It’s been a little while while since we published one of these weekend round up posts but since I had a few moments to spare and the inclination, I thought now was as good a time as ever. As per my announcement that I’d be cutting back the publishing schedule a little, we’ve only had…
Category Archives: General
Saturday Smoothy: Cake and cards. Would you like to share?
Just a week after introducing our new Saturday Smoothy round up of the week and I’m tweaking things My little boy is three today and given that we’ve been opening presents since 7am, have family coming round later and a cake still to be baked, I’m postponing the round up until tomorrow. What are Sunday…
Saturday Smoothy: Lessons for children, learning to love life and the day I learned to really appreciate my friends
Welcome to our first ever Saturday Smoothy, an opportunity to reflect on the week and remember some of the highlights you may have missed. As is often the case when you learn a valuable lesson, it’s been a memorable week. If nothing else, I’ve learned this week just how much support and encouragement there is…
1 Minute Motivator: Finding your friends in the rubbish dump
“A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” – Len Wein Why? We talk a lot about love and relationships here at Give A Brick, using both words in the widest possible sense. Having thought a lot about friendship this week, I went searching for a beautiful friendship…
Thoughtful Thursday: The day I learned to really appreciate my friends
Yes, this was an April Fool’s Day joke mistake Sorry guys. I’ve left the post up below in it’s original form. If nothing else, it serves as a reminder of just how fabulous this community is. Thank you so much for all your support. As I’ve said elsewhere, I promise to never again allow my…
I hate surprises, what about you?
Ever since we introduced the popular new structure to our daily one minute motivators, it’s been nagging at me a little that maybe our other posts could benefit from some organisation. I love alliteration so having allowed my grey cells to chew over thoughts for the best part of a day, here’s what I’ve come…
From acts of random kindness to taking over the world, it must be our Winter round-up 2010
With today being the last day of Winter (Happy Birthday Joe! ) it felt like as good a time as ever to do a short show case of some of our favourite posts here on Give A Brick. It’s been an exciting couple of months and as I look back over the 138 posts (complete…
Back tomorrow
For the first time in the two months since we started blogging here consistently, Give A Brick will not be publishing new content today (aside from this short explanation ) I met with an ITV Wales journalist yesterday afternoon and told her about Give A Brick helping with the campaign for legislation to control the…
Can you have too much of a good thing?
I need your help today. I love writing, I really do. I especially love it when the snippet of an idea finds it’s way between my ears and I get the opportunity to mull it over and watch it develop. Today however an idea of an unknown variety has come to the fore and I…
#FollowFriday “The Sunshine Awards”
Ryan over at Writer’s Addict gave us an award this week. He called it ‘The Sunshine Award’. The name alone was enough to make me smile 
So in the spirit of community, we are of course joining in