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10 tips to working from home when you’re used to being in the office
Many people are finding themselves working from home for the first time in a long time, or even ever! Adjusting to this situation, which has occurred very quickly could take some work. The children may be home from school and your partner may also be around more. There could be a lot of distractions, but…
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Sunday Church Children’s Talk
Today, I have been promoting my Sunday Church children’s talk. I was due to lead an all-age worship service for the baptist church I attend, but it was decided fairly early on that it would move online. With my daughter’s help, I recorded both a children’s talk and a sermon bit. I offer this…
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10 Facts that China have shared with the World about Coronavirus so far
The Chinese government have shared a document that explains what first happened when coronavirus or COVID-19 was discovered as a rapidly transmittable disease back in December 2019. They shared the lessons they learned and compared the disease to two outbreaks of virus that have happened within living memory: SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) in 2002-3…
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Blogs Interrupted
UK March 2020 Day 14 30 Day Blogging Challenge Things have gone quiet round here. I’m still hoping to publish 30 blogs, but not in 30 days. The world seems to have gone mad: university students are being sent home, IT people are being told to work from home, schools are shutting and everyone is…
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Secrets of Stronger Fiction – more realistic bad guy/girl
Please note there are some spoilers in this blog post in the interest of creating stronger fiction. Many adult stories do not contain a definitive bad guy.girl. In many children’s stories you will find a baddie character – someone who sees it as their life goal to thwart the main character and make their life…
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Is there ever a time when a freelancer should work for free?
I came across a job website tonight and read their information on becoming a freelancer. I was shocked to see that they advocated taking a first job and doing the work for free. I am a firm believer that at no point should a freelancer ever work for free. Nor do I believe that they…
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Posting to all social media channels helps promote your blog
Consistently Post across all your Social Media Channels When you post a blog and press ‘publish’, what then? Close the laptop with a sigh of relief and go do another chore? Move onto the next project? Or do you think of promoting your words across channels? Do you use social media for leisure or business…
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New Business Expectations vs Reality
What can a new business owner expect? How did you expect things to be when you started your new business? Did you expect it to be effortless, fun, empowering? Was failure part of the plan? What about clients who don’t want to pay? Every person who starts a new business, has an idea in their…
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New Business Owners, Health and Origin of Words – the best of my first 9 days in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge
I have thoroughly enjoyed testing and strengthening my blogging muscle during the first 9 days of the 20 day blogging challenge. It’s strange how, when you really want to get something done, you can. Normally I am staring at my blog, thinking, ‘I know I should be writing about something – but what?’ Yet, here…
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Origins of the English Language: where did the words ‘ business’, ‘writer’ and ‘freelance’ originate?
Finding out the original meaning and origin or etymology of common words is fascinating if you enjoy playing around with language. The language we know as English has developed and evolved over centuries, taking into account the languages and words of immigrants and conquerors until it became the language it is today. It is still…
