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		<title>What will it take to move diary of a black girl up a level?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DianeCorriette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For any blog to be success it takes a little bit of sweat and tears. Of course you are blogging about something you love (hopefully) so it won&#8217;t seem like work.
To pick up the diary so that it has an audience that is reading our stuff on a daily basis we need to blog 3 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For any blog to be success it takes a little bit of sweat and tears. Of course you are blogging about something you love (hopefully) so it won&#8217;t seem like work.</p>
<p>To pick up the diary so that it has an audience that is reading our stuff on a daily basis we need to blog 3 times a day, every day, for the next 12 months &#8211; no easy challenge; especially as I have 13 other blogs I already write in!</p>
<p>So Lauretta&#8230;. you ready or what? <img src='http://www.diaryofablackgirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>A little plug for work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DianeCorriette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My freelance work online includes being Membership Manager  at Blog Success  &#8211; helping people develop and run successful blogs. So if any of the diary readers would like to run their own blog and develop an income doing it check out some great videos on a method called 10 10 30 -
10 blogs, 10 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My freelance work online includes being Membership Manager  at<a href="http://www.blogsuccess.com/diane" target="_blank"><strong> Blog Success </strong></a> &#8211; helping people develop and run successful blogs. So if any of the diary readers would like to run their own blog and develop an income doing it check out some great videos on a method called 10 10 30 -</p>
<p><strong>10 blogs, 10 niches, $30 a day &#8211; bringing in an income of $9k a month.</strong></p>
<p>It will take a while to get them up to that level but like I always say &#8211; time is going to keep moving anyway so why not spend it developing something that could make a difference in your life.</p>
<p>So thats the commerical plug from me . Find out more at <a href="http://www.blogsuccess.com/diane" target="_blank">http://www.blogsuccess.com/diane</a></p>
<p>We need more successful black bloggers!</p>
<p>I have loads of free information about how to set one up but you still need to learn the tricks/techniques to make it successful.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.makemoneyblogging.tv/how-to-start-a-blog/" target="_blank"><strong>You can find a page on how to start a blog here</strong></a></p>
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		<title>You know you are A British Born West Indian when&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DianeCorriette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those whose parents or grandparents are from the West Indies or who can relate…Lawwwwwd ah Mercy! It’s about time
You know your BBW….
When you call Cornish Pastie – Cornish PATTIE
If you remember going to family parties where the base from the speakers would lick you a new heartbeat.
Your scrambled eggs are black (pepper overload!!!)
Bayrum &#038; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those whose parents or grandparents are from the West Indies or who can relate…Lawwwwwd ah Mercy! It’s about time</p>
<p>You know your BBW….</p>
<p>When you call Cornish Pastie – Cornish PATTIE</p>
<p>If you remember going to family parties where the base from the speakers would lick you a new heartbeat.</p>
<p>Your scrambled eggs are black (pepper overload!!!)</p>
<p>Bayrum &#038; Hot Ribena are considered cure for the common cold</p>
<p>As a child, going to church &#8211; WAS NOT AN OPTION</p>
<p>You drink tea with Carnation milk!<br />
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You remember the tune “Silly Games”</p>
<p>When you know all the words to the song “My Boy Lollipop”</p>
<p>You know how to bogle</p>
<p>You know the first line of the song ‘ Ting-a-ling’ but dats it!</p>
<p>You live or have some family connection with Harlesden or Brixton</p>
<p>Your hearing quality is 20% impaired below average because of music at family parties.</p>
<p>When you wear “panty” under your swimsuit</p>
<p>You point with your lips</p>
<p>You nod your head upwards to greet someone</p>
<p>You hate to throw away empty containers</p>
<p>You’ve eaten ackee &#038; saltfish for breakfast</p>
<p>You knew about PRIMARK waay before its recent MAINSTREAM popularity</p>
<p>You chew the ice when you finish your drinks</p>
<p>At Christmas you have to have “black cake”</p>
<p>You can kiss your teeth (stupes) for more than 3 seconds……</p>
<p>You bring home food from a party (enough for your breakfast the next morning, your lunch and your dinner!)</p>
<p>You got asked, (when you were crying after having been told off) whether you wanted so mething to cry for?</p>
<p>You know you’re BBW when your acting bad and your mum gives you THAT look!!!</p>
<p>You know your BBW when you got 3 different string vest, and you always wear 1 under your t-shirt</p>
<p>When “kiss mi neck” implies surprise as opposed to a request for affection</p>
<p>When it’s bad manners not to acknowledge your elders in the street</p>
<p>You know you are definitely a BBW if you have threatened to call CHILDLINE (after you or someone else in your house got beat)</p>
<p>You meet a new “Auntie” at every christening</p>
<p>You attend at least 3 Christenings a year</p>
<p>You DON’T attend the wedding but you DO attend the wedding party…late!!!!</p>
<p>You get served food at weddings by three fat black women</p>
<p>Your gran makes you watch “Songs of Praise”</p>
<p>Your gran makes you write her letters to “Back Home”</p>
<p>You don’t actually like Ackee and Saltfish</p>
<p>You like Yam but no one who is not black know what it is…</p>
<p>Your cot rattled to the bass!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Your sister had a baad weave at least once in her life</p>
<p>You were never allowed into the the “front room” with the glass cabinet, doilies, Alsation statuette, white cat and blue marble fish figurine!!!!</p>
<p>If your mum of gran washed out old “vitalite” and “ice cream” tubs and use them as “tuppa wear”</p>
<p>If your=2 0cupboard always has a bottle of Sasparilla</p>
<p>If all your mums friends are aunties and all their children are your cousins</p>
<p>If your mum makes you keep your old clothes to wear as “house clothes”</p>
<p>If you understand that the word “egg” contains an H but the word “teeth” doesn’t</p>
<p>If someone told you they have something to tell you and then bit up your ear!!!</p>
<p>If you have been cuffed up in public</p>
<p>If you had your hair (aka head) straightened (aka burned) with an iron comb when you were younger!!!!</p>
<p>When plain rice is no substitution for rice and peas on a Sunday</p>
<p>The thought of “bringing shame on your family” is more fearful than death</p>
<p>Jonny Cakes aka Fried Dumplins are a common feature of your diet…</p>
<p>You have never left the house without creaming your face first – if you ever did, you remember that day vividly………</p>
<p>When you fear your parents more than you feared the police or any schoolteacher</p>
<p>When at parties all the children were sent to another room while “big people” were doing “big people tings” like…..drinking, smoking, playing dominoes and playing Gregory Isscas….</p>
<p>When your mum never let you eat on the road or from people houses – cos then they’ll think that she don’t feed you!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>When times were hard it was about corned beef and rice or20sardine and rice (hense why its called “poor mans” food)…..</p>
<p>When you get home late your parents first words were “so you know where you live then”………..</p>
<p>You were never allowed to sleep at a friends house!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>The words “my friend has one” the answer would be “go and live with your friend”</p>
<p>At christenings, weddings &#038; funerals you NEVER have to pay for your drinks!!!!!!!!! You rent a hall, someone from your family is on the makeshift bar serving FREE drinks, NICE HOT FOOD – not just sandwiches, sausage rolls and the grapefruit (hedgehog) with the pineapple/cheese and cherries on them……………..</p>
<p>Going to Sunday School – having to wear a dress!!!!! coming home having… a to change then help clean the house whilst mum was cooking – playing some old school reggae tunes on the record player!!!!!!</p>
<p>Then during cleaning you would have to run to the shops to buy either, an onion, thyme or coconut milk because it had run out – and you know that the rice and peas ain’t the same without them….</p>
<p>Or having to get some black pepper or seasoning from the “Indian man shop”……as mum used to say….</p>
<p>Your mum had a special occasion glass cabinet…….which NEVER got used!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>The one that wasn&#8217;t on here that I added was&#8230;..</p>
<p>When you call a face flannel a wash rag!</p>
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		<title>Blogging</title>
		<link>http://www.diaryofablackgirl.com/2009/blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DianeCorriette</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs & Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diary of a black girl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what is a blog]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love blogs &#8211; reading them, writing in them, commenting on them  
Which is why I work with them online. It takes a little bit of a routine to get into the habit but once you have it can become addictive.
It&#8217;s my job to enlighten you as to the wonders of blogging  &#8211; which [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love blogs &#8211; reading them, writing in them, commenting on them <img src='http://www.diaryofablackgirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Which is why I work with them online. It takes a little bit of a routine to get into the habit but once you have it can become addictive.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s my job to enlighten you as to the wonders of blogging  &#8211; which I haven&#8217;t been doing that so I thought I would.</p>
<p>Firstly, I will say get training. http://www.2diane.com</p>
<p>Nothing beats knowing what to do! <img src='http://www.diaryofablackgirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Then I will say read this special report I have put together called &#8220;What Is A Blog&#8221;</p>
<p>Then everything I say here will make perfect sense to you.</p>
<p>Dee</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" title="what is a blog" src="http://www.blogpodcast.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/200wiabcover.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="268" /></p>
<p><strong>Free online business building eGuide : What Is A Blog</strong></p>
<p>The outcome of this online business building eGuide is to provide you with:<br />
Knowledge:<br />
•    Outline different areas of a blog<br />
•    Identify the key elements needed to succeed online with blogging<br />
•    Explain the benefits of developing your own blog</p>
<p>Skill<br />
•    Identify the 7 mistakes that people new to blogging make<br />
•    Understand how to avoid those 7 mistakes<br />
•    Create 3 short-term goals to continue moving forward</p>
<p>Attitude<br />
•    Explain what it takes to be a blogger<br />
•    Identify whether running a blog is a viable option for you<br />
Download your copy here :  <a href="http://www.blogpodcast.net/whatisblog.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.blogpodcast.net/whatisblog.pdf </a></p>
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