Bats in your belfry… Zombies, ghouls and skeletons giving you goosebumps… Halloween is getting increasingly hard to ignore. Fan or not of fright night, leave the eye of newt and lizard’s leg to simmer in the cauldron then join us on a meander around 9 Halloween-themed words. Poetry is included – you decide whether that’s… Read more »
Take a moment and look at those trees. Admit it, you feel better already. Calmer, less gnarly, more in tune with the universe. (If you want to hug a trunk to your heart, who are we to judge?) ‘Your neck of the woods’… ‘can’t see the wood for the trees’… ‘dead wood’. If those expressions are anything… Read more »
Football commentators, usually ex-players of the beautiful game, often face criticism for using clichés. (A game of two halves, anyone?) At the end of the day, and when all’s said and done, why should they get all the flak – or have all the fun*? As England faces Colombia in Moscow, here’s a brief meander… Read more »
Recently I set myself a challenge: to blog once a week for the following 12 weeks. Eight blogs in seems a good moment to reflect… and offer some ideas about how to blog regularly. Never mind the quality, feel the width? Hardly. You’ll also be aiming to write better blogs, of course, getting more and… Read more »
Your business has plenty of anniversaries to celebrate, perhaps more than you realise: when you started out, moving to bigger premises, or maybe entering a new market… Just the opportunity to create a blog – keeping in mind, of course, your ideal clients and how you help them – and giving you the chance to… Read more »
You have the knowledge, experience and contacts in your industry and beyond. You understand the difficulties of your ideal clients and how you can help to overcome them… How about putting on a workshop, or series of workshops, to spread the word not only about your services, but the way you deliver them? What better… Read more »
From a Star Trek scriptwriter who talks elastic thinking and creativity… to how healthy eating can boost our mood — here’s a smorgasbord of events in or near London. Also vying for our time: how artificial intelligence keeps us from flagging in an art exhibition … or an event about the future, or otherwise, of the… Read more »
Instagram as a vortex of online pointlessness, the sceptic may say… An outlet for creativity and the chance to make fruitful connections, in business and beyond, runs a counter-argument. It’s about a year since I first posted a photo on Instagram. Since then not a day missed – an achievement of sorts – and for… Read more »
Three months into the working year, you may already feel like you’ve been fired out of a cannon. So perhaps some rest and relaxation is planned — or at least, wished for — over the Easter holidays as you catch up with family and friends. Whether you’re excited for or about the religious and cultural… Read more »
You arrive in a country, thinking you have a fair grasp of the language. Then along comes a word or expression that bamboozles, confuses — or perhaps just delights… Grab a magic carpet, prick up your ears and join us for a whistle-stop tour of eight linguistic lovelies. Botswana / Botswana: reetsa It’s a command that… Read more »
