Inconspicuous nonconsumption

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]