It may have come to your attention that I’ve not been very good about updating this site. This is due to several reasons:

I’m lazy. There is a huge psychological barrier to logging into wordpress, finding the Add New tab, composing a post, previewing it, realising it looks shit, editing it and then hitting [...]

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Pewari’s Prattle is six years old today!
Quite what possessed me to start a blog on April Fool’s Day, I don’t know. I think I suspected that I wasn’t going to keep it going for very long… ha, fooled you!
There have been times that writing here has been a lifeline, times when it gave me [...]

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You may have heard about the recent controversial changes to Google’s ad service which plans to track your activity on the web and then deliver adverts relevant to your interests.
As a Google Adsense user, I’ve been sent an email from them requesting I update my privacy policy before 8th April to reflect these changes (which [...]

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Had a fantastic parents evening with Li’l Bhaji’s teacher this evening. He is in Reception and adores her with all his heart and soul, and it was obvious that the feeling was mutual!
He has apparently met all his targets for Foundation Stage already and has been set Year 1 targets in writing, reading and [...]

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The problem with not writing a blog regularly is that you eventually find you have even less to say.
My brain no longer is in the mode of thinking “oh, I must blog about that” when something happens or I read something interesting during the day. I don’t feel the need to share [...]

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I’m pleased to announce that we have a winner for our recent competition. If you remember, to enter you had to come up with an imaginative alternative use for a Mooncup Pouch.
The winner is: Spinky who would use hers as “An on the move condom holder; for those couples who like to travel safely!”
Congratulations, [...]

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Those that know me well, know that I have a terrible tendency to over-schedule myself.
I pack in every spare moment of time with projects, plans and routines and keep Very Busy [tm]. I need to justify every spare minute and then get upset when a day doesn’t go to plan and I [...]

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For those of you on RSS and haven’t actually noticed, my hair isn’t the only thing that changed yesterday. I had the sudden urge to change the layout and style of the blog too. Many thanks to Akra for giving up his evening to help me sort it all out.
I hope you like [...]

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Yesterday on Twitter, as I have a fair few podcaster followers/followees, I asked if anyone could recommend a decent microphone. Expecting a list of brand names and a budget, what I received instead was a very generous offer of a loaned microphone from @bealers – thank you so much!
Akra dropped in after work and [...]

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I would have posted this earlier but I’ve only just realised. The Prattle is 5 years old today!
Who’d have thought that the person who is well known for starting lots and lots of projects then never finishing any of them would keep up a blog for half a decade?
There’s a moral in that somewhere. [...]

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