Today I’ve been distracted by conversations with the youngest about uni open days, wondering if I can eek out another week or so of my fringe getting in my eyes before I have it cut and reminders about my eye test tomorrow morning which reminds me I have the dentist...
This time last year Ilkley was covered in snow and I was coming out of my second conversation filled peak season on the shop floor of Oliver Bonas. I’d applied for a seasonal role the previous Christmas and it was due to last around six weeks but I ended up staying...
Relationships and people. That’s what it boils down to. The relationship I have with my clients and the relationship they have with their ‘audiences’, their clients or customers or stakeholders. Right now I’m working with small businesses and charities so rather than...
"You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, ‘This is me, this what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I’m doing the best I can – buy me or not – but this is who I am as a writer.” David...
Fiddling around with my homepage copy as I do from time to time, I deleted the word ‘thoughtful’ and put it back in - several times over. Why the hesitation? Because I know I’m thoughtful and I do like to have both feet firmly on the ground. I’m no high octane,...
I am a fully paid up member of the Squiggly Career club. I hadn’t realised that until I watched a webinar this morning with Helen Tupper of The Squiggly Career & Amazing If fame (www.amazingif.com). In just one-hour, she made sense of a work / life situation I...
