To my Online Stalker, Many bloggers get a bit of unwanted attention every now and again. They get someone watching far too many of their Instagram Stories, they get people liking every single tweet they send out or they get well meaning strangers stopping them in the street. But, for me, your attention isn’t like that. Your attention is constant in it’s inconsistency. Every few months you will pop up…
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On Friday I travelled down to Somerset for the Flea Retreat – a new event on this year’s blogger calendar. Now, the blogger calendar has been dwindling over recent years – with events changing or stopping so when I first heard about Flea Retreat I was excited. ‘Retreat’ is one of my favourite words, imagining somewhere to relax, unwind and recharge. So I was immediately sold on the idea of…
This date snuck up on me this year. Since I gave up my day job to blog full time the months have all blurred together. But, tomorrow I have been blogging for 6 years and it’s only right that I document this milestone in some way. Last year I wrote about the last five years and all that I was thankful for. But this year I thought I would write…
Oh wow. Where have the years gone? Today, What the Redhead said is three and I have now been blogging for nearly six years. It has gone by in a blur but the last year has been the biggest and most noteworthy so far. The last year was the first one that I spent completely as a full time blogger. What the Redhead said is now my job. But, it…
In 2013 I decided to start taking blogging seriously. I wrote every day, I was constantly on social media and I spent every evening reading and commenting on blogs. I threw myself as much into the blogging community as I possibly could and it felt like I had found my place in life. I finally felt like I belonged. The following year I found myself shortlisted for the Britmums Brilliance…
Now that I’ve moved from my old traditional day job to work as a blogger life couldn’t be better. We have a good balance, I get to be at home with the children and I finally feel like life and work take up the right amount of time each. But, there’s one thing that still always catches me off guard and makes me nervous about this career of mine. When…
It hit me last week that this summer I will be at home for the whole of the summer holidays. This is something I dreamed of since having children and aside from my maternity leave with both children I have worked at least part of the summer holidays since they were born. This has meant juggling childcare, Hubby’s shifts, my work and trying to have some tome together as a…
