The BritMums Blog

Join the @BritMums back to school bloghop

Shhhh, it's nearly time. Yes, that time...time to go back to school! Don't tell the kids or the last week of summer will be filled with moaning and groaning! But tell us, how excited are you about waving them off at the school gate? How thrilled are you to be resuming a ROUTINE that helps you to get through the week without losing your mind? Will you be getting your "ME" time back in a couple of weeks time? How on earth will you fill the hours between 9am and 3:30pm? We have an idea you'll come up with something to do.

In the meantime, as the summer is ending and thoughts of school uniforms and lunchbox meals fill your head, we'd like to give you the chance to jump back into blogging with both feet. We know that the summer is a good time to step back from blogging. Sometimes we need a bit of motivation or incentive to get back into a blogging routine (much like our children). BritMums is here for you!

Join the BritMums June Blog Hop!

June is here, summer is creeping into our thoughts, school fetes and the final weeks of the school year are filling our calendars. The daunting prospect of 6-7 weeks of NO SCHOOL is starting to sink in as well. Whatever will we do with this time? Go on holiday? Enroll our kids in camps and activities? Take time to smell the roses?

Well, before the manic days of summer kick in, let's have another BritMums Blog Hop to remind ourselves of the wonderful bloggers in our community. You can find some new reads, remind yourselves of some "old" favourites and prepare your reading rota for the endless weeks ahead.

Join the BritMums May blog hop!

Can you believe that May is nearly gone? Spring is sprung and Summer is sitting on our doorstep! We're all looking forward to our last Spring Bank Holiday, starting to countdown to the end of school and planning our summer holidays. But wait! Before you get carried away with the boys of summer, let's take this opportunity to have a final Spring BritMums Blog Hop!

Get hopping! Join the #britmums Easter Blog Hop

  It's nearly Easter and most of us are knee-deep in the joy of the holidays. Some of us have more holiday to enjoy, others are half-way there. One thing's for sure, we're all enjoying the warm sunshine and finally dusting off the dregs of Winter.

To keep your reading material flowing over the next two weeks of the month, we'd like to launch the April BritMums Blog Hop. This is your chance to put your blog forward for BritMums everywhere to read and enjoy.

A BritMums Blog Hop is super simple. Just add your blog url to the linky below. If you'd like to highlight a particular post, maybe one that shows your Easter or Spring spirit or one that you're particularly proud of, then be sure to add the link to that specific post. If you'd like to add the Blog Hop linky code to a post, feel free to grab it so others can join in on the Blog Hopping goodness from your blog as well. Be sure to come back with a cuppa or a glass of your favourite adult beverage to have a browse of the brilliant blogging talent out there.

Until next month, have a very Happy Easter and enjoy the Royal Wedding next week!

 

March #BMB Blog Hop

Ah, Spring...the birds are chirping, the days are lasting longer, the flowers are starting to bloom...a time for renewal...a time for all things bright and beautiful!

What a great time to find a few new blogs to read! We love having a growing lists of brilliant blogs to peruse. It helps us all to be better bloggers! Finding inspiration, being spurred on to write, interact and learn. And it's fun!

We give you the March BMB Blog Hop. It's as simple as a simple thing. Add your blog url to the Linky below. If you're feeling overly ambitious, you can add the Linky code below to your most recent blog post and the Linky will appear on your site as well. Failing that, just add your url and we'll find you!

Be sure to trawl the list and see if you can find 5 new blogs to follow in April. Do your best to comment on them as much as possible as we all LOVE to know that SOMEONE is reading our work. After you're done reading, go outside and enjoy the glorious English Spring that is finally settling in!

~Karin

 

Join the February #BMB Blog Hop!

Love is in the air! There's a touch of spring in the air as well. Some of us have even been lucky enough to witness the first signs of spring with snow drops and wee bits of green poking through the earth. It's such a welcome change to the dreary cold and blowing winds!

In honour of Spring knocking on the door and Valentine's Day, we here at the BMB Blog thought we'd open our doors to the February BMB Blog Hop.

You know the drill...add your blog url to the linky below and if you're feeling technical enough, add the code to keep the hopping going forward. Then come back and check out the new and not-so-new blogs on the block. You're sure to find some fabulous new reads. Share the love by commenting on other's blogs and tweeting about all the brilliant finds you make. 

-Karin

 

Looking for new readers? Join the January Blog Hop

It's the middle of January and it's high time to start introducing ourselves, don't you think? The stress and strain of the Christmas and New Year's holidays is over. The bill paying has begun. The children have gone back to school and it's time to start expanding your blogging portfolio by finding a few new blogs to read.

What better way to find new (and old) blogs than a BMB Blog Hop? All you have to do is write a post on your blog and then come back to BMB to add your link to the Linky widget at the end of this post. If you'd like to add the Linky code to the bottom of your post, the Blog Hop will appear at the bottom of your post as well. Directions are included in the code instructions below. That's it! Sit back and wait for old and new bloggers to find you and then enjoy all the other bloggers you can find as well.

Watch in February for the next BMB Blog Hop and until then, start visiting old and new blogs. Don't forget to comment as well. Not only will you introduce yourself through your comment, the blog owner just may journey to your blog as well. Happy hopping!

 

Join the #BMB December New Member Blog Hop

The end of 2010 is near and we thought it would be lovely to hold one last opportunity to share the love in our growing community. The British Mum Blogging world is on a real high as the year draws to a close. After a lovely Christmas Party and phenominal participation in the Brilliance in Blogging nominations, we'd like to continue our role in introducing new bloggers to the more established ones.

Here's how it works:

A Blog Hop is simple: it's a list of blog with links and you can pick up the coding to pop it into one of your blog posts so readers who come visit your blog keep hopping onto all the other ones on the list.

A BMB Christmas Carol Carnival

 
    Tis the season to be jolly! Join us for the BMB "A Christmas Carol" Carnival. Share with us your favourite memory or wish for Christmas past, present or future. For those of you who will be joining us for the BMB Christmas party on 8th December, we will select a few posts to be read at the event, ala CyberMummy-style.

What do you need to do? Well, it's simple! Write a post about Christmas past, Christmas present or Christmas future. Publish it on your blog and then share the link below. If you are going to the Christmas party and would like to submit your post to be read (by you) at the event, please email [email protected] before Sunday 5th December.

Fa la la la la la la la la!

-Karin

Join the #BMB New Member November Blog Hop

Every day we have new members joining BMB. There are loads of interesting new voices and great new blogs but unless you're trawling our "New to Blogging" board regularly you may find it hard to discover them.

So we're introducing the New Member Blog Hop. A Blog Hop is simple: it's a list of blog with links and you can pick up the coding to pop it into one of your blog posts so readers who come visit your blog keep hopping onto all the other ones on the list.

If you're a new blogger: Add your blog to the list and insert the code at the bottom of your latest post to take part. You don't have to literally be a new blogger, just in the mood to find new blogs and new reads.

If you're an old hand: Check out the list below to meet the gals (and guys) and drop by their blogs to say hello. You might find your new must-read. Add your blog and code too. The more the merrier.

It's a fun way to find new blogs and new readers.

So get hopping!

Here's the code for for Blogger and Typepad:

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 And here's the Wordpress code:

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