My Blog
Writing, business, family life, Milton Keynes - there's all sorts on here!
Three Things You Can Outsource to Me – did you know about them?
There’s so much stuff to do when you run your own business, and some of it takes more time than you anticipated when you started. You love what you do, and you want to get on with doing it - and sometimes the boring stuff can often get pushed to the bottom of the...
Having the Jab – my Astra Zeneca (1) experience
I confess I was astonished that they’d got to my age group already, but our NHS have worked miracles with this vaccine programme. They announced 42s and over on the Tuesday, and we were booked in for our first Astra Zeneca experience by the Friday morning. With a bank...
My Fantasy Dinner Party Guest List
William Shakespeare died on this very day in 1616, 505 years ago – and because his baptism record states 26 April, many have assumed that 23 April could have been the day he was born, too. And this suits those with a patriotic bent as well, because it’s also St...
Goodbye, Suze St Maur – my friend and mentor
It was March 2018, and I had been in business as a self-employed copywriter for all of two months when I attended my first ever networking meeting, in Sam Poole's SJPoole Network. I’m not a natural extrovert, and that, combined with a lack of confidence and a good...
Brilliant Out of Office Messages – Part 2
Easter Bank Holidays! Love them – two days either side of a weekend when we have official permission to shelve work if we want to. If you are taking some time off, you may be putting a brilliant Out of Office message on your email. The question is - what will you put...
My Three Positive Things from Coronavirus
This week marked a year since the official start of the UK’s lockdown, when we and whole swathes of the human population around the world were asked to stay in our homes. It would have been a totally unbelievable concept, just a few short months before – everyone,...
My Story
I’ve been talking a lot recently about the importance of telling your story – where you came from, how you got here, and why you do what you do – and here is mine.I was born in rural North Yorkshire, which is sometimes surprising to people, as I don’t really carry an...
Three Things I can do because of Homeschool
It’s been a journey, but after eight whole weeks of helping my children to learn at home, I’ve come away with a few new skills myself. In summary, they can be described as: Mulitasking is hard and I'm still not sure I can do it Snacks are king and can be used to get...
