Hello and welcome back to #KCACOLS. I hope you are all well! We had 46 link ups last time! THANK YOU ALL so much for being part of the linky! I really appreciate your support. For new people joining us this week, I really hope you like #KCACOLS and that you come back again next time! You can also find out more about this linky on the #KCACOLS linky page! 🙂
We went glamping to Warwick Castle a couple of weeks ago. We stayed at their Kin’s Luxury Tent at their Knight Village. It was a surreal experience. We spent 2 days exploring Warwick Castle and loved it. They have so much to do and we had so much fun. My girls ended up so exhausted!
I am also reviewing a new meal plan and fitness program called MuscleFood. I am trying their, ‘Do The Unthinkable’ programme for one month. So far it has taken time to understand how it works but now I feel used to their meals and fitness plan. I will be doing a weekly blog with my thoughts. I am looking forward to sharing with you my journey.
We also attended a cool event in Central London at the ICA with British Council and Aardman Animations (creators of Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Timmy Time) for the launch of their new English language series “Learning Time With Timmy. We watched an exclusive preview of the series, took some cool photos with Timmy, created our own clay Timmy with Aardman’s expert model maker Jim, met experts from the British Council and had a chat about how children learn languages. Best of all, we had some great cupcakes, LOL!
Each link up, I love sharing a couple of photos from my last 2 weeks on Instagram, so here are two of my favourites:
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#KCACOLS ON INSTAGRAM
Thank you so much for using the #KCACOLS hashtag on Instagram for all your photos. It is lovely to see your photos there! I am so excited that we have more than 10k photos that have used the hashtag! I am thrilled! I would love it if more of you could use the hashtag for your photos and of course it would be even better if we all also spread some love there! I am featuring 1 photo from the community that has caught my eye since the last link up. This time I’m featuring CLARE from Flip Flops or Wellies. See her photo below:
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KCACOLS CROWD FACEBOOK GROUP
THANK YOU to all of you that have joined the #KCACOLS CROWD Facebook Group. You can join us here. Also if you do join, please send me a direct message with the name of your blog so then I know who you are without having to figure out your blog name 🙂
NOTE: you can promote your posts and social channels there too because we host different threads to support each other so that is another reason to join us!
NOW BACK TO THE LINKY
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We had 46 link ups and about 12 posts needed more comments when the linky closed. By Saturday we reduced this number to 4. This is great! From these 4 posts, 3 have 3 comments and one has 2 comments. So this means that we got 42 posts with 4 or more comments this time which is good!
Regarding the people that have not commented on the post before theirs, we got 13 people on Thursday. By Saturday morning, we only reduced this number to 11! This is not very good. I am about to message them to let them know. Hopefully we will get more comments from them.
Also, remember to comment on the co-hosts posts. Please also be aware that I’m BLOCKING URLs/Emails of people that have joined the linky and have not commented on any posts for consecutive weeks. If you find I have blocked you by mistake, please contact me.
FORTNIGHTLY LINKY The linky will be open for 2 weeks until the second Wednesday at 8 pm or until we reach 100 link ups, whichever comes first. The co-hosts and I will be allowed to change our posts on the following Saturday after the linky is live. Please be aware of these changes during the second week. I would suggest that you link up one post each week so you will be able to share something different and current each week. I will also be more strict regarding commenting on the post before yours. |
LINKY TWEETS
I’m not tweeting individual people once the linky is live but I will tweet the people that have been featured and mentioned. I’ll also post a link to the new linky post on the KCACOLS Facebook Group, pin it on my Twitter account and on my Facebook page together with some generic tweets. I will of course, email all of you the link. If you could also share it by clicking the link below that would be FABULOUS!
PLEASE REMEMBER
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IMPORTANT NOTE FOR NEW LINKERS: PLEASE START by commenting on the post linked up before yours FIRST and then comment on any other posts as much as you would like. Also, use the hashtag #KCACOLS when commenting (this is indeed very important so I can then see how many comments you are doing and then be able to feature you in my linky post which is always great for you as you get a backlink which helps improve your DA). |
Thank you so much for all your comments on the host posts and the linky post. As always, I have read and liked all your comments! We will do our best for you to receive a comment from someone on behalf of the linky (either the co-hosts or me).
GUEST CO-HOSTS FROM THE PREVIOUS LINK UP
I would like to say THANK YOU so much to SARAH from Digital Motherhood and EMMA from Me and B Make Tea for helping me with the commenting this week! It was lovely co-hosting with them!
GUEST CO-HOSTS FOR THIS LINK UP
My first co-host this week is RUTH from Mummy and the Mexicans. Ruth has not co-hosted this linky before so it will be lovely to have her for this linkup! She lives in Mexico with her family. She has a bilingual parenting and lifestyle blog. She writes about her experiences of living and parenting in Mexico, being alone British expat in a Mexican family and trying to bring her daughter up to be bilingual. She also loves sharing posts about Mexican food. Please give some love to her social media accounts which are (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook & Pinterest). She will also be retweeting your tweets this week so please add her twitter handle (@ruthhilbrown to your tweets as well as mine. Finally, she has a guest co-host post, Expat, Nomad, Immigrant: Stories from Life Abroad – featuring Absolutely Prabulous linked up too. Please if you could go there and add a comment it would be AWESOME!
My second co-host this week is LAURA from Mummy Lauretta. This is the 2nd time that Laura is co-hosting this linky. It is lovely to have her back. She has a parenting blog. She has 2 identical twins with her Italian partner, Matteo. She started her blog to share her experiences as a mother of twins. I am really looking forward to co-hosting the linky with her again. Please give some love to her social media accounts which are (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook & Pinterest). She will also be retweeting your tweets this week so please add her twitter handle (@MummyLauretta) to your tweets as well as mine. Finally, she has a guest co-host post, Getting in the Mood for Summer with Lily Rose London – Pineapple Necklace Giveaway linked up too. Please if you could go there and add a comment it would be AWESOME!
FEATURED POSTS – TOP 3
The person who commented the most this week was CAROL from Virtually All Sorts. WOW! It is amazing! She has been featured and the top of the commenting for 7 weeks! This is a record! Hurrah! She has been so lovely commenting on so many posts. She has commented on 39 posts! FANTASTIC! Thank you so much, CAROL! Her post from last week was Why a classic heroine earns my respect. Please visit her post and give her more love if you can.
The second person who commented a lot was MADELINE from This Glorious Life. I am super happy to have Madeline back in the top 3 commenters! Yay! She has always been very kind with her commenting. She has commented on 22 posts! Thank you so much, MADELINE! Her post from last week was Letting go of the fear of being too happy. Please go to her post and give her more love if you can.
The third person who commented the most this week was BREAD from Queer Little Family. Yee! She is back in the top 3 commenters again! She is AMAZING! I am so grateful for her support. She has commented on 21 posts! Hurrah! One of her posts from last week was Pride Month On QLF. Please visit her post and give her more love if you can.
FEATURED POSTS – TOP 6
Behind Carol, Madeline and Bread were AMY from Family Edventures with 20 comments, TRACEY from One Frazzled Mum with 19 comments and SARAH from Mummykind with 18 comments. Thank you so much to all of you! 🙂
For this week’s linky I am linking up Regatta Outdoors – Something For The Whole Family and Petit Fernand Customised Lunchboxes Review so I hope you like them! 😉
Please do not forget to follow and check out the #KCACOLS Pinterest Board. We have pinned all your posts from last week’s linky so please go and have a look. There are some great posts that deserve a read!
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Now let’s carry on with the linky:
RULES:
Every 2 weeks I will choose 6 people who have commented A LOT on the linky. Three will be featured and another three will be mentioned in my fortnightly Saturday linky post. This means that 6 people will get a backlink on my new linky post every other Saturday!
1. Be sure to grab the #KCACOLS badge which can be found below or on my sidebar. Simply copy the code from the box below the badge and add it to the text/html at the bottom of your post or place it on your blog sidebar.
2. You can link up to 2 posts. I recommend you to link up one post each week to get the most of the linky.
3. You can share anything that you would like. It is open to absolutely any subject and also you can link up posts that are old or new. You are allowed to link up another linky ONLY if it is a promotional post about the linky and you can do this only once and I expect you to put my badge or a link to my linky and of course to follow the rules regarding commenting.
4. Comment on:
- one of the hosts’ posts (choose one that you would like to comment).
- the guest co-hosts posts.
- the post which is linked up immediately before yours.
- and finally, any other post that you would like to comment on.
That way everybody receives at least two comments (one from the host/guest co-hosts and one from others).
5. This linky will be open every other Saturday from 10 pm and will remain open until the following 2nd Wednesday at 08.00 pm or until we reach 100 link ups, whichever comes first.
6. If you would like us to tweet your post that is absolutely fine, just tweet your link to me @WithFranca, RUTH @ruthhilbrown and LAURA @MummyLauretta and we will retweet it. Please remember to use the hashtag #KCACOLS.
7. Finally, if you could please follow A Moment With Franca (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Bloglovin, Google+ and YouTube) that would be fantastic!! 😉
I look forward to reading and commenting your posts!! 🙂
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Thanks for stopping by,
Love you all ❤
Franca 💋
Ann fr Rainbows are too beautiful says
Thanks as always for hosting Franca! Xx
amomentwithfranca says
Thank you, Ann! It is so lovely to see you back! 🙂 x