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There’s gold in them thar hills!
It’s one of the strangest feelings I’ve ever experienced, leaving work on my last day and stepping out into the sunlight. I wanted to fling my arms open and sing The Hills are Alive at the top of my voice and (metaphorically, you’ll be relieved to hear) skip all the way home, swinging my satchel [...]
An interview with Ruth Seba
In June 2011 we opened a small boutique in Korcula, on one of Croatia’s many islands. My husband is jeweler, practising the families traditional filigree jewellery skills. We wanted to open a shop that would allow customers to see first hand the work that goes into creating each of the pieces of jewellery he creates. [...]
Remembering Me
A short story by Liz Dew that she kindly allowed us to share with you… She could feel the bile rising from the pit of her stomach. It was a sensation she thought she had experienced many times before, but she could not be sure. No matter how hard she tried it was growing more [...]
An Interview with Wendy Wise
I started Facilitutors.com after I’d unsuccessfully tried to find a teacher of Italian. No luck with the tourist information offices, nothing on the internet and I wished that there were an adult education centre nearby as there had been in the UK. It then occurred to me that others might be trying to find courses [...]
Benefits + Expenses = Slave Labour? Or just avoiding long term mental health problems
There has been a lot of social media, newsprint and political debate in the past week over part of the Governments heralded Work Programme. The conclusion of the headlines seems to be that Tesco’s offer as part of the Work Programme was portrayed as slave labour. But is it? Personally, the important details seem to [...]
In her shoes: My descent in entrepreneurial hell
In her shoes is a series of anonymous posts from women in business, sharing their experience. In your comments you are asked to answer the question – What would you do in her shoes? My story began 9 months ago; it is a story of self-realisation, friendship, love and betrayal. After 11 years at home [...]
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