Have you ever noticed how work expands to fill a vacuum? Or how ludicrously productive you can be when you have a holiday looming at the end of the week? It seems as soon as “school’s out for summer” there is an incredible shot of productivity that shoots through the
Harsh but fair? There is a lot to be said about things getting lost in translation but this is my favourite at the moment. It seems the algorithms at Facebook have clocked that I’m a writer. What they haven’t clocked is that I’m a professional writer and have a very
Picture the scene… Sweltering hot day, the fizz flowing at a party to launch the new Nottingham Venues brand with 150 other guests in their stunning garden. Crazy golf, limbo dancing, stilt walkers, archery, wonderful food. The full works. Enter stage left, holding a business card…Robin Hood. Not just any
Readers of a nervous disposition, look away now. No really, I wouldn’t use THAT word, I mean the other one. The one that has dominated our headlines for a couple of years now. The thing is, I have it. Yep, I am writing this at about a quarter of my
Imagine my excitement last month when as a scholar of Arthurian romance (yep, that was part of my degree along with Philosophy) I was invited to join a Round Table. I could picture the scene, stone-flagged corridors leading to a sacred meeting space. Sconces on the wall (cream before jam?),
I was at a business breakfast yesterday in Nottingham, with the great and good of this fair city before they all headed off to Trent Bridge and THAT game! Not me sadly, I was on 5 deadlines! It was an event to herald the “Top 200” businesses in the
Carly Simon reminds us that “Nobody does it better” but did James Bond just get upstaged by an agent from deepest darkest Peru? Perhaps. The Paddington scene at the palace was a wonderful piece of film that will warm the hearts of even the most die-hard republicans (maybe) and has
Due to a combination of forward-planning, outsourcing and frankly, software sorcery, I am sending you this whilst I’m away for a week. Yep, on one of those holiday things people talk about but business owners often miss. You see, I wanted to flag something important, just in case you were
Remember when the world went into panic mode about GDPR? 25th May (today) back in 2018. Wowzers! Whilst well intentioned, it was hugely overblown and the response from “marketers” was tedious beyond measure and worse…they missed a golden opportunity. Or rather, a speckled pinkish one… I lost count of the