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New Feeds April

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New blogs to the feed reader since March 31st –

Adventures with Rachel
Agent Mystery Case
Anabel’s Travel Blog
Art Peace
Badfish Out of Water
Blog Apocalypse
Bubbles in my Head
Capitol Hill Style
Clients From Hell
Elephant’s Child
Eye on the Edge
Good Woman
Hawaii News and Island Information
it just Dawned on me . . .
JibberJabberUK
Klar Himmel – Clear Skies – Carpe Noctem
Life at Number Five
Maison Cupcake
MamaMarmalade
Musing Off The Mat
my2morrows
Nutsrok
Patti Dawn Swanson
Part Time Monster
Random Musings And Wanderlust
Rants from Mommyland
SilverTiger
Snippets & Snapshots
That’s so pants
The Other Side of Sixty
The Plastic Mancunian
The Second Half of My Life
The Siberian American
Tin and Thyme
TurtleHead
Welcome to my World
You Gotta Start Somewhere

Welcome to my feedreader, bloggers.

There are 37 of you. In my internet travels I found my way to your blog, often because I read a blogger who linked to you. I liked your blog a lot. While there, I probably read back about 40+ posts or so. Then I added you to my feedreader..

Most of you will know what a feedreader is, but in case you do not, click here for info. The quick run down – it is an awesome program which collects new articles that bloggers post. So when you post something new, I get a copy, and if I have the time and something to say, I will click through and comment. If you want to get a feed reader, I highly recommend Inoreader, which I have been using a lot lately.

At the end of 6 months or so, if I am still loving your blog as much as I did when I added you to my feed reader, I will add you to my permanent blogroll. YAY!

October New Feed Review –

It has now been six months since October, so this month I have gone through the review process and the blogs which I am keeping are these –

Adelaide and Beyond
A is for Abi
A Wheelbarrow Full Of Style
Adventures Of A Riot Grrrl
Australian Subscription Boxes
Big Fat Betty
Call Me Kim
CamiKaos
Elizabeth Spiers
Feeling flabulous
Healthy Food For Living
High Riser
Memoirs of a Chronic Chick
Mookie’s Life
Pinkgemma.com
Plus Size & Proud
Polished Curves
Pretty Big Butterflies
redhotcentre
Sarah’s Heart Writes
Seana Smith
The Curved Opinion
The I Love You Song
The Not So Secret Diary of a Wannabe Princess
Under The Porch Light

Why did I unsubscribe from 20 of the 45 blogs? Some of the reasons are as follows listed in no particular order – taken from my blog posts 14 Reasons and 10 New Reasons I unsubscribed from blogs.

Where Are You? I’m Not Feeling It. I’m Waiting. They Told Me They Were Quitting. Blogs With A Partial Feed. They Became Brainwashed.

A Note About Next Month.

In November last year I participated in NaBloPoMo as well as Nano Poblano and I did a commenting challenge. By the end of November I had added 133 new blogs to the feed reader. I’m going to be pretty ruthless in extracting the gems out of this list and creating folders with a more manageable number of blogs and I have to be totally honest with you – I am really looking forward to doing this, because some of these bloggers have turned out to be a bit annoying.. :(

Is your blog not found on the blogroll or in the recent new feeds posts? Would you like Snoskred to test drive your blog? Email Snoskred via the contact page and Snoskred will add your blog to her feed reader. :)

See previous new feeds for March – February – January & December – November – October – September – August – July –

New Feeds

New Feeds March

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New blogs to the feed reader since 28 Feb –

A Dingo Named Gerald
Angry people in local newspapers
Ask a Manager
can I get a witness
Captain Awkward
leslie beslie
Nouveau North Westerners
Souvlaki for the Soul
The View Is Beautiful
writes like a girl
Writing, fatshion, me

Welcome to my feedreader, bloggers.

There are just 11 of you this month. In my internet travels I found my way to your blog, often because I read a blogger who linked to you. I liked your blog a lot. While there, I probably read back about 40+ posts or so. Then I added you to my feedreader..

Most of you will know what a feedreader is, but in case you do not, click here for info. The quick run down – it is an awesome program which collects new articles that bloggers post. So when you post something new, I get a copy, and if I have the time and something to say, I will click through and comment. If you want to get a feed reader, I highly recommend Inoreader, which I have been using a lot lately.

At the end of 6 months or so, if I am still loving your blog as much as I did when I added you to my feed reader, I will add you to my permanent blogroll. YAY!

Is your blog not listed here but you would like it to be? Email Snoskred via the contact page and Snoskred will add your blog to her feed reader. :)

September New Feed Review –

And it has now been six months since September, so this month I have gone through that process and the blogs which I am keeping are these –

A Cartoon Guide to Becoming A Doctor
ababsurdo.com
Cauldrons and Cupcakes
Cooker and a Looker
fivefairiesandafella
Good Day, Regular People
It’s Time
JUST ME
Just me, Leah.
kindredsoulsinseoul
Kingfisher Cove
Life & Other Crises
Lukes Fishin’ Mission
Mrs BC’s House Of Chaos
Our Town Brisbane
Pamela J
Rustic Bites
TARYTERRE
Woosang Was Here

I must point out that this months additions had an extremely high amount of bloggers who went straight to my favourites folders. In fact, I created two new favourites folders especially and did a bit of a reshuffle. If you are looking for new blogs to read, I highly recommend checking out the above blogs.

Why did I unsubscribe from 7 of the 26 blogs? As per my 14 Reasons Readers Unsubscribe From Blogs. post – the reasons were as follows listed in no particular order –

Where Are You? I’m Not Feeling It. I’m Overwhelmed. They Were Cliquey. They Only Provide A Partial Feed.

See previous new feeds for February – January & December – November – October – September – August – July –

New Feeds

New Feeds February

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New blogs to the feed reader since 31 January –

Back Porch Tales
Beautiful, Free and Wonderful
BeautyfulYouniverse
Disco me to Oblivion, baby!
Frivolous Mrs D
Galla Creek Ephemeris
Going Gently
Jessica Luxe
Letters From Launna
Lone Wolf Concerto
Modest Nobility
Mrs BeBe Blog
My Crappy House
My romance with running
Practical Parsimony
RecipeGirl
Rosanna’s Kitchen
Sarah Jane’s Addiction
Scallywag Sprints
She Might Be Loved
Spotlights On The Redhead
Stunningly Mediocre
Sugar, Darling?
Tea Was Here
The Adored Life
The Eat More Food Project
The House on the Hill
Tiffany Bee
Unicorns in the Mist
Velvet Sacks
zamamabakes.com

Welcome to my feedreader, bloggers..

There are 31 of you. In my internet travels I found my way to your blog, often because I read a blogger who linked to you. I liked your blog a lot. While there, I probably read back about 40+ posts or so. Then I added you to my feedreader.

Most of you will know what a feedreader is, but in case you do not, click here for info. The quick run down – it is an awesome program which collects new articles that bloggers post. So when you post something new, I get a copy, and if I have the time and something to say, I will click through and comment. If you want to get a feed reader, I highly recommend Inoreader, which I have been using a lot lately.

At the end of 6 months or so, if I am still loving your blog as much as I did when I added you to my feed reader, I will add you to my permanent blogroll. YAY!

August New Feed Review –

It has now been six months since August, so this month I have gone through that process and the blogs which I am keeping are these – in August I divided the blogs into an International and Australian list so I’m keeping that division with the feed review.

International Keepers –

14 Shades Of Grey
Carly Blogs Here
Curves Become Her
Discourse Of A Divine Diva
Fashionably Employed
Life by Nadine Lynn
My Kitchen Escapades
nadia aboulhosn
Nine Thirty To Five
Taraustralis

International Unsubscribe

Why did I unsubscribe from 50 of the 60 international blogs?

I wrote a pretty decent post a long while ago with 14 reasons readers unsubscribe from your blog – and for this group, the reasons were as follows listed in no particular order –

Where Are You? You Went Quiet. You’re A Wanna-be. I’m not feeling it. Plus two new ones – Too Many Photos All The Time – You Only Provide A Partial Feed

Aussie Keepers –

All Cats are Grey At Night
Awesomely Unprepared
Boob In A Box
Budget Conscious Beauty Mumma
Central Station
Claire K Creations
Country Gypsies
FAUX FUSCHIA
Laughing Galah
Life At My Level
Life In Australia – Bob In Oz
MagnetoBoldToo!
Mamma’s Vida
Middle Aged Mama
See You In A Porridge
Stuff From The Suburbs
Surviving Oz
The Annoyed Thyroid
The Life Of Clare
Tune Into Radio Carly

Australian Unsubscribe

Why did I unsubscribe from 39 of the 59 Aussie blogs? As above – the reasons were as follows listed in no particular order –

Where Are You? You Went Quiet. You’re A Wanna-be. I’m not feeling it. Plus four new ones –

You wrote a post I strongly disagreed with – You spelled my name incorrectly, more than once! – I left you a comment but you did not publish it – You only provide a partial feed.

Is your blog not listed here but you would like it to be? Email Snoskred via the contact page and Snoskred will add your blog to her feed reader. :)

See previous new feeds for January & December – November – October – September – August – July –

New Feeds

Irritatory & Quick Update

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School

This week I went to orientation for the course I am starting next week..

Deities, pretty please, I beg you, give me patience and strength, or else I will not make it through this course without deading people.

Within moments of arriving at the orientation meeting point, there were 3 people who right away showed me exactly who they were, and they are not people I want to know or be involved with. Obviously they all knew each other, and they started right away talking about how little work they thought they could get away with doing, and how this course would be such a bludge festival for them, and what would be the earliest moment they could sneak away for a cigarette.

ROLL EYES NOW.

But it turns out, these three *are* special snowflakes who have done a previous course with this teacher, and a lot of the work they did for their previous course will be accepted for this course, so my earnest hope is that they are rarely in our presence. Please let this be so!

Within moments of sitting down for our orientation, these three were chit chatting amongst themselves, totally ignoring the teacher and the rest of us. It did not take long for them to earn my death stare, nor the death stare of the other *adults* who will be taking this class and who actually wanted to hear what the teacher had to say without the distraction of their special snowflake conversations..

The teacher actually sent them away halfway through the orientation saying they did not need to stay and immediately the atmosphere improved. I found quite a few people I felt drawn to and will like to know more about. That is a good sign for me.

Anyway, we’ll have to see how the special snowflake situation goes. Fingers crossed they will disappear into the bludgeosphere, leaving the rest of us to work together, because I found them extremely irritatory – that is one of my special made up words. It feels exactly how it sounds.

Yes, I know, I am meant to tolerate, etc, yada yada, blah blah, whatevs. But I actually want to do this course and enjoy the work involved with it and anyone who is not there to do exactly that should get the heck out of my way, STAT!

Blog Theme Update

I still had a couple of things I want to fix around here, most important being the ability for people to subscribe to comments which seemed to have vanished with the theme upgrade – You should now see checkboxes and the options Notify me of new comments via email & Notify me of new posts via email at the very bottom of the comment box.

Sadly to get that back, we’ve had to lose my gorgeous blue comment box. It turns out WordPress Jetpack now pulls the comment box from wordpress.com and we have zero control over the CSS, apparently, so we couldn’t get the notify me stuff to be in white.

With that said, if you comment a lot on wordpress blogs you probably want to get yourself a wordpress.com or gravatar account because that gives you notifications when someone replies to your comment automatically. It is free to make an account, and it means you won’t have to type all the stuff into the box each time you comment. :)

Blogging Update

Over here at Life In The Country I have scheduled posts for Mon-Wed-Fri up till the end of February. I’m hoping to have scheduled posts set up till the end of March by the end of this week because once I start school I am not sure how much time I’ll have.

If you see something on Tues-Thur-Sat-Sun – you know those posts are add ins – generally I try not to do that and instead push out a scheduled post, which I have done with this post.

I’ve decided for now not to return Shoe Sunday or start a new blogging series as my plate may be pretty full these first 6 months. A huge thank you to those who did participate in Shoe Sunday and maybe June will see it return.

Rewatch Breaking Bad

The Rewatch Breaking Bad blog is nearly at the end of season 3 – just two more episodes – then it swings into season 4 which was by far my favourite season on the show, closely followed by the almost perfect season 5.

If you have never seen the show I do highly recommend it for a lot of reasons, in particular the amazing performances of Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul.

I have cut back the posting schedule to once a week on Sundays. I already have 8 pre-written and scheduled posts over there and by the end of this week I’d like to make that 12 or even 16 which would nearly take me up to the end of the course. Those posts are a fair bit of work, involving taking screenshots for each episode – those posts take time and effort I might not be able to spare as often while I’m at school.

There is more but I am going to warn you – it talks about spiders – there are no images, I would never do that to you – and if you don’t want to *read* about spiders either, please don’t click through. I won’t inflict them on you as a surprise. My arachnophobia is presently at an all time high, with good reason.

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blog housekeeping, garden, Shoe Linkup, spider

New Feeds December & January

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I took a sneaky month off from posting my new feeds, but this month we are back, baby!!

New blogs to the feed reader since 30 November –

Amarachi Ukachu
And Then We Laughed
Balancing Meanderings
betweenthewires
Champagne and Chips
Cozy Cape Cottage
Engrish.com
Expat Eye On Germany
Goodnight, Cheese
her moon – her stars
Hollywood Housewife
Hotly Spiced
I Try:The Additive Property of Happiness
Just a Northern Girl
kelly’s kinda crazy
Linda’s wildlife garden
Medal Slut
Miscriant
Natalie Patalie
Not Entirely Perfect
Running My Butt Off
silverbells steps out
Stress and Stars
Suburban Tomato
The Art of Simple
The Artisan Life
this ain’t livin’
Uncle Spike’s Adventures
What I Weigh Today
Wildchild Chronicles
Willinga Wino
Zandria.us
~RAMBLING WOODS~

Welcome to my feedreader, bloggers.

There are 34 of you. In my internet travels I found my way to your blog, often because I read a blogger who linked to you. I liked your blog a lot. While there, I probably read back about 40+ posts or so. Then I added you to my feedreader.

Most of you will know what a feedreader is, but in case you do not, click here for info. The quick run down – it is an awesome program which collects new articles that bloggers post. So when you post something new, I get a copy, and if I have the time and something to say, I will click through and comment. If you want to get a feed reader, I highly recommend Inoreader, which I have been using a lot lately.

At the end of 6 months or so, if I am still loving your blog as much as I did when I added you to my feed reader, I will add you to my permanent blogroll. YAY!

And it has now been six months since July, so this month I have gone through that process and the blogs which I am keeping are these –

Adventures in HEL
Alison Asher
And I Get Dressed
Drifting through life
My Vintage Childhood

These blogs have all been added to my permanent blogroll. Welcome aboard!

So why did I unsubscribe from 18 of the 23 blogs? I wrote a pretty decent post a long while ago with 14 reasons readers unsubscribe from your blog – and for this group, the reasons were as follows listed in no particular order –

Where Are You? – You Went Quiet – You’re A Wanna-be – I’m not feeling it – Your Content Was Negative – and four new reasons – you made your blog private – you deleted your blog – you only provide a partial feed – you wrote something I totally disagreed with and it annoyed me so much I hit unsubscribe.

See previous new reads for November – October – September – August – July –

Plus view my Blogroll here!

New Feeds