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Behind the scenes at BritMums Live!

Blogers waiting to get inMany of you know that I’m the founder of BritMums, the UK’s largest parent blogging community with nearly 4,000 members that represent more than 7,000 blogs with a reach of nearly 20 million page views a month.

More than 500 people flooded The Brewery in London on June 22 and 23, 2012, for BritMums Live!, the biggest parent blogger conference in the UK. Ruby Wax kicked things off with a frank and funny discussion of her depression and her online community Black Dog Tribe. From there we had blogger roundtable discussions, workshops, the Brilliance in Blogging party and awards, Sarah Brown, Cherry Healey, the Bloggers’ Keynote, social networking training, advice on charitable fund raising and awareness, fruity drinks, style sessions, film sneak peeks, pedicures, vacuuming (!), photobooths and much much more.

A Modern Mother’s Thai Turkey Lettuce Wraps

When we lived in California, hubby and I used to regularly go Spice and Rice in La Jolla. This Thai Kitchen was a local favourite. You could sit outside, even in January, and enjoy colourful, flavourful food that stretched your taste buds just that much further. It was good value too. …

A day of BritMums protest

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The BritMums parent blogging community is coming togther today for a day of protest about the situation in Syria. 

Spearheaded by Liz from A Mum Blog and Justine from The Potty Diaries, the idea is to use our collective voice to be heard and make a difference.

Liz writes, 

"As parents, it is impossible not to be affected by the reports of the full horror of the Houla massacre. This is from Wednesday's Times:

A Modern Mother’s Super Easy Med-Inspired Fish Stew

Fish stew, fresh Haddock

The fabulous Fish Is the Dish peeps sent me over a load of fresh Haddock via @ukSeafoodchef. 

So what to make with it?

The wet weather inspired me to create this really easy fish stew, with a Mediterranean influence.

Here goes…

You need a BiB!

I don't write that much BritMums here, the parent blogger network I founded nearly four years ago. Actually I don't seem to be writing much here at all! BritMums is keeping me very, very busy.

 For one, we just launched the Brilliance in Blogging Awards - aka The BiBs. They celebrate the best parent blogs in the UK on a wide variety of topics and styles. There's a category for newbies, there's a category for foodies, there's even a category for daddies (although we expect we'll see them in some of the other categories as well…fashion, anyone?).

My phone made it to Hong Kong!

Have you been following my little project with O2 Recycle? I recycled my shattered iPhone  and O2 was kind enough to track her journey from my house to new owner. The poor little darling was so nervous when she left here. I didn’t have the heart to tell her I got £157 for recycling …

BritMums Live Meet & Greet

Ss photo cupcakeHello, I'm Susanna, the founder of BritMums, the UK's largest parent blogging network with more than 3,000 members with an aggregated reach of 12 million. I was also a founder of CyberMummy.

We're holding our big annual blogger conference BritMums Live! in June, and Carly over at Stepford Wifey is hosting a Meet & Greet on her blog.

I know it's nearly five months away, and my hair (and body shape) may change by then, but here goes:

“The List” for Friday: work, cake sale, chat with Sarah Jessica Parker

So, it's just another Friday evening. I got the train home early, stopped by Tesco to pick up something for the school cake sale, popped a pizza in the oven for the girls' tea and spoke with Sarah Jessica Parker for a half hour! BritMums were supposed to talk with …