What do I mean by simplifying life? I am guilty of doing too many things, and hence doing none of them very well. Since taking up blogging, I have found myself getting swamped in things that don’t add value to my life, so I have decided to do a bit of a clear out. Email… Continue reading Simplifying Life
Category: Blogging
GDPR UK for the small blogger
This post is because of a forthcoming change in UK legislation, which is making me consider the future of this blog. GDPR – General Data Protection Register, to give its full title affects any company or individual who holds personal data. It comes in force in the UK on 25th May 2018 Initially I thought it… Continue reading GDPR UK for the small blogger
Save Money – Postpone Shopping
Save Money – postpone shopping. Well that’s pretty obvious isn’t it? It’s not a shopping ban, just postpone going grocery shopping by a day or two each week, or putting off that major purchase for a month or two. This week, my husband and I were feeling particularly lazy. For the last few days, we… Continue reading Save Money – Postpone Shopping
Mastering Bloglovin
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Starting Off I’ve just signed up to Bloglovin, and I am trying to ‘Claim my blog’, so I am following the instructions to put this in the first part of a blog post. I filled in all the details, and then decided to ‘claim my blog’. The first instruction was to… Continue reading Mastering Bloglovin
Happy Birthday Cracking Retirement
It is Cracking Retirement’s 1st birthday. On the 18th September this blog turned 1. If I liken it to human development, it is at best a toddler, just learning how to make its voice heard and starting to walk unaided. As some of you may have noticed from my post earlier this week, I am in… Continue reading Happy Birthday Cracking Retirement
My Blog – Magazine or Diary?
Is my blog a magazine or diary? When I started my blog I didn’t really dig too deep into my reasons for doing so. I felt there was a gap in the world of retirement blogs, particularly in the UK. Had I got a plan for what I wanted to say, or what I felt… Continue reading My Blog – Magazine or Diary?