New Page!
I’m delighted to have added the new page on homeworkers’ rooms, as promised a few days ago – just click on Homeworkers’ Rooms on the green menu bar above. Many thanks to the people who have started the page by sending me their photos and descriptions.
I hope you find them interesting and will send in your own so that the collection comes to reflect the amazing breadth and brilliance of homeworkers! I’m sure I can’t be the only one who is fascinated to know how and where other people work. I aim to add one every few days so come back soon to find out who has a sea view when they’re working…
Favourite home worker things No 6
July 29, 2010 - 8:48 am
Tags: home offices, work/life balance
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Charlotte Baker of OutThereHQ is ‘building a community and place in Winchester that has a café’s buzz and is full of people working on interesting projects.’ Which means lots of freelancers and self-employed people, I imagine! Charlotte is also going to be starting Jelly there in the autumn. She is obviously fuelled by tea and [...]
Favourite home worker things No 5
July 28, 2010 - 9:08 am
Tags: home offices, work/life balance
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Chrissie Slade creates skincare solutions for pampered guinea pigs and nominates this box as her favourite home working item: ‘Here is one of my inspiration boxes Some people collect shoes, I collect Essential Oils and use them every day as part of my “job” creating skincare products for guinea pigs. Working with nice aromas every [...]
Favourite home worker things No 4
July 23, 2010 - 5:50 pm
Tags: home offices, work/life balance
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Emma Windsor is a virtual PA and sent me a picture of her garden as well, but for some reason I can’t make it come out the right way up, so I’ll just show you her cute feline friend for now. ‘If the weather is good I like to go out and sit and be [...]
Favourite home worker things No 3
July 23, 2010 - 5:34 pm
Tags: home offices, work/life balance
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Elizabeth Druce is busy organising Chiltern Jelly, which is good news for home workers and freelancers working in the Beds/Bucks/Herts borders area. ‘I couldn’t resist sending you this picture of my little home worker helper. He sits on my desk, in just the right spot for me to easily glance toward his quizzical little face [...]
Favourite home worker things No 2
July 22, 2010 - 4:12 pm
Tags: home offices, work/life balance
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Best to click on the photo for a larger view of this. Tim Osmond has taken its words to heart and says only, ‘It’s an old Government poster from the 60′s by Reginald Mount – I have more, my walls are a bit stern…’ Tim’s wife writes a blog about vintage posters, Quad Royal, which [...]
Favourite home worker things No 1
July 21, 2010 - 7:02 pm
Tags: home offices, work/life balance
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There’s been a great response to my previous post about the little things that lighten a home worker’s load, so I’m starting to publish them sooner than expected. The first to arrive was from Paul Graves, @cyteen02, who says: ‘Here’s one of my favourite home worker things. This is a picture of the outside of [...]
Home workers’ helpers
July 19, 2010 - 3:46 pm
Tags: home offices
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I’m fascinated by the places other home workers work, and I bet you are too, but whenever I ask for a photo of their workspace to put on the home office page of the site, they always reply ‘Not till I’ve tidied up’. Which never seems to happen because we’ve all got more pressing things [...]
Inconspicuous nonconsumption
June 28, 2010 - 12:46 pm
Tags: clothes, collaboration, home offices
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20th century success was a highly visible, material affair, consisting of houses, cars, yachts, clothes, jewellery etc. We are now coming to terms with the finite resources left on the planet we have so efficiently depleted, and have to learn to consume less in a more efficient manner. 21st century success is going to be [...]
A moving experience
June 27, 2010 - 10:21 pm
Tags: Enterprise Nation, home offices
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Moving house is supposed to be up there amongst the most stressful events of a lifetime, and if you run a business from home, there’s even more to consider. We’ve moved our home and two businesses several times in recent years and so I’ve distilled my experiences into a short guide ‘How to move house [...]
News, news!
June 2, 2010 - 10:39 am
Tags: home offices, work/life balance
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Those of you who are self-employed will know that there are many milestones when you’re working for yourself – collecting your new business cards, your first meeting, the first client, first invoice (whoo hoo). I’ve just achieved a milestone by sending out my first newsletter. (And you can sign up by clicking on the little [...]




March 19, 2009 - 10:04 pm
I read Engleby by Sebastian Faulks at Christmas. I found it compelling. It’s nothing like Faulks’ other novels, which I’ve also enjoyed, but this is just such a strange and intimate diary format where I was completely involved with the narrator. I also love love love Patricia Highsmith’s books..
After enjoying the film of The Talented Mr Ripley and enjoying it, I went on to read ALL her books, They are VERY weird but wonderful. I’m reading The Tenderness of Wolves at the moment, it’s really slow, but very well-written.
March 20, 2009 - 5:36 pm
My favourite Sebastian Faulks novel is On Green Dolphin Street. I find something quite chilling about his other writing, and I couldn’t get into Engleby, but maybe it wasn’t the right time. Sometimes I come back to books again after a while and really enjoy them.
I’ve just looked at The Tenderness of Wolves on Amazon and it has attracted loads of reviews, mostly 4s and 5s but also lots of lower ratings. I wonder if that’s the sign of a ‘good’ book – people either love it or hate it, but either way they have a strong reaction.
March 20, 2009 - 6:44 pm
Engleby was either loved or hated. I loved it.
March 25, 2009 - 8:23 pm
I wonder what you’d think about The Believers by Zoe Heller. I’ve just finished it and I must say I find it very hard to really like a book, however well-written, whose characters are so unpleasant and/or depressing.