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Favourite home worker things No 6

July 29, 2010 - 8:48 am

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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

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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 [...]

Workhub & coworking news

July 26, 2010 - 10:06 pm

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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 [...]

Favourite home worker things No 4

July 23, 2010 - 5:50 pm

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 [...]

3 ways to take a break without leaving your desk when you work at home

July 16, 2010 - 1:11 pm

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1. Hook up with fellow home workers and freelancers on Twitter At 11 am in the UK the hospitable San Sharma (Charmer?) of Enterprise Nation hosts #watercoolermoment, which has a daily topic for you to chew over. On Fridays you can eyeball each other on the video chat. I’ve recently also discovered #elevensestime, which I [...]

Would you let your kids plan your home working diary?

July 13, 2010 - 8:50 am

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The little Somerset town of Frome where we moved two years ago is a vibrant and creative place and its annual festival is growing every year. On Sunday I was delighted to take part in Writers and Publishers Day by running a workshop for writers who work from home. I had a very enjoyable and [...]

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