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 [...]
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 [...]
July 26, 2010 - 10:06 pm
Tags: Coworking, Jelly
Posted in Coworking, Jelly, Workhubs | 1 comment
The Workhubs Conference in June was a wonderful day spent listening to people from all over the UK who are committed to providing coworking space for home workers and freelancers, sometimes in difficult financial circumstances. It inspired me to write about the mutual benefits of Jelly and workhubs and you can see the results on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
