Well I’m sure you’ve all been fascinated with my “other” cybermummy post which is here for those of you who missed my talk.

But I thought I’d better write a post of what I gained from the day :)

  1. I learnt that after spending the last 18 months in the company of babies my ability for public speaking has vanished and for those who did attend my session I can only apologise if it was complete waffle. But hopefully my post on the subject will more than make up for it. I also realise that I said “in the eyes of HMRC” rather a lot, if anyone kept count could you please let me know how many times I said it! :)

    Me doing my session - note the barefeet as I forgot to put shoes back on

  2. I was lucky to meet Sarah Brown and her talk was very inspirational and it was lovely to meet her afterwards and get my book signed by her. My husband teaches politics and he is proudly telling everyone that his wife has spoke at the same conference as Sarah Brown lol. I imagine our signed book will be proudly shown to all his future politics classes.

    Mrs Brown & Mrs Brown

  3. I learnt that I really can’t function without a constant supply of caffeine. When at home I must drink about 100 cups of tea a day and I found the caffeine restrictions at Cybermummy quite a challenge! It would have been lovely to have been able to get tea and coffee inbetween the specified coffee breaks.
  4. I met some wonderful people, some who I already follow and some who have never crossed my radar before. The conversations we had were hysterical and it was lovely to put faces to names at last. My blogroll will be growing considerably after this (though it will take me a few weeks to go through all the business cards and remember everyone)
  5. Whereas some people look exactly like their avatars, a lot of people were very hard to recognise and I was constantly grabbing peoples lanyards to see who they were. After the first hour I lost all embarrassment about doing this and so if you were approached by the tall blonde who grabbed your badge and said “so who are you?” then it was probably me :)
  6. A few bloggers seem to believe in their own self importance and if you blog is not ranked in the top 10 then you aren’t worth speaking too! I’m not naming names but there were some who I thought came across as very nice on twitter and their blogs but I was sadly disappointed in real life.
  7. I learnt that I’m not actually that bothered about not being a “top 100″ blog, you see it became apparent that a lot of people know me and read my blog. At the end of the day what really matters is that I enjoy blogging and sharing my life with people. Yes I love reviewing items and I will accept the occasional advertisement but being at Cybermummy reinforced by views that I will always carefully consider what items I review and what advertisements I accept and that sponsored posts just aren’t what my readers want to see. In reality I have turned down more PR requests than I have accepted this month because I don’t want my blog to be too cluttered and irrelevant to my readers. Basically I’m not going to sell my soul in order to get products (though I will consider selling my baby in exchange for a LeapPad (see below) ;) )
  8. That despite all the goody bags, somebody should really have chucked some tissues in one of them or at least placed a box of tissues on each table as they were definitely required for the key note sessions.
  9. I discovered that some of the PR people really should get a personality transplant! However others were lovely and I’d liked to have spent more time chatting to them instead of rushing around getting a passport signed.
  10. My favourite product of the day (and no I’ve not been paid to say this) was definitely the Leapfrog LeapPad. I can’t wait for them to be launched as I’m desperate to get my hands on one for Zara! I know the age range is age 4-9 but I figure if my 18 month old is capable of using my Iphone she can certainly handle a LeapPad :) So if any PRs from Leapfrog happen to be reading this then pretty pretty please can I review one for you ;)
  11. I loved having a chance to get my hair and makeup done in the P&G recharge room. Having 2 kids under 18 months I seldom get time to sit down and be pampered so it was a real pleasure.It was also lovely to get my toesnails done and get a lovely pair of crocs to wear

    Mrs Glam


    Toes and Crocs

  12. I really should have kidnapped Sian To and stolen one of the Hyundai cars and zoomed up the M1 to York to gatecrash the Morrissey gig :)
  13. Cybermummy missed a trick, they should have got a luggage sponsor to provide us with huge pink holdalls on wheels for us all to take our goodies home in!

    Mummy Loves and Our Goodies

I could go on forever but I will leave it at that for now :) Overall I had a wonderful weekend in London with my sister Mummy Loves and I will definitely be queuing up to buy tickets for Cybermummy12!

Lastly a HUGE thank you to my wonderful sponsor