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Going to Silicon Valley with kids? Visit The Tech

Wow. The Tech Museum of Innovation is a real Silicon Valley gem. I don’t usually rave about technology museums. They can be, erm, boring, conjuring up images of dusty mainframes, the first PC and maybe even an Apple II. Certainly kids would ask to leave as soon as you got there. But we’re in …

Shattered!

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Boo! My beautiful iPhone4 is shattered! The little jewel slipped out of my hand while taking photos for this post. Hubby cried (he's Scottish and the phone cost £500) . It still seems to work, but I cannot safely use it as it is shedding flecks of glass like a molting dog.

What I learnt from CyberMummy

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What happens when you gather a group of 180 highly talented and influential women in a room together?*

Friends are made, advice is given, hugs and cupcakes are shared.

Hmmm, what shall I do now the girls are in school? I know, read an online serial novel!

Ooohhh, how fun! What better way to fill in my time, now that all the girls are all at school, than to be involved with an online serial novel. How cool! Corduroy Mansions 2 — The Dog Who Came In From The Cold, by Alexander McCall Smith (best known for …

The state of British mummy blogging and the best ones of 2008!

So, the other day at coffee, I brought up my mummy blog. I might as well been speaking Slovenian. Non capiche. What’s a mummy blog?” asked one of the mums, a particularly chummy friend of mine who loves veg patches as much as I do. “It’s a place where mums can …

Is blogging dead? Not on this side of the pond!

Twitter First, the Best of the Mommy Bloggers is up on Under the Big Blue Sky.

Check it out, it’s an eclectic mix of stories from the trenches of motherhood.

Second, I read something the other day that is really bugging me.

Is blogging dead?

The debate is raging in blogosphere. Some prominent bloggers have decided to “retire” because, to sum it up, now that blogging has reached mainstream in the US, it’s not cool anymore.

Microblogging, such as Twitter, is now the “in” thing.