British Mummy Blogger of the Week

It's exhausting, this holiday malarky. No matter how good a time you're having, I have to ask; is 'holiday' the best word to describe a trip away that takes military levels of organisation and which sometimes feels just like being at home - only without the convenience of a working washing machine and internet connection?

On top of that you also have to take responsibility for the packing and repacking of your stuff, the kid's stuff and - if you're particularly unlucky / saintly (delete as appropriate) - your significant other's stuff too. Small wonder that often trying to buy, and then find space in your luggage for, all the blockbusting summer novels that you promised yourself you're going to have the chance to read on your 'relaxing' summer holiday, gets prioritised down to a last minute dash to the bookshop in Duty Free...

For those who have small children, are not holidaying with benevolent grandparents attached as doting babysitters, and who have forgotten what it is to sit in the sun with a good book, I'm talking about the books you read in the time you have to yourself.

You know, on your relaxing summer holiday? Time, that is, when you're not making trips to the local supermarket hunting for non-sugar rich breakfast cereal whilst sneaking a croissant or two yourself (it won't show under the control-top swimsuit, surely?), tidying away explosions of beach kit scattered like shrapnel immediately inside the front door, drying out towels and swim suits stiff with salt or chlorine, hunting for the kid's sun lotion, applying said sun lotion, persuading them that wearing their hat in 35degC IS a good idea (I said it IS a good idea, well I don't care if you don't like it; you're wearing it anyway, and stand STILL please whilst I put this factor 50 on you or you'll get it... all over my skirt), and so on.

Which is why I'm being extremely lazy and rather than trawling the members list of British Mummy Bloggers to find you something new to read this week, I thought I would instead gift you (yes, I like that word; 'gift'. It implies great sacrifice on my part rather than simply pulling out a post I wrote earlier for this very occasion) with a full list of ALL the British Mummy Bloggers to-date.

Who needs to pick up a chic-lit novel the width and weight of a telephone directory, when you have the following list? With one click-through you can have access to writing far better than you'll find on most airport bestsellers' lists...

May 2009

http://noblesavage.me.uk/

http://motherhoodthefinalfrontier.com/

http://singleparentdad.blogspot.com/

http://mightymother.info/

June 2009

http://gritsday.blogspot.com/

http://califlorna.com/

http://www.moretolifethanlaundry.com/

http://blogiota.blogspot.com/

July 2009

http://slightlysouthofsanity.blogspot.com/

http://www.britoutofwater.com/

http://aconfusedtakethatfan.blogspot.com/

August 2009

http://sleepisfortheweak.org.uk/

http://emilybassin.blogspot.com/

http://babieswhobrunch.blogspot.com/

http://britsinbosnia.blogspot.com/

September 2009

http://www.appleislandlife.blogspot.com/

http://hotcrossmum.blogspot.com/

http://www.perfectlyhappymum.com/

http://clinicallyfedup.com/

October 2009

http://troutie.blogspot.com/

http://littlegreenfingers.typepad.com/little_green_fingers

MWA online

November 2009

http://isthereaplanb.blogspot.com/

http://www.everydaystranger.net/

http://monavismesamis.blogspot.com/

http://usebefore.blogspot.com/

http://kittymoore.blogspot.com/

December 2009

http://missustd.blogspot.com/

http://notwavingbutironing.wordpress.com/


January 2010

Saffia Farr

February 2010

The Rubbish Diet

Deerbaby

All That Comes With It

March 2010

Notes from Lapland

Fiona Strachan

Reluctant Memsahib,

April 2010

Paparazzi Mum

1950's Housewife

Knackered Mother

Forty Not Out


May 2010

Thankyou for the Days

Marketing To Milk
Country Lite
My Mummy Wrote this For Me
Frazzled Daddy


June 2010

Four Down, Mum to Go?
Beauty Judge Blog
Planet Outreach-ASD


July 2010

Belgravia Wives
Ladybird World Mother

The Coffee Lady

For the British Mummy Bloggers Ning, click here. (Note; it's called 'mummy', but dads can be members too...)