July 23rd, 2007 by 
Terri
by Yucky Mummy contributor Annette Loughlin-Smith
I am a bit over the new technology or Web 2.0 as it’s called. It’s everywhere I look. Everyone seems to be talking Web 2.0 or on it eg. John Howard on Youtube. Last week I spent nine hours at a course learning how Web 2.0 technologies can be implemented into marketing solutions. We looked at MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, other Social Networking sites, Second Life, Flickr, Youtube, Atom, Widgets, RSS, ipods, vpods and blogs, mobile technologies, interactive TV and mashups (which curiously sound like they should be a Jamie Oliver potato dish!). The pervasiveness of these new technologies is astonishing. I learned that Ethiopia is spending 10 per cent of its GDP on broadband installation. Astounding when their children are literally starving to death. Read the rest of this entry »
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July 19th, 2007 by Terri
This week my little boy and I achieved a milestone: we went to the dreaded dentist’s for the first time. Even better, he got a clean bill of health. Now to some people this might not seem like great shakes. But to me, who has had five teeth removed, a mouth full of fillings, and worn braces in my 30s, it was a major achievement. It was also pay back for all those times I’ve shoved a toothbrush into a flailing and screaming child’s mouth.
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July 17th, 2007 by Terri
The weekend presented a curly one from Mr Almost Four. We were talking about how me and his Dad got married and he asked whether that was before or after he was born. I explained that his Dad and me met, loved each other, got married and then decided we wanted to have a baby and that baby turned out to be him. Yes but how did you have a baby, he said. Now I’m all for telling kids the truth about everything. But I had to wonder. Surely almost four is too young for talk about penises being inserted into vaginas. Isn’t it?
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July 12th, 2007 by Terri
Yucky Mummy contributor Leisa always imagined pole dancing was something for strippers. Now, after a few terms of lessons, pole dancing has changed her life.
It started with a Kate Moss, then a Vanessa into a backward stag, open leg Jamilla and into a Frank… All sound double Dutch to you? Just over 8 weeks ago it was to me too. You see a girlfriend, who really wanted to exercise but was yet to find any form that kept her interested for more than five minutes, informed me that we were signing up for pole dancing lessons – in a studio of course. I thought “Why not?” While I can stay with an exercise for over five minutes, I did need something new to keep my interest. Read the rest of this entry »
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