To DIY or Not to DIY, That is The (First) Question…
First I should say that my blog won’t just be about DIY, I’ll be bringing you news of new products to enhance your home, tips on how to makeover rooms and much more – but I wanted to start with some basic thoughts on making the decision about whether you should take on Home Improvement [...]
Are there circumstances in which corruption is justifiable?
Thursday 17 December 2009, I am in a cab in Uganda on my way to our family cemetery so I could leave flowers on my late father’s grave. We get stopped by a female traffic Cop and before she uttered a word the driver offers to buy her a soda! This is a by word [...]
1972 in 2009
An odd title for a blog you might think but this is precisely what I was doing on 15/12/09 in Uganda This day was especially busy and I was in and out of meetings the whole day, at 5 PM I had a free hour before my next meeting at 6:00PM. My phone rang and [...]
It's good to be Green
What a load of rubbish, or it would be if we couldn’t solve our problem of what to do with all our leftovers as we have never had a bin man (for those of you not familiar with the UK system means we get our rubbish collected either weekly or fortnightly). Like any house we [...]
I'm having a baby not giving up my life….
Like most women, when I first found out I was pregnant I wanted to tell the world. Unlike most pregnant women, my ‘world’ consists of thousands of people I hardly know, hundreds I know really well and a few close friends, along with thousands of people who know me but I don’t know them at [...]
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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