I’ve been reminded by a tweet this morning by Heather Bestel that last week when I invited you to share your home working hurrays I called it Thankful Thursday. Well, it’s Thursday again, it’s beautifully sunny, it’s the time of year I enjoy the most, and I’m fortunate to have a day without deadlines. My [...]
Further to my post last week about home working routines on bank holidays, I decided on a kind of half-way course – to do a post today but to make it a lighthearted follow-up to the piece on home workers’ pets. As well as the comments on the post, I received quite a few tweets. [...]
Amongst the recent home workers’ favourite things featured here were a couple of cats and watching birds in the garden. It’s started me thinking what the best pets for home workers are. I’m a cat person by nature, although I’ve been cat-deprived for a long time now since my elderly tabby and tortoiseshell departed this [...]
Ian Dicks is an illustrator and much more who lives in Lyme Regis and, with a partner, has just created Jurassic Coast Visitor, a guide both online and in print to that beautiful stretch of Dorset coastline. ‘I bought this little blighter at a garden centre… it’s a big green and red fly (I suppose). [...]
I wrote recently about 5 reasons to hate working from home and a lot of people seemed to identify with them all. But the best thing about home working is that you’re the one in charge, and so you can plan your life to minimise the pitfalls and make the most of the possibilities. Here [...]
San Sharma is online community manager and web editor at Enterprise Nation, the homeworking website, based at home in London. “Despite all of the Feng Shui advice I share with our readers at Enterprise Nation, I find myself working in the corner of my home office in a dimly-lit basement flat. “I came across this [...]
Isabelle Bano is a personal and professional development coach in London and has provided our first piece of technical home working kit: ‘It’s a great idea to blog about the things that home workers like. There are so many different little helpers that people like. The little soapstone Buddha head is very beautiful and looks [...]
Today’s home worker’s favourite come from Harriet Smart, who lives in Edinburgh and writes ‘historical and contemporary fiction that emphasizes warm and well-drawn characters against a background of world events and compelling settings’. She’s also the co-creator of the Writer’s Café software toolkit. The magnificent Alfie works as her office manager – rather a laid-back [...]
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 [...]
One of the major problems of working from home is that being in the same place all the time makes it very difficult to get any perspective on challenging issues and you can end up tearing your hair out. I speak from experience!
