Guestblog: How I became a landlady
I’ve been following the recent ‘how I became’ series with fascination; wondering whether to contribute one of my own, and if so, which. I’ve already written ‘how I became a trucker’ and the story behind becoming an ambulance driver isn’t terribly interesting; anyone who’s read Blood Sweat and Tea has already heard those yarns. Life [...]
3 years of being visible online, why you should join BT Tradespace
Happy anniversary to me or should that be to us? Today is the 3rd anniversary of me and our same day courier business being more visible online. OK, make that being found at last online. Today is the anniversary of day I discovered BT Tradespace and without them, I wouldn’t know any of the bloggers [...]
A night out with FourSquare and FourSquare for business
After seeing a friend become the ‘Mayor’ of her local butchers I decided to look into FourSquare a bit more and on Sunday I had the ideal opportunity as I was in London for the evening. FourSquare is an app for your iPhone and you “check-in” when you go to local places. I download the [...]
Have you heard the one about the woman driver?
A friend joked recently, via Facebook, about women and parking. My knee-jerk reaction surprised no-one who knows me; I issued an immediate challenge to a ‘reverse-off’ the next time we meet. Which I will naturally win. I have parked ambulances in London, stretch limos in Toronto and 18 wheeled tractor-trailers in Texas. So why am [...]
Do they know it is International Women’s Day?
I don’t know much about the history of International Women’s Day and I must say up until last year I had never so much as given it a second thought. So what happened last year? Well I got an unexpected call from a company called Prowse asking if I would join them and other women [...]
