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Boatworking with Archie on the canal

Boatworking with Archie on the canal

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Archie Workman is one of the many wonderful home workers I’ve met on Twitter, when he tweeted to tell me that for part of each week he is a narrowboat worker! Archie is a business adviser and mentor to small companies and he mentioned that he entertains prospective clients onboard as a way of [...]
Entrepreneur or home business owner?

Entrepreneur or home business owner?

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Sometimes an idea will knock around inside my head for a while until I realise it would make a good subject for a blog post. Today it’s been drawn out by a conversation with my marketing consultant, Claire Habel. We were talking about being an entrepreneur and my immediate reaction was that I’m [...]
Home working neighbours

Home working neighbours

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We moved to the mill nine months ago and part of the pleasure of living here is the wildlife we spot from our windows – no need even to put on a coat and go outside! There are no sheep at the moment, they were moved after the ram had done his business, so we’re looking forward to their return with [...]
A bad day in the home office

A bad day in the home office

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Today has been a bad day, ‘one of those days’, when it seems everything you try to do goes bad and you achieve nothing. When you work with other people you can have a good moan and get some help. When you work at home you can’t get away from the frustration and anxiety about not being [...]
Home working good days, home working bad days

Home working good days, home working bad days

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Are you having a good day? Yesterday I had half and half. The first job on my list, to transfer some money online, should have taken seconds but the pages wouldn’t load. After several attempts I didn’t know whether the transaction had taken place at all or if I’d done it multiple times, which [...]
Work from Home Wisdom Facebook page

Work from Home Wisdom Facebook page

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So now you know I’m no expert on social media but one thing I am trying to do with the Work from Home Wisdom Facebook page is to create a useful resource for home workers. As with everything I do with social media, it’s not my own idea. I’ve copied it from The BIG Jelly Facebook page I created [...]
Moving home office

Home working in Greece

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Today’s guest post is by Kalliopi and Diona, an electrical and computer engineer and freelance translator, two work-at-home Greek mothers who got to know each other online. Finding out that they were both working from home, they decided to join forces and create a blog, Mammas Work At Home, [...]
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Good habits for home working

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Today’s guest post is by Sebastien Powell of MessageBase, a telephone answering and virtual office service that helps any freelancer or small business look like a pro (and was one of the supporters of The BIg Jelly). Seb works from home himself and knows how easy it is to fall into bad [...]
Home working weather from hell

Home working weather from hell

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I hate this cold, snowy weather. Hate it, loathe it, detest it. I’ve been longing for a mild winter for several years, but British weather stubbornly refuses to deliver. I know that home workers are supposed to be ideally placed to coast smugly through severe weather with no disruption to their [...]

Home working style page

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Hurray, it’s finally time for A and I to reveal the new page on Home working style, which came about as a result of the huge response I received in comments and on Twitter to the post Home working wardrobe. There is a stereotype of home workers not caring about what they wear, but obviously [...]

The final chapter

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I came away from Mike Harris’s session on creating a perfect pitch last week with a copy of his book Find Your Lightbulb. I find that reading books by people who have achieved amazing things is a good way of keeping up motivation levels when you’re working from home and not in day-to-day touch [...]

Lightbulb moments

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You know how sometimes you stumble upon some information or somebody makes a chance remark, and all of a sudden you have a completely different take on a situation or problem? It happened to me recently when planning this month’s Frome Jelly and realising it fell on the day before my [...]

How did you come to be working from home?

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Graham Cornfield (what a wonderful late summer name!) made a remark in his comment on yesterday’s post (What makes home workers happy) that got me thinking. He said about his home working lunchtime – ‘Wow! I wouldn’t have dreamt of this six months ago.’ It made me realise we all have our own [...]
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