A Day In The Life

by | Apr 27, 2019 | 0 comments

A valuable lesson for kids that I picked up a few years ago: Every job includes at least one element that you might not enjoy. Even footballers, musicians and DJs, who apparently have the world’s best jobs, have to commit to things that they’d rather not...

Ain’t No Stopping Us Now

by | Apr 26, 2019 | 0 comments

I tried a bit of yoga today for the first time – and I managed to both stay upright and turn my phone to silent before the session, meaning I avoided the horrendous scenario of hearing the theme to Terry & June (my ringtone) blasting out of my phone just as...

The Lemon Song

by | Apr 25, 2019 | 0 comments

After 13 years of working, studying, trying and failing online, you’d think I’d have learned my lesson. I tried with Naughty by Nature, a novel that didn’t make it past the first draft despite me lining up a formatting person in the States, having a...

Patience

by | Apr 24, 2019 | 0 comments

A simple lesson I’ve learned over the years is that things tend to take much longer than you think. Whether it’s putting a quote together when pricing up a project for a new client, learning how to use a new piece of software, or – dare I say it...

Sad But True

by | Apr 23, 2019 | 0 comments

Sadly, some companies want to rip us off and then hide. Sometimes they hide behind anonymity, but there are two places where we can try to uncover a bit about companies online who want to avoid our awkward questions: A whois lookup website, to try to identify the...