I have been blogging for a very short time, only five months, and I have spoken before about the brilliant community that it has opened up to me.

In the last five months through my blog and through Twitter I have connected with a lot of people that I am extremely glad to have ‘met’. The support, encouragement, ideas, chats and laughs are all things that I never, ever expected to gain from just posting my thoughts and feelings every now and again.

But, where there is good, there is often a nice big pile of bad waiting just around the corner. And the bad has reared it’s ugly (and frankly judgemental) head. Continue reading →