📝Inform Us About…Running a blog. A Month-to-month World Problem Co-hosted by @gail_h #IAmABlogger #BookBlogger #GardenBlogger

Inform Us About…is a month-to-month international problem co-hosted by Gail from Is The Mutton. July’s subject is running a blog which is completely ‘my factor!’😁

After a number of makes an attempt at penning this submit, I really discovered it more durable than I believed🤔. Do I write about the most effective bits? The worst days? The times if you get numerous visitors? Or the posts that took ages to jot down and get disappointingly low views? Then there may be search engine optimization and all of the blah, blah, blah about monetising, adverts, paid posts and many others🙄Do I need to discuss all that? Nah! Let’s simply have some enjoyable!😆

Ahem! Boring bit first!😉 I’m Rosie and my weblog is primarily about books 📚 and I additionally submit about my backyard🌺. I began my guide weblog twelve years in the past. For the final ten years I’ve efficiently run a evaluate group alongside my very own studying listing. 

If you’re concerned with studying📖 we do our greatest to unfold the phrase about novels, novellas, quick tales and non-fiction from self-published authors and impartial publishers – to showcase expertise discovered outdoors the mainstream publishing world.

Shifting on, in the event you like gardening, crops and flowers🌼 I often participate within the #SixOnSaturday gardening meme. Plant lovers from world wide showcase six issues from their backyard usually in a weblog submit however there are various others who simply submit six pictures on Twitter /X to hitch the hashtag. Present weblog meme host Jim is an educated plantsman, however you don’t should know a lot about crops to hitch in. Right here’s considered one of my enjoyable backyard posts Homicide In The Backyard!

In addition to common guide critiques from myself and evaluate group members I additionally submit about #BooksWeLove and advocate with visitor posts from different guide lovers. For example Mairéad who blogs at Swirl And Thread shared her standard evaluate of Forgotten on Sunday by Valérie Perrin. I additionally take part with guide challenges and readathons and I’m at present studying my means via all 14 books within the youngsters’s basic The Fantastic Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum with the #Ozathon24 problem.

In addition to posting on Saturday’s about my backyard. Final 12 months I posted a sequence showcasing most of the gardens and the gardeners from world wide who often participate within the #SixOnSaturday meme. Right here’s a hyperlink to the primary submit from Fred who gardens in Normandy, France. Plus one other from Catherine who lives in Scotland.

At the beginning of 2024 I ran a brief gardening sequence that featured ideas for straightforward propagation of crops and chatted to fellow gardeners about a few of their favorite instruments. Sarah in Australia shared her tips about propagating Petunias. Whereas Arwen, who lives in Wales shared her fabulous tips about propagating roses.

Right here on the weblog I get pleasure from sharing two of my favorite subjects, books 📚and gardening🍃. I really like studying and have found some fabulous books over time. I’ve additionally made some sensible associates from world wide and have met up with a number of of them in individual. My very own gardening has developed and I’ve learnt a lot from folks prepared to share their writing and plant information.

Final autumn I ‘met’ Gail (Is This Mutton) who generously runs a weekly #WowOnWednesday link-up the place bloggers of style, decor, journey, cooking, gardening, studying, magnificence and journey can depart a hyperlink to their posts. I’ve found a number of new bloggers from Gail’s link-ups whose blogs I now comply with, it’s nicely value trying out. I’d wish to thank Gail for internet hosting this weblog submit problem right now and hope that you simply loved studying about simply a few of my running a blog story.🙋🏻‍♀️