Although this will sound Scrooge-like, I have to admit I don’t particularly like the Christmas holiday period. If it lasted a mere day or so, then I could probably come to love it. But from my perspective as a micro business and self employed, Christmas and its trappings hurt my turnover for a good quarter of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Liz Ayling’
Made unemployed by Christmas
Posted in Musings, Work-life balance, tagged Christmas, Liz Ayling, Penelope Trunk, self employment on 28 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why I won’t go to my son’s carol concert
Posted in Parenting, tagged carol concert, Liz Ayling, Malta, school concerts on 17 December 2008 | 1 Comment »
I won’t be going to my son’s Christmas concert tomorrow. Is it a crime? To all those well-meaning, school-policy-abiding parents, I guess it must be. Many a parent must have been chastised over the years by either child or spouse for not having managed to show up at the event. Meetings, overseas trips, office Xmas parties that just [...]
Blankets of warmth not snow for Xmas
Posted in Design, Living Home, tagged Add new tag, designer blankets, heirlooms, hip hotels, lambswool, Liz Ayling, Malta, Malta electricity bills, Melin Tregwynt, Wales, Welsh blankets on 16 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post follows on from my one of yesterday advocating thrift in Xmas present spending. If you don’t have time to rummage around flea markets in the next 9 days, or find that ideal retro bargain on eBay for under £10 (also euro 10 these days too), you are going to have to go for [...]
The £10 Xmas present and the heirloom
Posted in Design, Musings, tagged Add new tag, antiques, broccante, Christmas presents, DINKYs, flea markets, heirloom, Liz Ayling on 15 December 2008 | 1 Comment »
A few years back, I had some Australian friends living in London who were a DINKY (double income, no kids) couple. The wife worked for a merchant bank; the husband was riding the dotcom boom in some new media agency. They had plenty of disposable income to splash out with.
But, and here’s the rub of [...]
Offline Lessons in Word-of-Mouth Marketing
Posted in Malta, Online Living, tagged estate agents, Liz Ayling, Malta, sensara, word of mouth marketing on 10 December 2008 | 1 Comment »
Word-of-mouth-marketing is natural instinct. The birds and bees do it, passing on cat alerts and honey finds, through their own version of twitter and social networking. But you’d think it had been invented in the digital age for all the mentions it gets these days. There are even full-blown associations for it (WOMMA, for instance).
To see [...]
Gourmet ready foods for babies. Do we need them?
Posted in Parenting, tagged baby food, healthy baby meals, Liz Ayling, ready meals, thinking living, toddler meals on 11 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At first, I thought this sounded like a cool idea from a cool Swedish company. Really healthy, additive-free, organic baby foods in those nice little pop-in-the-microwave trays.
I came across the concept browsing Springwise, which showcases innovative start-ups. GAPA is a Swedish company founded by two Swedish mums who obviously care about what babies, their own included, get fed these [...]
