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  • From the Wire blog 2: Price Setting

    Here’s the second blog I featured in on Carrie Eddins WIRE blog: Help for women in business.. It’s the start of the term, for many, and often the renewal of a business idea , and indeed start of a business for others in the lead up to Christmas. For me, I am about to launch…

  • What Did You Do Right Today?

    If I asked you at the end of the day what you did wrong, or what you ‘should’ have done that you didn’t do, how many answers would you have for me? (just a rough guess, you don’t need to count exactly!) My guess is that you could think of 10-20 things quite easily. Now,…

  • Guest on WIRE: Women and Social Media

    Over the past couple of weeks, I have featured in a couple of blog posts on the WIRE (Women in Rural Enterprise) blog, courtesy of the lovely Carrie Eddins of theblondemarketinggoddess.com. Carrie’s blog on WIRE is helping women market successfully to other women, and she asked for my thoughts on using social media for a…

  • The Ebbing Tide Wants to Flow

    Can you imagine if the Tide decided that it didn’t want to ebb, it wanted to keep on flowing? Imagine the effort, the strain, the pressure, the struggle. Imagine the force of energy that would be required to stop the tide from ebbing. I’m guessing that it would be a losing battle. Eventually the tide…

  • Rah Rah Rah!

    Ever been of the opinion that enthusiastic people are quite irritating? You know, the sort who are always up and peppy – the jumpiest jumping bean of them all! I have made a startling and quite entertaining discovery over the past few years – it’s not so irritating when it is you that is the…

  • What’s Wrong With Me

    Why is it that the first place we go to when we’re upset, angry or ill is ‘what’s wrong with me’. I’ve had a few conversations over the bank holiday which went to the ‘wrong with me’ place. My friend was upset – ‘what’s wrong with me?’ You’re upset! There’s nothing ‘wrong’. I was angry…

  • More Fun to Life

    Do you ever wake up in the morning and think “There must be more to life than this”? Back in the 90’s, I woke up almost every day with that thought. I wondered if this was ‘it’, if this was how life was going to work out – a seemingly endless slog of get up,…

  • Fall Down 100 Times, Get Up 101

    Thank you so much for your response to my newsletter article last week – I was so pleased to have encouraged and inspired you to Give Blood (or to hassle your friends and family to do so! I’m not fussy, as long as someone gives.) I actually got a lovely letter from the Blood Donation…

  • How Quick Are You Gonna Get Up?

    I was just listening to ‘Ali in the Jungle’ by The Hours – here’s a snippet of the lyrics: Everybody gets knocked down, How quick are you gonna’ get up? At the end of last week I had quite a significant knock down – one that left me feeling totally squooshed (like Thomas out of…

  • Do Something Amazing

    Well, I am feeling quite sad and disappointed today. I found out that while I am under the care of my neurologist, I can’t give blood. If you don’t donate blood, you might believe that is a good thing – but if you do donate, you will understand why I’m upset. I have to admit,…