Sat 4 August

[TheNewson]

May I please kick off with my blog about free newspaper holidays...?

thenews-on.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/holidays-in-sun.html

//www.thenews-on.blogspot.com

[yummymummyreally]

QueenMaeve Sorry for the delay in replying... We've been away and my phone/laptop both seem very tempremental when away from home. I hope the wine was good and that you feel better.

[QueenMaeve]

Thank you Yummymummyreally will neck that wine!

[hertfordshiremummy]

My children are 2 and 4 and its hard work at the moment but is there ever a "perfect" age gap?

hertfordshiremummy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/whats-perfect-age-gap.html

[yummymummyreally]

QueenMaeve How awful! I'm really sorry to hear that. Is there any chance you will start again? You can turn off the comments facility, and many people do, prefering instead to engage in conversation with their readers using twitter/facebook and leaving the blog to be purely their own. I was pretty tempted at one point. I think if I started to get comments like that I would. It's just not nice and there's no excuse for bullying, online or otherwise.

I hope you feel better. Have a and on me.

[landofmakebelieve]

Baroness - Great post, LandOfMakeBelieve, from a fellow Yorkshire-ite!

Thank you!

[landofmakebelieve]

I've been spending today pretending to be a York tourist....
Cue a blog post of out and about round York...
castawaywithdreams.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/a-day-in-york-pretending-to-be-a-tourist/

[Stressymummy]

My first post over here! Introducing the Mumlympics!
www.stressymummy.com/2012/08/mumlympics.html

[mrsshortiesmind]

A bit of doom and gloom from me, been a hard week. mrsshortiesmind.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/parenting/

[hertfordshiremummy]

A review and my first competition to win some back to school goodies - please enter!

hertfordshiremummy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/stuck-on-you-back-to-school-giveaway.html

[Bex66]

Why you shouldn't do a 5 mile run on the back of a kir and 4 glasses of wine - //www.howilostweight.co.uk

[aliceemma]

thechaosqueen bicarb of soda so rocks - the best only thing that gets the smell of wee and sick out car seats, buggies, carpets etc

...mumsmakelists.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/top-tips-cleaning-up-sick-wee-worse.html

[RecipeJunkie]

Queen Maeve I am so sorry to hear about your blog. Can't believe how horrible people are.

[RecipeJunkie]

we went to the Pick Your Own today. Lush fruit = strawberry icecream and raspberry jam. And Meringues made with the egg white left over from teh ice cream. Busy busy busy.

[FiveHoursCommute]

Next, We Watched The Archery

[BaronessOrczy]

Really sorry to hear about your blog QueenMaeve, I hope you're feeling a bit better now? I hope you will come back to blogging, like MmeG I enjoyed your posts.

I was very nearly an Olympian today when I went for gold.

[sonnyandluca]

We've been making, eating, but mainly playing with play-doh.

The Adventures of Sonny & Luca

[aliceemma]

Meant to be packing but we're busy blowing up balloons with 1 tspn of bicarb, 40 ml of water shaken in a bottle & juice of a lemon ... mumsmakelists.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/top-tips-science-experiments-with-under.html

[KiwiNomad]

Allo allo....I've got 2 posts from this week, my usual Treasure Box Tuesday (which I am considering creating a linky for if anyone wants to join in) and Chaos Cooking instalment, yummy easy beer bread!

Treasure Box Tuesday the retro birthday edition

Chaos Cooking Episode #5: Easiest Beer Bread Ever!

Pop over for a squiz

x

[wannaBe]

hello. I haven't blogged for a while (have been working on rl stuff and another blog which isn't here in the network) but this week I have

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that's not quite on the same level as other perspectives...

[lifeafterdebt]

Getting back in the harness after a holiday often feels like getting slapped, very hard, across the face with real life.

American writer EB White once said, ?If the world were merely seductive that would be easy. If it were merely challenging that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and desire to enjoy it. This makes it hard to plan the day? lifeafterdebts.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/real-life-revisted.html

[thechaosqueen]

New on the blog.....I'm experimenting with more ways to clean with vinegar and bicarbonate of soda. If things make cleaning quicker, it's a winner in my book - and vinegar and bicarb are cheap, green and non-toxic too. Perfect!

Fridges, floors and showers....vinegar and bicarbonate of soda clean them all!!!

[QueenMaeve]

You're probably right MmG. Thanks for that

[yassusarah]

Last Olympic one from me I promise. But we were there yesterday, London 2012, absolutely incredible and we had front row seats by some way of enormous fortune!

[TeWiDoesTheHulaInHawaii]

A stonkingly long list of free museums and how to watch a seed growing

[PetiteRaleuse]

A guest post today from a fellow MN blogger who needs your help and ideas about feeing fussy toddlers. And it's all in aid of charity :)