There’s no business like snow business! Wow! I think I can safely say that on Monday morning I experienced what was probably one of the best starts to my working week – EVER! I was certainly not thinking that as the alarm went off at 6:10am though, whilst I was snuggled up under my duvet. [...]
It was only a kiss … Well, it was nearly a kiss, and that was the issue. I’ll set the scene. It was a Friday evening and Gareth, my partner, had set us both up for a turbo session on our road bikes. For the uninitiated, as I was 18 months ago, that means a [...]
Motorway Madness (Or white vans, motorways, and tears, aka the things you talk about when driving on the M1 on a long journey!) Let me start off with a nod to a fab weekend with my partner, Gareth, visiting one of my oldest friends, Diane (we’ve known each other since infant school and given that [...]
Letting myself feel bad – to make myself feel better I’m not going to mince my words here - I hate feeling cr*p and sh*tty! By that, I don’t mean that I’ve been unwell with a bad cold or struck down with an illness. It’s more a case of that dark gloom that can come [...]
It’s raining again – oh no, the sun is out, nope, it’s raining! I don’t know about you, but I do love living in good old Blighty, despite the bonkers weather. Maybe that’s one of the reasons I love it here – the ever-changing weather that keeps you on your toes. Take the colour green, [...]
Everyone loves cake … don’t they?! I, for one, love a slice of cake – nothing too rich and creamy though. I also love baking cakes, but rarely have the time to do so; I also tend to avoid baking them because it means I will eat them! And eating cake means calories that need to [...]
How a sliced loaf led to a lifelong friendship! Once upon a time, in the days before online competition took over, two women entered a Kingsmill bread competition. They both put their names and addresses on a postcard, stuck a stamp on it, and dropped their entries into their local letterboxes. Some weeks later, both [...]
Proud mum moment! My son, Fred, and I are very similar in many ways. We are both pretty strong-willed, although in more recent years, as he has moved from his teens into adulthood, he has attempted – without success, I hasten to add – to rule the roost! Despite my desire to encourage him find his [...]
Spooky stuff! Are you sitting comfortably? Do you want to hear a spooky story? I think you’ll enjoy this one! I have made networking a focus for 2021, and have recently joined a new networking group called Catena https://www.catena-business-network.com/catenateamnottingham. Part of their strategy is to make introductions within their network – very much like a [...]
First impressions count – they really do … You only have a matter of minutes, if not seconds, to make an impression. In fact, Serenity Gibbons, writing for www.Forbes.com, a couple of years ago stated, “Every entrepreneur knows that first impressions are important, but you may not know just how little time you have to [...]