Tips on homeworking – never housesit for carp

Looking after your neighbour's fish during your busiest working week can be shoal-destroying. Fins can only get better...
By |August 1st, 2011|Flexible working, Freelancing, Homeworking, Working mums|Comments Off on Tips on homeworking – never housesit for carp

Freelance daily tea dilemma sorted

Tips on the many ways tea can get a freelancer through the day.
By |April 14th, 2011|Flexible working, Freelancing, Journalism, Writing|Comments Off on Freelance daily tea dilemma sorted

Mum turns to Facebook in fight against spiders

If you're suffering from an influx of spiders-of-unusual-size, it's time to arm yourself for battle. Anti-spider sprays and light sabre vacuums are my weapons of choice - an arms-length alternative to the glass-and-card approach.
By |September 16th, 2010|Bug busting, Flexible working, Working mums|Comments Off on Mum turns to Facebook in fight against spiders

Mums urge recruiters to remove flexible working barriers

Outdated 9-5 thinking is preventing mums from working flexibly and employers from enjoying the benefits flexible working brings.
By |March 25th, 2010|Flexible working, Journalism, Media, Recruitment, Working mums|3 Comments

Home working: can you hack it?

The economy is creaking slowly upwards but it is not out of the woods yet. And that means more people joining the flexible working revolution – even if it’s involuntarily.

Taking redundancy and becoming self-employed will be tempting and the idea of working from home possibly even more so.

I did it seven years ago and I […]

By |January 27th, 2010|Flexible working|3 Comments