Big Up Your Blog! #SundayBlogShare

11 Jul 2017 80 Comments

by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Big Up Your Blog!, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Blogging Group, Em Linthorpe, Facebook, Suzie Speaks

Want to be part of an absolutely amazing Facebook group of bloggers?

Want to have supportive blog pals at the end of the ether, sharing and commenting on your posts?

Want to grow your social media following genuinely?

Want to showcase your posts to some individuals who actually do care?

Well then, you need to click here to get directed to the Facebook group Big Up Your Blog!

Amazing blogger Suzie, of Suzie Speaks, set up this group at the tail end of last year, and really gave it a huge push this year.

Without it, I wouldn’t have learned of the beauty of Flipboard, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, Instagram and Twitter when it comes to sharing your blog posts!

There is a wonderful community of bloggers on there who get together on various days of the week, to share, or comment on your selected posts. There are opportunities to promote your social media accounts too!

On a Tuesday there is a #BigUpYourBlogger thread, where one member of the group is chosen, and they can have a free for all on sharing their posts, and we, as members, share these posts across our various accounts, using the hashtag.

Wednesday is #WorkWednesday where you can promote anything else that you do, from books you have published, to services that you might advertise on your blog.

#ThrowbackThursday is just that: a day to share an old post that you want to get some love.

#FollowFriday is a day where a specific social media avenue is chosen and you can share your accounts, for example, it may be Pinterest one week, or Instagram another.

The weekends are crazy mad, honestly, but so much fun!

Saturday brings #SocialSaturday, where you choose one post to leave a link for. It’s up to the group to then get on that post, read, and comment on it, to increase your engagement on your blog, not just like and go! This is not really a sharing day, but if you love the post, obviously you can share it too!

And Sunday is the biggie, using the hashtag #SundayBlogShare, which was coined by our very own Suzie! This day allows you to share a post, only one post, which can be read, and shared across the interweb, in whichever way possible!

Monday… well, Monday doesn’t have a specific sharing purpose other than letting you get your breath back!

Also, the lovely Em Inkles ably supports Suzie with the admin, and is in charge of some new Instagram challenges too!

I am not one for chasing numbers, but I have learned a lot, and I can see the difference in my stats when I am sharing my posts in the group, and the support you get from the other members is above and beyond! I have definitely increased my Blogily in the last 6 months!

So… What you waiting for?

You know you want to be part of this fantastic group of Bloggers!

Just click here and request a place!

Follow the group on Twitter: @bigupyourblog

Follow the group on Instagram: @bigupyourblog

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #157 Amused&Irate

10 Jul 2017 17 Comments

by Ritu in #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Amuse & Irate, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Haiku, Ronovan Hester, ronovan writes

Ron’s prompt for this week’s Haiku Challenge.

Amused & Irate

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge Image 2016

image from Pixabay

She is not amused
Out tricks didn’t work so well
Mummy is irate

Ritu 2017

Image from Pixabay

An amused machine
Sensing irate gamblers greed
No Jackpot today!

Ritu 2017

Image from Pixabay

Sitting there smiling
Why do you find it funny
Seeing my anger?

Ritu 2017

Monday Meh! (Again)

10 Jul 2017 104 Comments

by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Exhausted, Life of A Teacher, Monday, School, Summer Plans, tired

Forgive me if I am not as wordy for the next couple of weeks…

The end is in sight, but it still feels far away!

Two more weeks until I can slip my teacher hat off and actually relax!

But there are still plenty of jobs to get done before I can do that!

The school kids don’t know yet which teachers they are getting next year, so there is a little buzz around because there are some changes in place. We have met most of our new students, and half have visited us, but there are still a few more to come. There is all manner of paperwork that needs updating and sorting out before the year ends, to tie up loose ends, and prepare for the next academic year.

I will probably need to pencil in the first week of holidays as time to go back into school with my colleagues to prepare the classrooms too!

Then, my envisioned summer of writing and keeping the kids occupied took a different turn, when we got a sudden influx of wedding invites!

At least 4 weekends with functions, one in the week day, I need to figure out when we are going to spend a week with my parents, and we are going to try and get away last minute too!

But on the flip side, I managed to make it public in my household that I do intend to concentrate on writing during the break, so now I have said it, I gotta do it, eh! If my Hubby Dearest wants to be a kept man, funded by the spoilts of my best seller, he needs to let me write it, eh!

Back to the now…

I am falling asleep much earlier each night due to exhaustion.

I have mentioned being so tired in the past…

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Actually, right now, I am just plain exhausted, and I do give a shit! I don’t like to leave my blogily hanging either! So I will be around, but I might not be as noisy as I usually am!

So I am off to drag myself into the shower, and get ready for the penultimate Monday of term… And I shall try not not yawn…but I can’t promise that!

Have a much perkier Monday than I think I’m going to have Peeps!

Spidey’s Serene Sunday – Part 125

09 Jul 2017 36 Comments

by Ritu in Spidey's Serene Sundays, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Calm, Quote, Serene, Smile, Spiderman, Spidey, Spidey's Serene Sunday

“Let your smile change the world, but don’t let the world change your smile.” – Connor Franta

What a beautiful quote Spidey found to ponder upon today!

It’s amazing what a simple smile can do.

A random smile from even a stranger can light up a dark moment for you.

To be greeted with a smile makes for a more positive start to each day.

I smile.

A LOT.

It gets commented on a lot too.

I am known for my positivity wherever I go.

When I was at university, I was described as ” That smiley, curly haired girl from Birmingham.”

One of my previous employers said to me that it was a pleasure to have me around as he could guarantee a smile whenever he saw me.

I’m not talking about sneers or sarcastic smiles, or cheesy grins, just genuine smiles.

And I smile pretty much all the time. It’s just me. It makes me who I am. It makes me feel happier in myself, and makes me look at all situations with a more positive eye.

Of course, there are times smiles are not appropriate, and I know that too.

You won’t find me grinning inanely at a funeral or at some sad or bad news.

But otherwise, it is there, more or less permanently.

Of course, there are always those who can’t stand a happy face! (Why ever not? Surely it’s good to smile!)

But I refuse to allow them to drag me down to their miserable depths!

Don’t they know how many facial muscles I am exercising every time I smile?! It’s my daily workout!

Have a Smiley, happy Sunday Peeps!