I write this post about this subject because it’s something I come across a lot and two of my most popular posts on the social media site LinkedIn attracted 1000s of impressions and many comments when I talked about it. As some of you will know I am a caravanner…

IF YOU ARE BEREAVED RIGHT NOW, I SEE YOU… The world knows that the UK has lost its Queen with the passing of Elizabeth II last week. If you are not in the UK, you will have no idea what it’s like to experience what this nation is feeling. Our main news channel, the BBC, has had wall to…

It was an August day in 1984 and I was walking to my school to collect my A level results, eagerly anticipating taking up my place at university to study English Literature or Medieval English. Joined by my best mates who had similar dreams — one was going to uni…

I’LL TEACH YOU HOW TO MAKE MONEY ON YOUTUBE…. Have you ever had one of those requests or offers. I had one recently from a woman I didn’t know. It was a friendship request so I had a look at her profile and it was all about building an online…

When you start your own business, one of the most challenging things, and probably one of the most unexpected is the reaction of family members and close friends. I’m not talking about immediate family who live in the same house as you — though there can be issues there. I’m…

I was bullied at school (Yr 7 in the UK) by two girls who took it upon themselves to make my life miserable. These girls were meant to be my friends, they were older than me and my mum felt having two girls walk me to and from school would really help my transition to secondary school back in the late 1970s. In those days in the UK, you had infants’ school, then junior school until you were 11 years old and then on to secondary school until 16 when you decided whether or not you wanted to get a job, or go into higher education.

THERE ARE SOME THANK-YOUs WHICH SPEAK A THOUSAND WORDS… I’ve don’t think I’ve written here before about how I value young people coming into my business on work experience and I try to take two a year — I’ve got another young person lined up for September 2022. Very quickly…