It’s been a busy day. I’ve done NEARLY all my daily tasks (posting this blog is one more off the list), but one I haven’t yet done is my 5 minutes’ keyboard practice. And now there’s a problem: the whole of Bramley has been plunged into darkness by a power cut. Luckily my friend Sarah […]
Continue readingI’ve just come off a call with Orna Ross, novelist and founder of ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors: we were recording the interview that will go out on 21 July as Episode 71 of The Extraordinary Business Book Club, and it is a belter. I meant to talk about the future of publishing but […]
Continue readingToday was village fête day: my husband was up at 5.30am to set up his bushcraft corner of the field (I slept on, only to be woken at 6.55am by a surreal phone call from him: ‘Can you bring the antlers from the hooks in the garage with you when you come down please, darling?’). […]
Continue readingOne of the things I love about hosting the podcast is that I get at least five ‘touches’ on the content: 1. when I’m preparing for the interview – reading the book, researching the business and the interviewee’s background, thinking about what will be interesting for listeners, preparing the questions; 2. during the interview itself, […]
Continue readingWhen computers talk to each other, 200 is the HTTP response status code equivalent of ‘Got it, thanks.’ It means the connection, the information request, has been successful. It’s expressed simply as ‘200 OK’. No fanfare. No drama. Just business as usual, nothing to see here, everything’s fine, move along. And that’s pretty much how […]
Continue readingI had an interesting conversation today with a fellow-runner today about cutural norms in different countries. One that particularly came to mind was escalator etiquette on the London underground, which is a particular obsession of mine. I am one of those people who get irrationally enraged at people who stand on the left – a […]
Continue readingI’ve been enjoying the simplicity of streaking: one blog and a run of at least a mile every day, no excuses, no fuss. They’re solid now – it would take a medical emergency to break that beautiful long run of ticks on the calendar. Once I got over 100 days I started to wonder what […]
Continue readingAre you still waiting for the secret of success, productivity, happiness? A significant – and significantly profitable – section of the publishing industry is given over to books promising to make us better versions of ourselves. I’ve now interviewed several of the authors in The Extraordinary Business Book Club. And what’s astonished me is how […]
Continue readingHappy 2017! Today’s blog is a guest post over at Birds on the Blog: http://birdsontheblog.co.uk/re-resolution/ This is for anyone who’s given up making New Year resolutions because they’re sick of breaking them… Think about it: where would you be now if you’d decided as a baby that because you’d fallen over the last 20 times […]
Continue readingFor one reason or another (a trampoline-park-related incident may have been involved), I didn’t actually run any of the races I’d signed up to this year. BUT at some point last month I realised that the Gutbuster, a fabulous muddy 10-mile/10-km race just up the road from us, was taking place on 31 December for […]
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